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Thought I'd finally get to posting a few pics of what I've been doing. The clapboard sided building is my first scratch building N gauge attempt, and also the first with styrene...which I really, really, really like working with. The building is all evergreen texture stuff, the windows & doors...

Greetings all:D Haven't tried postings pics yet, so here goes….photos of the Ffestiniog RR, Wales, UK, I shot last summer. Thought many of you might be as fascinated as I was. The loco is a Fairley designed double bogie, narrow gauge, originally coal fired one...absolutely spectactular, and...

I love it when a plan comes together. Congratulations! ________ Harpo

I think it was Dover Press published several books of HO buildings a number of years ago; one was a commercial downtown area, which included a movie house, and about a half dozen stores and a passenger station. They also had a book of Victorian houses, and one or two others. I tried reducing to...

If you look at the underside of the flex track, you will see gaps cut only under one rail in the tie molding. This is so that when you curve (bend) the track the ties will curve along with it. Without the gaps, you have a section of straight track, which cannot bend. The side with the gaps...

Good point, I hadn't thought about that. I guess I came at it from another angle...if the sliding rail is on the inside of the curve, the tie spacing will not increase or spread out the way it would if the sliding rail were on the outside. Maybe not an issue if one were using code 55, but with...

Don' t forget, also, Half-bay, Amazon.com, as sources especially for the Kalmbach paperback books; you can often find those for under 5.00, which is a whole lot better than 15.00 or 20.00. Harpo

Greetings to all Have been thoroughly enjoying this forum for well over a year now. Unhappily I must ask a great favor from as many of you as possible, as I put the MRailroading at rest for a while. After three rounds of chemo, my most recent test just came back, the leukemia is starting to...

I seem to recall another discussion recently regarding foam vs. cork and the sound deadening qualities of foam. I believe that the result was that once ballasting was completed, there was basically no difference, since the hardness of the glue & ballast was what transferred sound to the...

Hi there, Biased Turkey! Sorry to disagree, but the CorAnglais is a modern day version of a tenor oboe (woodwind); the 'French horn' is a brass instrument. So what's the connection to railroading....work with me on this...ah...ah...YES! Badly played they both sound like a diesel horn. Really...

Greetings all We are about to relocate, July 1, in Raleigh NC. Other than Tom's Train Station in Cary, are there any other good shops within reasonable distance? TTS is very impressive, but it's always nice to have alternatives. Also, is there any sort of N-gauge club type train nuts in that...

Hi all, again I don't think, however, that anyone has intentionally tried to fool anyone over the name. (Sort of like the English speaking countries insist upon calling it a 'French' horn...there's nothing French about it...) I'm not sure where the 'nickle silver' term originated, but somehow it...

What we know as 'nickle silver' really would be better identified as 'nickle-brass'; regular yellow brass is generally a 70% copper/30% zinc alloy; nickle 'silver' is the same proportion with anywhere from 5% to 15% nickle added to the mix. There is a third alloy used mostly in musical...

Greetings, Zach Likewise, I too, have been wrestling with the possibility of N vs. HO gauge. I've decided to stick with N for a variety of reasons. Almost 30 years ago I worked with N gauge and even then was surprised at the reliability and quality of N scale products...today most everything is...

I just picked up a minitrix 'n' decapod in basically new condition at my LHS for a very reasonable price. I can see there is going to be some major surgery ahead, since the manufacturer has been totally oblivious to some really basic things....like...having the steam pipe line up with the...

I believe this question has been asked before...but here goes again. Regarding F7 A units: Is it true that originally the F7 when used in passenger service required a B unit to supply (in addition to extra motive power) ...was it steam for heating systems? But later on there was a modification...

10 cents a bottle. Milwaukee Wisconsin, about 1955, purchased at Horky's Pharmacy, 57th & Vliet St. I was about 12 at the time...making me now...ahhh you do the math, I can't stand the answer. Harpo

Oops, forgot to mention..this textured paint seems to be a satin or dull finish as well...another plus.... Harpo

Just happen to have stopped at my local Home Depot yesterday...Rustoleum now has a few colors in a rough textured spray paint. Have been experimenting with this in a dark green to darken trees made with polyfiber and ground foam...so far the results look promising, but I can't really tell for...

Many thanks for the suggestions. I have eliminated the car that seemed to be causing the most problems; it had a cast metal floor which made it about three times heavier than anything else. Stripped it for parts, actually...the trucks were fine. Running without it has eliminated about 90% of the...