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i just started doing this eairly this year. now when i build or detail any locomotive, before i start, i find some pictures of that exact prototype. i dont match them exactly, that would take much more time than i have. but i do add enough details to make a decent model that looks good enough...

the other night i stopped at the Flying J truckstop in Spiceland, Indiana and i noticed they were selling video sets for 9.99 they had several different titles and one of them was a set of 4 one hour videos on steam locomotives. the videos are "Cass and Mower logging trains", "Steam giants...

anyone here know anything about what antennas i need for my SD40T-2's? three of them have the 2 small antenna planes on the cab roof behind the A/C. one of them is the 116" snoot with the antenna plane in the middle, behind the cab. and the other 3 have the antenna planes on the firemans side...

come on people!!!! we need at least one more team!!!! preferably several more teams! for those of you thinking about it, it isnt hard to do at all. all you really have to do is check in on your team once a week or so to change players around, and we'll be happy to help if you dont know...

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sign me up!! y'all are going down this year! hmm...didnt i come in next to last last year?.....

i have one P2K espee and 2 of the Athearn Rio Grandes. i added the nose lights to the DRGW units and i used a file to make a flat spot on the nose of the espee unit. not 100% right, but good enough for me. i wish i would have waited and got an athearn espee, but for now i am stuck with this...

i was just checking all the SD50 pictures on http://espee.railfan.net and it seems that by the time all the D&RGW SD50's made it to the UP they had their nose lights removed, class lights plated over, and the 5 chime horns replaced with 3 chime and moved to the long hood by the radiator fans...

i had a sunset 2-10-2 and that thing ran like a swiss watch. no problems whatsoever and it was really quiet. I dont know when it was made but it looked like a fairly recent model when i bought it on ebay about 3 years ago. and the detail was plain awesome :D

here is the latest from the show. looks like more good stuff i have to have but dont really need :D Breaking News from Model Railroader & Trains.com 7/14/04 Model Railroader Magazine Scale Model Trains Newsletter http://www.modelrailroader.com...

i think that all walthers has in 33" wheels. thats all they ever put on anything. the RD4's are supposed to be 36". same with the Bethgons.

Welcome to one of my many homes on the Internet Lorne. and Welcome to Dave too! :D :D looks like we have almost all the espee nuts in one place now! :D i'll have my batch of SP and SSW SD40T-2's done soon, guess i'll have to post pictures here so y'all can tell me if i did them right or...

just finished these today. they are a pair of Life Like P2K GP9's that i detailed, painted and decaled. i tried to match the pictures on the espee site and they came out pretty well. my lighting really sucks so these photos arent all that good. i added that new flourescent light and it...

it was a miniseries shown on one of the networks a couple of years ago. i saw it there. some pretty good train scenes but if you know anything about trains it is not very realistic.

got this in my inbox today from trains.com looks like some good stuf coming up soon. i could use some of those FP7's to paint up in C&EI colors! click on the link wayyy down at the bottom for road names and more details on some of the stuff. in addition, Athearn has announced and shown a...

a little boy was in the basement playing with his model railroad. he pulled the train into the station and sais "all you idiots who want to get on the train get on, and all you idiots who want to get off the train get off." his mom was at the top of the stairs and overheard her son. she went...

Polar Express

i ended up getting a couple more noses and sub bases glued together for my other 3 SD40T-2's. still waiting on another 123" nose. and i found out that i ordered the wrong anticlimbers...so i have to get more today. i also finished up the decals on my 2 Southern Pacific GP9's. now i just...

overall, the only problem i have heard about them is that once they get your phone number and email, they send ALOT of advertisements and they like to call you all the time trying to sell you other stuff. PWRS syas that if you tell them not to, they wont call or email you all the time, but from...