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Hey, narrow gauge railroads made it into the newspapers!!! There is an article in the 3/28 Christian Science Monitor about them, with a link to a narrow gauge site. The url is: http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/03/28/fp1s1-csm.shtml Just some information... Dick

I model in HO, and the radii are going to be 28 and 26 inches. I wasn't aware that Peco made curved frogs...that is where I'm having the biggest problems, how to make them. I guess I'll have to get the Walther's catalog out and check them, and then go visit the local hobby shop. Thanks...

Ok, everyone, I've done one of my usual things...if ANYONE out there can do something, well, I think I can to. So, I've come up with a nice track plan, that even fits into the area I have. My problem: I need several curved turnouts. Of course, I planned on handlaying these...only I find that...

Gee, it appears that someone has held a government budget position, with math like that!!! Dick

coupled up to the little Lionel engine....

good....

Andy, a diode will drop about 1 1/2 volts, and only that amount, any time its in a circuit. By going across the diode, you can use that voltage difference between the two ends to light a lamp. So, a 1 1/2 volt lamp will be on full bright as soon as there is more than that voltage across the...

which is REAL close to...

which by now had started turning into an oozy, gooey....

it still had to deal with the blowfish guts and they...

I don't know how many people know of this show on cable, but it took me some luck to find it. Its on the History Channel, and here in central Iowa, its on from 4 to 5 AM Monday mornings. (Thank God for VCR's!!!!) This past week, they had a show about the development of steam engines, and had...

Thank you, for the warm welcome Shamus. I knew I'd seen the name "Badger Creek" somewhere, and I found the Model Railroading article about your layout. That is a beautiful trestle!! Now, I did get lucky, and I found the articles I was talking about. In the July, 1999 issue of Model...

About ballast...in searching for an article in MR (Oct,1950), I came across a little "tip" about ballast. You have to remember that this is for tinplate track, probably not real good for code 55 on scale ties: "I use sand mixed with flour and enough water to make a paste as a tinplate roadbed...

Virginian, I haven't found the article yet, but I DID find one on hand-laying turnouts that I had been looking for. I also found one that may interest you-it shows one person's construction of a mine building, and associated trackwork. Don't worry, I'll keep looking, I just thought of another...

...and the little Lionel train can't make it...

I'm new here...just managed to find this by following links, and really enjoy what I read here. Now, to the topic at hand....animation. I have several yrs worth of old MR--some back to the early '50s and all of the '60s...and they have a lot of articles on animation. Some of the ones I...