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Since the roadbed ought to be hidden, it should make no difference in how it looks later. So while you could do it like you lay out, it would just take more ballast that way. It's also likely that it would change the way the layout "sounds" as cars run over it. Plus it's possible that it might...

Amen. Note you *can* use glue instead, but it generally takes longer to dry. You can do a lot of tracklaying or roadbedding binging with caulk.

13 scale feet, just like the real world. It's tighter but I prefer the realistic width.

I did that last Christmas break. Fortunately I managed to keep it below $60. Heh. Excellent store.

Thats intentional. Generally, for example, all "six coupled" engines will be within a similar weight range and fuel consumption range. They will generally have similar maintenance loads as well. While this is only a general rule, in the days of Steam, when you were lucky to get two engines of...

It's the Whyte system of engine classification. Used primarily for steam engines, but also for some electrics. The first number represents the number of wheels on the lead truck, if any. If there is no lead truck, the number is 0. The last number is the number of wheels on the trailing truck...

I would definitely NOT use a hot glue gun. When extruded styrene foam gets hot it melts and it can give off toxic fumes. Even hot foam cutters generally recommend ventiliation while cutting. I've seen a number of other options chosed. Latex Liquid Nails, spread thinly. I've used yellow...

Well I have a close friend coming in for the post-Christmas portion of my holiday. My plans are to take him to see all the interesting forms of passenger railroading we have out here -- Spanish built tilting Talgos, light rail, streetcars, commuter rail, etc.... If he's lucky I won't lose him in...

Before we get too worked up over this, might someone like to look into the actual accuracy of this report? RCL/RCO does NOT use rail infrastructure for control of remote locomotives. It is not reliable as a conductor. This is why many grade crossings fail each year -- bad conductivity, failure...

That's what I ask him all the time! Considering how little action his layout has seen.... Member of a number of forums and Yahoo. I don't particularly recommend any of them, however. The best place to learn more about whats going on in your area tends to be on various popular yahoo lists...

Wow. I've heard of prototype fidelity before, but this is taking it a step too far. My advice, stop modeling the C&O! :-P

Sounds more like a loose connection in the locomotive, or mayhaps a short somewhere. When it stops running, is the other engine also on the tracks? If so, does it continue to run also?

Nevermind. I give in. I'll be sure to tell Bruce Carswell about the ways his railroad doesn't make $4m a year the next time I'm on the officer's special. I know nothing, nothing at all.

No, it likely wouldn't. Coal doesn't move by truck. Grain largely doesn't move by truck. Even commodities that do often move by truck still move by rail even in corridors that short. Intra-line service is alive and well, even in 2006. It's the backbone of at least 1/3 of the business of many a...

Brakie, if a car is destined for a point on another line, yes, it must be interchanged. However, routing of cars and how they get to a particular place is what differs. Lets say that there is a customer in Wheeling, on the NKP. They want to ship to Toledo. Which route will they choose? WLE/NKP...

Well... *ahem*... some of it was on the caption. :-\ More of it was in an excerpt of an old KPC spotter's guide. The rest came out of Brian's book collection, once he knew what it was.

Just because the NKP buys the W&LE doesn't mean your rivalry ends. in fact, it gets worse: now your competitor is part of a much larger, wealthier line. Unless your line is rich with traffic that's heading to point on or via the NKP, you would be a rivals. Ditto with all the others in the area...

So now that you're basically duplicating the W&LE, you're likely not a friendly connection with the NKP anymore. Who are your new allies? Wabash at Waseon? A shorter Pitt-Toledo route for NYC?

If the NKP leased your line, it would effectively cease to exist. The NKP would almost certainly use it's own power and crews. The W&N engines would mix with the NKP stuff and might keep their paint, and they might even wander down to coal territory. But it wouldn't be the same as a W&N train...

Wikipedia is your friend! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uintah_Railway Also, Google found this: http://home.bresnan.net/~bpratt15/uintah_photos.htm