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The track cars have two wooden handles that extend the entire length of the car. They can slide back and forth. The car is kept in the shed with it's wheels on the wooden timbers you see in the photo. It is rolled out to the track, the handles are extended forward, and the front end is lifted...

This isn't a truss rod car; its a N&W bathtub gondola, turned over on its side to display the KC brakes and rotary couplers. It's from the Norfolk Southern image collection at the Virginia Tech website: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/imagebase/norfolksouthern/full/ns1754.jpeg

I'm not so sure that all P2K drive parts are interchangeable with Athearn. The ones I have seen were similar in design to Athearn, but not exact copies of the Athearn parts. The axles are the only parts I have seen that are drop-in replacements. Go to the Life-Like website and find the phone...

Must be lo-cal hydrocal:)

The US postal dis-service raised their rates not too long ago, and instead of charging a flat rate for Priority Mail, like they used to, they went to a zone system like UPS has. At the same time, they stopped handling the parcels. Now all parcels are turned over to Federal Express! The post...

Someone asked a similar question on another board a few months ago...Athearn sells all the parts you need, but you would have to replace the frame and the entire drive train, I guess you could get away with the old motor but why would you want to keep it? Athearn will also sell a complete...

Consider adding a car float; ANYTHING can be sent to it. The perfect excuse for running that favorite car that doesnt fit in anywhere else. Can be a large ship, like those used on the Great Lakes, or a simple barge with track on it, like ones used everywhere. Walther has kits for the barge...

The ratio of the clock is determined by the length of the operating session you want. On my layout, I run from 6am to 6 pm, or 12 hours. I run the clock at a 4:1 ratio, giving me a session length of 3 hours. This holds true, whether I model in HO or N or any other scale. There is a...

Tichy Train Group makes rivets, too...they're like little pins; you drill a small hole in the model and glue the rivet in it. Another way would be to use paper, thin styrene, or foil and emboss the rivet heads from the back. Depends on where you are using them. Here's a URL for a list of...

Finescale Railroader magazine has a website at http://www.finescalerr.com/ This is the only magazine I know of that publishes the whole thing on line. Search their site to see if they have any building plans. Most of their articles are for large scale, but you can change the scales...

There is a company named Musket Miniaures that has Civil War figures, guns and accessories in HO. They have a web site but I dont have the URL handy. There is also a group at Yahoo.com named EarlyRail, that has a lot of info on color schemes, etc. There isnt much rolling stock available...

IHC (used to be AHM) makes the coupler that will mate with both horn-hooks and Kadees...I think they called it the E-Z Mate. It has been said before so I'll say it again...Kadee Kadee Kadee. It has been my experience that the plastic look-alikes dont hold up. Most of them have a...

This website gives a list of many decal makers, including several who make graffitti. http://www.greatdecals.com/ I once found a site that featured fonts to use to make decals etc...that included a "grafitti font engine" (for lack of a better term). You selected the font, entered the...

Unfortunately I cant quote any exact dates either, but the use of headlights during daylight was uncommon in the days of steam. Some roads may have required lights earlier (Burlington comes to mind, though I dont know if they used lights or not), but generally headlights werent used oin daytime...

Ya sorta have to buy a magazine once in a while to look at the ads. Thats about all they're good for, though. The Shay is supposed to be really nice, but i haven't seen one run and didnt pay much attention to the ones sitting on the store shelves. Bachmann has a 4-6-0 in the works...

I have one. It suffers from a problem that is generic to all plastic steam...it isnt heavy enough to pull much. Aside from that the fact that it has few wheels means it has few points of contact with the rail, so it is vulnerable to dirt, and plastic turnout frogs. I took it apart and packed...

I can think of 3 ways to stop cars at the end of a track, that you can make easily. The first is a simple mound of dirt, or ballast. Just put a pile at the end of track and glue it using whatever method you use for your track ballast. The second uses 2 cross ties (sleepers). Put the end of...

I used to work for a lumber products company that was served by rail. Our spur was on a slight grade, and had room for 2 cars. We only had a loading dock large enough to spot 1 car at a time, so when the railroad would deliver the cars they would spot one past the dock, and the other at the...

The Willie K WAlthers Catalogue of Unavailable Model Railroad Supplies lists the Central Valley turnout kits; not all are available yet but should be by the end of the month. The URL: http://www.walthers.com Here are some other track laying sites...

Central Valley has just released some turnout kits that are supposed to be outstanding...you provide the rail, they provide the ties, points, frog, anchors, tierods, etc. They are supposed to be fantastic. There is a group about handlaying track at Groups@Yahoo.com. Do a web search; there are...