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Hi, all, sharing a project just completed. ========================================== Santa Fe Zebra Stripe FM H12-44 in N scale ========================================== Santa Fe 565 - Fairbanks Morse H12-44 Switcher (Phase IV) Modeled and photographed by Randy Gustafson...

Hi, team, In general, I'd suggest the following. Just my 2 cents worth. Pls get many opinions and then choose what works best for you. 1. If you're after best possible appearance, and have locos/rolling stock that can work on it, and have some model railroading experience so that you...

Hi, all, I just found the following information over on the US Department of Transportation Freedom of Act web site: http://www.dot.gov/foia/foia_contacts.htm From the Federal Railroad Administration's portion of the above web site, I cut/pasted the info below, seems it will be of...

Hi, all, I just found the following information over on the US Department of Transportation Freedom of Act web site: http://www.dot.gov/foia/foia_contacts.htm From the Federal Railroad Administration's portion of the above web site, I cut/pasted the info below, seems it will be of...

Post for Trainboard and Gauge Hi, all, I've been very busy and no time to be posting to the multiple forums. However, a few minutes available today, so here's a few posts for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! ================== The former ATSF's Peavine Line is still heavily...

Hello, all, Here are some photos of the Kato Tokyo showroom (almost all N scale models and layouts), taken during business trip to Japan in June 2002. You can see more (12 photos in all) at a Community Webshots album. The layouts and the dioramas are mostly N scale...

Some historical info on Atlas SP SD9 To be exact, the Atlas SD9 #4341 and #4409 are SD9E's, which are early 1970's rebuilds of the original SP SD9. You can tell which ones are SD9E's because they are numbered in the 4300-4451 number range. From Joseph Strapac's classic 1997 book 'SP...

Atlas SP SD9 photos Hello, all. My Atlas SP SD9's arrived yesterday. Here's photos below. (you can go to my Railimages Gallery, photos 59-67 on the 2nd page, and download the bigger version of the images if you want). www.railimages.com/gallery/johnsing or...

Some more Santa Fe Warbonnet F7 shots: Classic Santa Fe F7 A-B-B-A set exits a mythical tunnel on Raton Pass in New Mexico, USA, under a scorching summer sun: Closeup of the lead three units: Back on my little 4' x 4' layout, rounding the bend coming into Glendale Junction...

Here's a couple more shots: Kato Santa Fe F7s after installation of short shank Unimate couplers: I also finished the scenic integration of the Kato Unitrack into the scenery on the layout, you can see a little of that here also. For comparision, showing the Kato Santa Fe F7's with...

Santa Fe Zebra Stripe GP7s It's 1956 on Tehachapi Pass, and ATSF Geep #726 leads a lashup of Zebra Stripe GP7s as they pass a set of Southern Pacific helpers in the siding at Woodford: From another angle, the GP9/GP7 lashup is passing under the California Highway 58 bridge near...

Hi, cpNscale, In order to get multiple images in one post, you just have to know how to key in the write command syntax within your post. Go here, read what it says, even though it's for the Atlas Forum, the syntax used is the same for almost any chat room forum that we commonly use...

clarification of what is the 'mountain cap'? Hi, cpNscale, I think your scene looks better with the mountain cap on the 2nd level. That serves to break up the scene and hides the fact there is a loop and a corner there. Future photography at that point will also be enhanced as the...

Scott, great layout and great pictures.

The handles are to allow easier handling of the module. (smile) John

Hi, all, As some of you know, for the past 15 months I've been working on a little 4' x 4' N scale layout, depicting (roughly) a couple of scenes from the early 1960's Santa Fe's Peavine Line branch off the transcontinental main from Ash Fork, Arizona to Phoenix, Arizona. Here's a little...

Here's the little layout the 'Follow Train' shots made on Hi, all, Here's the little 4' x 4' layout that these 'Follow a Train' shots were made on. The (digital) camera can really lie in a positive way (smile).

Santa Fe in Phoenix, AZ A nice URL on Santa Fe in Phoenix, AZ, that fellow interested Santa Fe fan pointed me to with very nice writeup on the Peavine Line route, check it out: http://www.qstation.org/atsf/phoenix.html John Sing singj@us.ibm.com San Mateo CA 'puppybig' on the...

In support of Peavine Line modelers of RRs in Arizona, You can see some great shots of Arizona desert railroads at Ted Ellis' Algomacentral web site: http://algomacentral.railfan.net/desert.htm http://algomacentral.railfan.net/SantaFe.htm In particular, here's one from his web site...

Research on the Peavine Hello, all, I've been doing a bit of research on the Peavine Line over the past few days. Here are some URLs to some great shots of one of the signatures of the Peavine Line: Hell Canyon Bridge near Drake, AZ (about 40 miles north of Prescott History of Hell...