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All is good - he delivered poorly on his initial promise and was willing to make up for it, somewhat anyway, with re-shipping at his own expense. You've got it at 1/2 the price you were willing to pay and the few weeks extra wait time is probably not worth the stress of it all. Poor water, not...

Layout Goals: 1. Have fun with the kids - planning, building, weathering, operating. 2. HO scale semi-prototype of our local scene - UP with local yard with moderate switching and several industry jobs and freights that drop and add cuts of cars at the yard. 3. Some fictional through...

Thanks for posting this as everyone' comments are so helpful. More than anything, I must agree with tacking down the track, mocking up the industries and testing the operations - how do the turnouts fit? I planned for three cars but could only fit two because of clearance on the next door...

The plan is to document the home layout from start to probably-never-finished. I'll start out with a few pictures 'cause I think we like those most. I'll put a few words along the way to avoid a major dump in the beginning.

Found pictures on this great website: http://www.trainweb.org/dbrr/mow/GREX.dumptrain.html

Google comes through again: The DUMP TRAIN is a high-speed aggregate delivery system consisting of 15 articulated cars with a conveyor system under the hoppers on each car. The 16th car is the transfer car that contains the power to run the system and a 50-foot unloading boom. The unloading...

Anyone ever seen this train unloading?

UP is putting in new sidings in my area and yesterday a stange train pulled into the area. It has a conveyor contraption at each end of 40 or so open top hopper looking cars. I can't get close to get a good look but it appears the cars must have a live conveyer underneath that catches ballast...

Thanks for the inside scoop. Grand crossing looks like a great railfan spot. Can you stand on the car bridge just above the crossing? How many trains a day and what railroads go through? I'll be going back through this coming Thursday and may have to make some more time to eyeball what's...

One more pic They really plowed into the ground - did the ground give way or is this what happens when a big heavy car runs off the rails?

I shot this pic in early September in La Crosse, WI. I'm not sure what happened but I bet it took some heavy equipment to clear things out. The main office at the yard was just out of view to the right - tough to have an audience on this day I bet.

I've recently moved back to MN and bought a house that came with a nice room for trains - 11 x 20 is what I'm using for the layout. I've completed the bench work, subroadbed, laid the track (ho code 83) and have the 6 track yard done except for the turnouts on the far end. I tried to keep...

Don't forget viewing pleasure I like to look at model railroads from the same perspective as I see the prototype - down low. This stinks for a working height though. My current project has a planned table height of about 50 inches. I question the logic though since the vast majority of time...

We've been in SD for a year and a month or so now and finally the train bug has bitten me again. I'm looking at something I can put in the garage and and take down when necessary. I think I could fashion some "shelves" along the walls and some module type things and I can have trains running...

I love them but like nearly everything, it takes a few mistakes to learn the knack of installing them. I use Atlas' RightTrack to create the planned curve with easements, etc. Then I use the "parallel track" tool to create another track just inside or outside my the curve I want. Then I...

Here's a technique I used a few weeks ago - we live in the country and our water is heavily laden with mangenese (spelling?). I set up a chicken waterer one time and let the water run very slowly into the plastic container - it slowly trickled over the sides and left rust-looking streaks...

Awesome. I hope to attempt similar some day. Can't wait to see the progress.

No, HO, but I'm thinking maybe some N-scale stuff would be great.

We're just back from two days of house hunting (to rent). We rented a 2-door convertable for $40/2 days and buzzed throughout Poway and Carlsbad. We settled on a house in Carlsbad a few miles from the beaches and very near a park and nature area. My wife is warming up to the move. There...

Honest to goodness, I looked at a $200,000 run double-wide with crap strewn all about in a dusty, dirtly crappy neighborhood 20 miles outside of San Diego. I also looked at a $550,000 pre-fab! Great view but it was still a pre-fab. We'll be renting.