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I paint my flex track using the cheapest hardware store squirt paint I can find. I use 3 colors, primer gray, any brown or boxcar red, and flat black. I paint everything before I lay it. Then I use acryllic paints from the craft store to paint the ties. I just slobber the stuff on, not...

What you are calling a 'compound curve' is what I have always heard referred to as an S or Reverse Curve. Generally not a good thing to have...you need a straight length, usually at least a car length, between the curves. If there is no straight, run very slow through it, it will be a...

As stated above, the end with the brakewheel is the 'B' end. This is the rear of the car; the front is the 'A' end. With the A end as front there is a left and right side; sometimes this is noted on a boxcar's sides next to the door. The axles are numbered front to rear and the journals are...

Any kind of caboose with vertically scribed wood siding would be fine. You can use 8 wheel cars, or 4 wheel bobbers. Model Die Casting makes some nice wood cars, as well as a lot of other truss rod era car kits.

It's been my experience that Walther's charges list price, unless an item is in their sale flyer. The reason I use them is that their catalog is online, and is updated daily. When I go to order something, they tell me whether or not it is in stock right now. I can order from them at 3 am and...

I've heard about the lizards...I don't think I would go that far. They are the critters that pet stores sell as 'chameleons' ,They are way too big to be used for gators, and they dont really look like one. I wouldnt want any embedded in resin on my layout. Besides they eat mosquitoes..they...

Tyson, I wasnt aware of a narrow gauge line in Florida...there is a standard gauge line that operates a daily steam train to Mt Dora, from Orlando. I have exactly one (1) alligator on my layout...it was some kind of Dungeons and Dragons monster or something, cast in pewter. Scales out to 16...

A few years ago I was building a layout, with the idea in mind that I was going to move it some day. I live in Florida, where we dont have attics or basements so this was built around the walls of a spare bedroom. I built a sectional layout...not modules, as they werent interchangeable, but...

Back in the early days of railroading, before the advent of air brakes, a trains crew consisted of an engineer, fireman, conductor, head brakeman, rear brakeman, and several swing brakemen. The number of swing brakemen varied, with one man assigned for each 5 cars in the consist. The swing...

Its a regional thing...in Canada they called them vans, around here they called them cabs, around New York City they called them hacks...the Pennsylvania called them cabins...depends on where you are Bill

'The Gauge' is not a real-time chat. By that I mean that people are not actually sitting at their computers waiting to talk with each other' at this minute. These boards are like a bulletin board...you write a note and stick it up there with a thumbtack, and someone comes along, reads it, and...

Try using two extra lengths of rail, or Plastruct shapes, and gluing them to the ties, inside the running rails. Glue them in place with ACC, inside the running rails, right next to the spike heads, like guard rails. Then fill in the space between them with plaster. This will give you a ready...