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Hats off to Rich! Thanks for commenting! As has been said, your work is very noteworthy and inspiring (as mentioned earlier, I keep copies of these cars for ideas and for a goal to shoot for). No airbrush? Cool. Mine clogged shortly after I got it and I haven't had any luck fixing it...

We put my son's Thomas the Tank Engine and Annie and Clarabelle on the track, but that's about as British as it gets. Nonetheless, welcome!;)

I have both on my layout. All the Pecos were replacements of Atlas that I couldn't get to work flawlessly. I have about 5 pecos and 20 atlas now. My next expansion will be all Pecos - they have such a firm closure you never have to worry about them. On my Atlas turnouts, I throw the ground...

Holy freaking cow! I kept some pics of that car for weathering ideas - I didn't see what it ended at. All right, lets get the kids, some paint, some brushes - we're gonna pay for college even if we can only get a 1/4 of that per car. Wow, hats off to the artist - do you think he might...

$76 now, not $172 - if it $172 I'll hire an artist and make a business out of this. P.S. This is what I love about eBay especially on custom stuff like this - access to a big market. I just sold several engines I had in a big lot and over 500 people viewed them and I got just about what I...

This car is now at $75 on eBay! Wow!

I frequently search e-Bay for "weathered ho" to get ideas for weathering and to watch for ideas on structures as well. There are two sellers who seem to weekly put up weathered HO stock and get nearly $50 a car! I've attached a photo - their work looks pretty awesome, but what do you think?

It will help a little if you tell what things you'll be soldering most with the iron, etc. Thanks.

Wow, great memories - thanks for sharing.

Also, this is a fraction of the total yard - it will fill much of the outside perimeter of a 12 by 12 room and have minimum radius curves of 26". I like to run long cars (car carriers, TOFC, etc.) and want to avoid derailments, thus the long stretches to avoid any "S" curves. Still hoping...

What I failed to show is that the drill track is making it's way along the door jamb (30" long rock wall - old basement) and then into the corner of the room. This outside corner just about hits the middle of the first curve between the first two turnouts.

I'm expanding into another room and hope to make it mostly yard and staging. It's HO, code 100, atlas built with #4 turn outs. I'm looking for a fast and operationally sound transition from the yard drill track to up to 10 yard and staging tracks. I've fiddled with many designs and have...

Wow. I just parked my Athearns. Makes the price we're paying for the Protos and Katos seem less steep when you look at the effort it takes to get them to run like they should. I doubt I'll ever purchase another Athearn engine - the new AC4400 has me tempted, but I'm guessing it still...

My trains run predominately through vast expanses of plywood on foam road bed - guess that makes it freelance at this point.