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I was going to suggest painting your benchwork before you get too far. Help keep moisture and humidity in/out. Your work looks fantastic!

Where did you get those trees? They look identical to the home made ponderosa pines on our club layout. Jas

You can post them at my photo album site. It will automatically shrink the photo down to be 150KB or less so that it is bandwidth friendly. http://album.boche.net/ Then click the "upload" button. Jas

My 12 pack of Athearn Genesis BNSF maroon Trinity hoppers came last week. It's a good thing they came boxed nicely in packaging because I was drooling all over them when I saw them. I still haven't unboxed them yet. I want to finish ballasting my layout first and then clean my track and...

This is a constant work in progress quick reference guide on DCC stuff that I use. Maybe it would be of use to you. It's hand for me because I'm tired of looking in 3 different Digitrax books for DCC information. I just got a new hand held throttle and will need to add some information...

I needed a scale MPH calculator today. I know someone did one before and there was one or two floating around on the internet but I couldn't find them so I made my own in Microsoft Excel. It includes a scale MPH calculator for HO gauge, N gauge, and also "custom gauges" where you fill in...

I needed a scale MPH calculator today. I know someone did one before and there was one or two floating around on the internet but I couldn't find them so I made my own in Microsoft Excel. It includes a scale MPH calculator for HO gauge, N gauge, and also "custom gauges" where you fill in...

Yep. Perfect order. I know this place has some customer service issues if you have to call them on the phone and deal with them (because it's very hard to understand their English), but their prices on some stuff are hard to beat. The other customer service issue I had with them...

I bought my Atlas code 83, bulk box of 100 pieces from WWW.AHOBBYCIRCLE.COM http://www.ahobbycircle.com/atlas4.html Cost is $1.99/ea stick. That's the best deal I've found.

Thanks for that link. I'm going to read up on it.

I agree that there could be a slight mainline jam but I would be accepting of that. Many times on the prototype, mainlines are not clear causing mainline traffic to stop to wait for an all clear signal. If I wanted to design the mainlines so that they could run continuously around in a circle...

Shown in the drawing below is my track plan as it is currently constructed. I question the switching area in the YELLOW area. During switching operations in the YELLOW area, I think one or more run-arounds will be necessary. I've got areas on the layout where I can perform runarounds. These...

Re: Panoramic train room I took several pictures in my train room and then used a program called PixMaker (http://www.pixaround.com/) to stitch them all together into a panoramic view.

For those that might be interested, I went railfanning today just outside of downtown St. Paul along the Mississippi river and the bluffs on Childs Road. The spot I camped at for an hour was along several tracks that lead into the humping yard and CP Rail's engine shops. I thought for sure for...

I don't have any rolling stock. I model power transfers.... LOL.. just kidding I have 43 locos and 200 rolling stock, a lot of it just isn't visible on the pictures I posted. Some of my rolling stock you can see in the laundry room section of the tour. Matthyro, I took several...

looking good!! is that a Z scale layout I see in the middle of the HO layout?

Tileguy, yes those are Duluth Missabe & Iron Range locos. I am in Minnesota. jkristia I took several pictures in my train room and then used a program called PixMaker (http://www.pixaround.com/) to stitch them all together into a panoramic view. Jas

I got a few requests from MAC users who aren't able to view the PC version of what I posted. Here's the version for MAC users - open the link in your web browser. The .jar plugin is provided. http://www.boche.net/trains/macusers/ Jas

Hi Clerk, sorry, What I showed in my original post is ONLY for PC users, however, I believe I can make it work for MAC users as well because I can turn it into web browser version for you which will come with the plugin you need for your browser. Check back on this thread in about 15-20...