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I have to work sat and sun. All not lost, work at a tool rental place, get to play with the tools,and fix them.

Great work guys, mag is professional quality.

I work on the weekends, but I manage to make la practice track with road bed and try the different methods of ballasting and find the one I feel comfortable with. I have lot of brass snap track and can get all of scrape 2 x 4's I need and practice.

I know what you mean. Life is like a road, can be smooth or can be bumpy and full of surprises and when you think your ahead bam the car, house, doctor,etc, etc.... I use to be a field service engineer for a medical equipment company, did I have many a day shot down in flames...Whose is me...

Today is Sunday I have to be at my job. Tonite if time permits I'll try to do alittle work and run operations.

Hi Snowbound, Either ho or n, pick which one is right for you. Design a layout that would give you hours of enjoyment. Running operation gives you alot of possiblities for industries. If you have the room then go for were you can run long trains, for me I am limited to space in my basement. Pick...

It seems graffiti is way of life, its wrong. I live near the Browns yard, Sayerville, NJ and I see the cars covered in them. I model present day and will use certain cars with various coverages. I seen in the train shop graffiti decals which I plan to buy and try doing by hand, practice on cars...

I am ready to ballast, what I plan to do is to make up length of track with the type of road bed I am using and try the various methods you guys mention about, decide and practice till I feel comfortable. toolman

Bob, when I planned my layout which is flat and point to point. I have a small finish basement and wanted to keep the size reasonable. I bought that Atlas software... what awaste, didn't know was coming or going. I bought a template, looked at the model train magazines and drafted up a track...

Index cards Brakie, good to hear you. I like to experiment and give try with your system. I have an industry called the Steel Drum co, the in and out bounds come from various places and go to other various places.

:wave: HI everyone. I am new to the gauge. My layout I run operations using a simple card system. The card is a 3 x 5 index card. I use postits for the routing, interchange to yard to what industry, remarks, where the car came from and to what industry and contents of the car. Spotting I use...

:wave: I just want to say hello to everyone, I am new to the gauge. I model in ho, present day, of cr,csx,ns cause I live right by the camden and amboy secondary and the browns yard in sayerville,nj. My layout is point to point, on 3 2ft x 4ft sections, with a interch and yard, 4 industries, 16...