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Thanks for the tips! I built up a "test" mountain last night on a scrap of wood, so I will work with your techniques and get a feel for it before I touch the layout! The Woodland Scenics Earth Undercoat is a darker brown... would you recommend that as a step before the black? Thanks again, --Rob.

I got one of these for Christmas from my wife. Basically it is a circuit board with an SD card reader that allows you to play .wav files out of amplified speakers connected to the board. The board can be rigged up with switches to trigger the playing of the sound files or it even allows a DCC...

I have recently begun making my mountains by wading up newspapers and covering with plaster cloth. I attempted to color the plaster cloth once dry and noticed it didn't quite look right (could still see too many holes from the cloth, etc). I placed a skim coat of Sculptamold over the dryed...

The Conrail loco is an Atlas Master Gold (with QSI DCC decoder with sound). The black one in the yard is an old Athearn GP38, Norfolk Southern my mom got me years ago... it's a DC loco so it actually cannot run on the layout since I have a Prodigy DCC system and it is not compatible with DC, so...

Excellent! Thanks much. I will check the trucks too... I know some of them seem loose, so that combined with the proper weight will hopefully solve the wobble. Thanks again! --Rob.

In doing some test runs on my track, I noticed some of my rolling stock was wobbling along the rail to varying degrees... some very little shake, some exhibited an obnoxious amount of shake. In reading some reviews in Model Railroader, I noticed they talk about the weight being under or over by...

This is my first time creating a layout that actually has mountains and elevations (well, I've tried before and got "angry" with the results and tore it up to start again)... my wife even asked me when I started this layout, are we going to finish this one :) Looking at the mountain area...

Thanks for the kind words. The farm is actually going to be in the area right next to the mountain. The inspiration for that was when my wife and I were in Vermont, we drove by the "most photographed" farm in Vermont, Jennee Farm. When you approach the farm, you are actually on a mountain...

Hello everyone. I just stumbled across this board and am really enjoying looking through everyones layouts and design thoughts, etc. I have attached some photos of the layout I just started working on. The room is small (our laundry room) that I did some remodeling on to make it look nice...