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On each section or your layout are there any insolated rail joiners.If so you will need wires to each section.Also check our connections to the pack and rails too.Hope i can help.

Here's another car I had the wife do,I think she has got the hang of it now so it's about time to let her doodle on my good CP cars now.Then I will do weathering and a dullcoat to seal them. Hope everyone had a mMerry Christmas and wish you all to a Happy New Year!!!!!!

Joe looking good with the terrain now.I use that plaster cloth on my layout to and i really like it.I have found after you lay a piece where you want it smooth it out with your fingers to help fill in the holes in the cloth. :thumb:

vandals hit again!!!!!!!!!!!!! Give me some feed back on these cars,should i keep it up or give in and just buy them.I still plan to weather and seal them in dull coat.

Joe thats about 19 feet in n-scale.They are looking good.Check out my layout here on the gauge My layout

Joe is that a road going over your tunnel,if it is i would say its a real steap grade for the best of autos!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joe you can upload your pictures here on the gauge also if you keep them under their size restrictions,which are no larger than 640X480 and around 65kb

Joe the pictures need to be on the web for them to show up.

1 inch is about 13 scale feet in n-scale.I would suggest you go to the hobby store and buy a scale ruler like i did.It has been very handy to in checking small detail and they are faily inexpensive to.Look forward to seeing some pics of your layout.I plan on making my roads also with the same...

I am getting my wife to try her craft side of things in my model railroad.I'm getting her to garaffiti some roliing stock in my inventory with gel and paint markers.I first gave her a car i plan to repaint in CP markings anyway.So if it doesn't turn out i can strip it and start over.There is...

Good question,when i first laid the #4's i didn't try running aany engines thru the turn outs.After soldering and wiring and nailing i ran my GP-7 thru the turn outs and the the gaurds on the front and rear of the engine caught on the electric switch motors.So I needed to replace them with a #6...

Passenger pictures Go to my web site and check out my Via set there.

About time i visited your posts here.Layout is looking great,should be a great time building and even better once you run some trains around the rails.Keep up the pictures of your work :thumb:

They do cost alot at the store so i am only using 2.I have 4 tunnel opening and i will finish the other 2 off with rock castings and have a large tunnel entrance as they have in the B.C. mountain line for CP and CN.

The tunnel portals are Woodland Senic concrete portals sold in packs of 2 at the LHS,and the fronts of the mountian entrances are sheet styrafom cut to fit then wraped in plaster cloth to give strength and support.

Just got a new 5 car Via Rail set by Concor Picked the set up for $85 cdn off a friend of mine.Which is pretty good for canadian dollers.The set includes the RPO,Coach,Sleeper,Dome Observation and a End Coach Observation Car.They are all blue and yello except the Dome Observation which is...

The show was pretty good,don't think it was as busy as last years but still good.The layouts were inpressive as always and the Lego Display won 1st prize.I was working a booth all weekend so i was able to check out everything.I might go down to Calgary for the show in Feb next year.

I had 2 Kato SD-40's pulling 22 cars up a 4% grade right after a 180 degree turn and thru one of my switchs

I haven't done any scenary since i was last here but at the "Great Edmonton Train Show" here in Alberta i did pick up a few new locas to add to the fleet. 1 is a Atlas GP-35 2 are Kato Sd-40's the Burgandy and grey is correct type but the red one is supossed to be a SD-40-2 but to most...

I got a few engines at the local train show this weekend and i was wondering how do i check to see if i can install a decoder in them.1 is a altlas GP35 and the other 2 are Kato SD-40's.Right now i run DC but plan to go to the local club wich is DCC so i also need a decoder that can switch...