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It was thanks to this thread that I ran across the multitude of free MSTS downloads at www.train-sim.com . I registered and started downloading immediately! I've already got several new engines running on my routes, although installing all the files and folders in exactly the right places is...

I haven't had much time to tinker with the locomotive before leaving for college this past Sunday, leaving my layout and all rolling stock behind. :( My initial opinion was that it runs very badly. The motor makes a loud "RRRRRRRRNNNNNNNGGGHHHH!!!!!!!" sound and requires power to be applied most...

Johnny, Sorry I didn't notice your reply earlier. For some reason The Gauge didn't send me an email which it usually does when someone replies to a thread I have posted in. As I said in my PM to you I moved to Green Bay from Stoughton this past Sunday for college. It sounds like you have had...

Isn't this a coincidence. I bought just such an engine at a flea market less than a week ago. It is a model of a Canadian Pacific EMD F7 by Revell. It seems to be a rather old design, with traction tires on the wheels and no flywheels on the motor. The driveshaft to the front truck is...

I'll enter my photo of Rock River Cannon Ball #3 departing with another trainload of Thresheree visitors.

Got the rest of the pictures done. An unrestored Henschel locomotive the Thresheree aquired later. It looks more like what #3 looked like originally.

Here is 2' gauge 0-4-0 #3, built as a switcher tank locomotive by Henshel Locomotive Works in Germany. After retirement it was brought to the United States (specifically Edgerton, Wisconsin) and through the diligent work of Walter Durst and the other founders of the Rock River Thresheree, it was...

Sorry Miles, I think I'll keep the bobber. It was IMO the coolest car in the set. Just because cabooses aren't needed by the Grovemont Branch in 2006, doesn't mean they aren't needed by me when I run the railroad in the steam era/early diesel era. The replacement of cabooses with F.R.E.D.s is...

Went to the Rock River Thresheree near Edgerton today, and at the flea market bought out somebody's entire collection of HO scale trains for $35. This included Atlas snap-track and a power pack which was really superfluous, but what the heck. The Grovemont Branch Roster...

Glad you liked 'em Deano. It had been awhile since I'd been there too (12 years), which is why I thought we ought to stop by. I modified the post a bit, fixed some typos and added another picture that I'd forgotten to upload (of #1385's smokebox cover). As a fellow Wisconsinite and UP fan...

Visited the Mid-Continent Railroad Museum the weekend before last. Posted a sort of "photographic tour" up on my blog: http://ayaredubya.blogspot.com/2006/08/saturday-august-19-in-sauk-county.html

Thanks again Deano. :) Got around to finishing the pictures tonight. Here's more from Al's (which also serves as the local watering hole): "Go home, Garrity! You've had enough for tonight!" The railroad loading dock at the rear: The Old Grovemont Schoolhouse, the first public...

I've already posted these pictures elsewhere, but here they are again. :) This isn't my "first" locomotive (that came with a Bachmann train set in 1989), but looks just like it and replaced it when it broke down. The Santa Fe F unit seems to be the most popular locomotive there is for train...

Grovemont Branch Roster Prior to the next batch of close-ups, here's the GBR locomotive roster. KEY: Original road name:type:road number:photo link:-notes:(model brand name) Steam era (last engine retired in 1960 and donated to local railroad museum): Union Pacific 2-8-0 Consolidation...

Close-ups on the Grovemont Branch Just saw your reply Deano. Thanks. :) Here is the nerve center of it all, the Grovemont depot. On a protypical railroad, Grovemont would be the hub of the branch line, roughly midway between its interchanges with the Class I railroads. It would be a...

Hello The Gauge, :wave: I apologize for barging in and making posts without properly introducing myself and my layout. I am a 20-year old south-central Wisconsin resident. When I was about 3 years old, I received a Bachmann HO scale train set called "The Diesel Hustler". It included a circle...

I voted Athearn, purely for price vs. reliability. We have had an Athearn Milwaukee Road EMD GP9 since about 1991 that has never given us any trouble and still runs quite well. Since then we have added quite a few more Athearn engines for a total of six (2 GP9s, 1 SD40-2, 1 FM Trainmaster, 1...

I have one of these Bachmann "pancake-motor" steam locos as well, a Great Northern 2-8-0 Consolidation. It became the first steam locomotive on our HO layout round about 1992. It never ran very well and caused many a headache for my dad and me (mostly Dad, since I was 6-8 years old at the time...

I too have an Athearn SD40-2, Chicago & Northwestern #6935. It absolutely LOATHES 18" curves. When it goes into a curve it makes a loud grinding noise that sounds as if the mechanism is binding up, which goes away once the track straightens out again. In fact, out of my six locomotives with...

Hi, Excellent modeling! I am a south-central Wisconsin resident/former Madisonian so it's good to see some local flavor. Have you modeled any of the railroading landmarks in Madison such as the former C&NW, now WSOR yard on Johnson Street, the causeways and junction on Monona Bay, or the W...