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Attaching stuff.. The hot glue has worked great for me: - plywood and wood--> foam - foam --> foam - cork --> foam but I would be hesitant about using CA if it cannot get air to dry or if one of the surfaces is too porous for it to get enough of a grip. Plus it is more expensive than the...

Cork Just a FYI -> I got a pack of four 12" x 12" x 3/8" cork tiles from Home Depot for around $2. I used one but will not attempt to cut the other three as the cork density is much lower than the cork used in the pre-sloped roadbed pieces. It crumbles more than cuts and the edges crumble if...

NMRA St & RP's :yep: The National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) has standards and recommended practices for all scales starting at this link: NMRA St&RPs Index Personally, I usually go with the standards for modules. So, in answer to your question, 2" between centerlines of mainlines is...

Great Northern or Burlington Northern? One of many possible options is "Great Northern" when they ran from Vancouver/Winnipeg, Portland-Seattle to Chicago. Some notable passenger trains listed in "Classic American Railroads" by Mike Schafer (ISBN 0-7603-0239-1) include: Cascadian...

Nomad Valley Hi, I like the bridge :thumb: I wanted a nice big bridge like that but my door is in a corner and it must open and close with the lift out in place. As for finishing, ah, my fixed layout room (10' x 10') has been in and out of various stages for the past 12 years, so I would not...

Film speed and lighting... I use a couple of my small portable lamps that have flexible arms, kind of like this one: I think they have 60 watt incandescent bulbs in them. One is usually enough for auto focus to kick in and for the camera to stay at ISO 100 or 200 range. (I also use them when...

Digital Camera's *sigh* :cry: I wanted a Nikon digital for my lens too (including bayonet mount support) but I also wanted to stay under $200 US. :cry: *sigh* Don't get me wrong because at distances over a meter the new Canon takes great pictures, especially of people and colorful scenes...

ISO, Lights, Depth of Field, Macro, lions, tigers and bears... I suspect the camera bumped the ISO rating up to 200 or better where the higher the ISO on a digital camera, the grainier the picture. The way to keep that under control and not wash out the color is to add more light so the camera...

and add feeders... like they said above because the resistance in the metal rails (even clean ones) is greater than copper wire. Yes, you can add a larger potential energy source (power supply) but you cannot escape Ohms Law wherein all that extra energy comes out as heat :curse:

Denatured Alcohol Denatured Alcohol (DA) at around 5 or 6-to-1 DA-to-acrylic paint is what I was using with "Bright Blue" from Apple Barrel the other day in a 3/4 oz paint jar on a Model 200 from Badger. I used a test piece of paper where: - paint won't come out or is splotchy = add more DA...

Connecting... Ah, understood nolink5750... I think we tried that but got some connectors that caused bumps in the tracks because we had too much solder. In retrospect, we probably could have countersunk the holes so the ones with too much solder would fit underneath without causing bumps...

More ideas... Another possibility is to solder the feeders to the connectors. We did that with my brother's Toporama Geländematte when we finally set it up permanently on a 2' x 4' layout. We put the wire solder points of the connectors on the insides of the track where they joined pieces...

Wired for wiring... I have tried a few ways but strongly recommend 'tinning' the wires no matter how you go about doing the feeder wires. Here are some ways I have tried the feeders: - Every piece gets feeders. Pre-solder the wires to the track. Put the piece of track in place but not glued...

Glue gun... And be careful when trying to feed the new one in with the trigger - I have had to push the pins out to reconnect the trigger to the spring because I tried to force it...

Rug-Runners... Welcome to the Gauge! I hear you on the O27 wall1 My niece came to visit me a while back. Since she had just turned 3 and wanted to play with the trains, I thought... - the N Scale mini-layout had 'too many easily edible things', - the HO on the layout was 'too fragile', -...

"Gauge Mag" plug :excited1: I am not sure about "Model Railroading" and other publications but I am betting our own "Gauge Mag" would love anything you can provide to them for the upcoming issue. :excited1: (For further details, please check out this announcement announce1-...

Finding a better solution... than 0-5-0 to stop the short. It sounds like you have a short according to Step 7 in the installation guide from Digitrax (http://www.digitrax.com/ftp/dn163k0a.pdf): "7. Place the locomotive on the track, select address 03 on your throttle and apply power. If the...

What decoder is in the E8? Does the E8 still run on DC?

Hi-Beams :eek: I did not know they made halogen lights for models... Seen any of those new fangled blue head lights like you see on luxury cars being sold for HO engines? :wink:

Unusual GP50 A: Did you move the lights from between the road numbers to the nose? Q: Is the unit on the right doing double duty as a track cleaner or is the photo just giving me that impression? It almost looks like it has circuit boards for wheels :confused: