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Bending a brass tube (of a number of them, to have the end a bit thinner), to get a post which hangs above the road and is on the ground on one side (a bit like a street lantern) A few square/rectangular/triangular styrene rods (does that go together?). If you want an open construction, you...

Well, I've been busy aquiring some of the basic material needed, such as tracks and so on. Even laid my hands on an unsightly Piko loco to cannibalize for parts. Construction will start shortly. In the meantime, may I present the latest version of the trackplan: (The top and bottom level are...

Heh, so basically the solution is to replace the turnouts by fancy turnouts with well-functioning powered frogs. :)

It is Russian. Interestingly, many of the other languages which use cyrillic letters have a few own characters which will help recognising them. (and about 90-95% of all cyrillic writing on the web is in Russian. In a way not dissimilar to the abundance of English on the web)

It might work, but you should be very careful not to cause a short cirquit...

Maybe it's a bit silly, but came across this, and wanted to share with you. http://legnangel.livejournal.com/564026.html

Small apartment sized. Whoa..that's a lot of space then. Oh, wait. :) Calculating percentage: horizontally you move 100 units. Percentage is the number of units you go up/down within that same distance. Probably a little bit more straightforward to do with the metric system. Example: over a...

Chris' solution looks like the simpler one from the description. But that seems to imply only one controller, so the two trains would run synchronously. But something I had in mind would be the following: Controller one, connected to catenary and rail 1. Controller two, connected to rail 2 and...

Already many, many years I've been wondering about this, but have never dared to ask, but just to show my ignorance: Is is possible to have two trains moving independently on the same track if one is fed through the track and one gets it's juice through a catenary? And this, of course, without...

The comment about long distance trains wasn't about their frequency. I don't have any hard data on hand, but there may well be some lines where there's no daily service, but as far as I can tell, the trains run on time and the material seems to be in an adequate condition, which in my opinion...

The springs seem to be metal, but fairly worn. Everything can be moved by hand, but that's many times the force the spring would apply on it, so that doesn't mean that much. On a bright note, with some luck I'll get a replacement, at least for the one of which the mechanism is entirely...

Thanks for the help. Bending back the rail went smoothly, so that one got saved. One nasty detail is that the throwing mechanism is molded as one piece with the sleepers, and the cover isn't meant to be removed, so detaching it is a bit tricky. As for three of the five switches of the lot...

I hope this is the right place for this question. Allright, cheapskate that I am, I bought a number of second hand turnouts, simple, handoperated ones. (Minitrix, with a fairly large box next to it with the mechanism in it) When I tried whether they worked as they should, I found out, that the...

As for the rest of the rail service, I think that's one of the aspects which has taken a step back since Soviet times. While the commuter trains around Riga were in heavy use (used them a few times), it seems that long distance train traffic is in a fairly sorry state these days. This is...

Yep. If it weren't for the huge Russian minority, I'd say, that in about ten years, the country would be near indistinguishable from Finland economically and maybe also culturally. The cities are westernizing at a great pace, the countryside does lag behind though (but that's something you can...

Toured around the baltics a bit so I thought I'd share a few pictures I managed to take. And I apologise for being a lousy photographer. First two: Riga. Third and fourth: Tallinn Fifth - Tallinn trolleybus depot.

If you have some kind of visual obstacles, like woods or hills, then urban and industrial features can be located fairly close to each other without getting a too crowded look on the layout. However, if you decide to opt for very open fields, you'll probably need to leave more space in between...

Yep, I've seen the redstarrailways website, nice stuff there. Might contact Chris eventually. And that Japanese layout looks awesome. Will certainly look for that magazine article.

Then you might also know this one. Not as impressive: 1153m long, and only 52m high. But it was finished in 1916, so you could use it for your Epoch II layout. Didn't find a good aerial photograph of it on the web. Best to see it in person though.

Hmm.. instead of having sand paper as track cleaner, why not mount a graphite dispenser (pencil) under the car (I believe I read about using that to clean tracks to improve electical conductivity) -Norm