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Jim, I haven't checked to see what email address you are using in public on forums and things, but if you are using your home address - big mistake. Many of us have set up hotmail (or name your favourite flavour) address for public consumption. I have removed my "real" home address from...

I never know what space to say I have, as either way I say it is a lie. I have a 13 foot 10 inches long layout, that is 7 feet wide, but down the other long wall half way down it opens up to 9 1/2 feet wide. So do I have a 7 foot wide layout or a 9 1/2 foot wide layout? Its in a room that was...

Ron, You're in the valley somewhere if I recall. Anyways, back to the cold and wet - hope the weather turns.

Paul, I can remember a couple of years ago at trainboard that you were talking about how you couldn't publish an article on your layout in North America because it had been in other mags; I'm gathering you were happy to discover that wasn't so. Kudos to you as your hard work and talent...

I wrote this thread about two months ago and posted it in a number of forums, I thought I had done it here but I couldn't find it. Some one asked for anyones experience of AMI roadbed so I thought I would copy and paste this in here. My apologies to those who have already read it: I...

I have just copied and pasted this email: Greetings, You are receiving this e-mail as a member of RailImages.com. If it is unwanted, please reply and let us know. A few months ago, our RailImages.com site was shut down by the host. Apparently our traffic and bandwidth was too much for...

Railimages at www.trainboard.com is a free picture hosting site. Many will store their pictures there so they can post them in other forums. So for example, the Atlas forum hosts the Sunday Nite Photo Fun in which many post pics of their layouts, scratchbuilding, kitbashing, painting and...

As I write this 7 September, Sunday, 12 of the 18 bridges have now been destroyed.

8 are affected now.

This is a story that appeared in the Vancouver Province newspaper today: Friday, September 05, 2003 Province Newspaper KELOWNA -- Ken Campbell compares his love affair with the Kettle Valley Railway trestles to marriage. "It was love at first sight. It's really a special place,"...

I posted this write up in a number of different forums and a number mentioned the hardness of the water as a contributing factor for a requirement to using "wet water" or a water/alcohol combo. I would suggest to those who are nervous about the hardness of your water, to do the 6 inch test I...

I am an N scaler, but have done all my ballasting on a friends layout, which is HO. I do not consider I am giving you the best technique, but I do know I am giving you the cheapest one that works. Like many of you, I've had problems when ballasting. And, I've read lots of threads from folks...

Digitrax is the most popular system in North America, and Lenz is the most popular in Europe. Then there are the rest of the systems. I own Digitrax but I wouldn't hesitate to get a Lenz. In Vancouver, BC, Canada, you are smarter to stay with Digitrax because 95 % of the dcc systems here in...

Your room is so large you don't need a nolix, you can use a helix. If I had this room from scratch, I would place the nolix in the upper right hand area at the right end of the room. I would make the nolix area L shaped. The remainder of the layout moving to the bottom left, then up the...

Check these links out. In them I discuss the concept of a "Nolix" - basically an area that is "no helix." I won't repeat the definition since these threads go into the concept. These threads will take you to www.trainboard.com into the layout design forum where I'm a moderator. Tell me the...

You are probably one of three people. The first, the great majority, are asking themselves "what is the Kettle Valley Railway?" The second are those who have heard of it, but don't really care that much about it. And then there is the third group, those guys and the occasional gal who are...

The latest out is that lightning hit the power plant in New York and set off the circumstances to shut so much down. Here's pulling for everyone affected, hoping health and safety are secured.

Good work. After having done some scratch building, I know how satisfying it is to have your work done, have done it well, and then own the bragging rights.

Paul, Good to have you back. Hope the harmonica playing is well too.

From Vancouver, I will echo the vote for Peco. I have bought a lot of Peco turnouts "used" from one of the LHS's out here. I would attach alligator clippers to the track when I got home and tested that they worked. My LHS will take them back if I return them quickly. To clean them up...