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Magazines and newspapers aren't about content, they'er about advertising. MRR mags aren't in business to help you build a MRR, they are in business to make money. They could just as easily be into a chain of Leprachaun Tattoo Parlours. I don't buy any magazines, except Canadian Cowboy Country...

I'll keep at it with differant brush tools and opacity. It'll take a while, so don't wait up.

I'm tinkering with composing N scale building elevations on card stock. The elements are taken from a free download. The weathering/aging of the sign was accomplished by layering it with texture from around around it. I use the Canon Photo Studio 5 clone tool at 30 to 50 % opacity. I really...

I wonder why MRR manufacturers don't have setups like the Amway model, because they are missing a huge market. It may even help grow the hobby. Maybe franchising too. Registered MRR clubs could be their own LHS ordering directly from the manufactuers creating a distribution organization...

Judging from the TV 'hit show' lineup,there's a huge supply of hobbyists of voyeurism, torture, debauchery and degradation. Their appetite is insatiable, clearly evidenced by the mindless cloning of filth and corrpution nose pickings splashed on 60 inch plasmas. Even the Food Network has a...

SUPERTRAIN 2008 Calgary Soccer Centre 7000 - 48 Street SESaturday and Sunday April 19 and 20, 2008 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. FREE PARKING

As long as retailers are satisfied with their niche-market share, and the economy is so-so, don't expect hobby shops or magazines to do any more than the absolute minimum. The guy at one of our two LHSs always looks like he's 5 years into a 35 year sentence and his shop removed their N scale...

I don't like spiders or snakes or DCC! I don’t like DCC- period, for one really good reason. Modellers boast about the proposed complex or simple layout still in the Xtrack software or whatever, and invariably end with the ‘blood spit and slap’ pledge of DCC. There’s not length of track in the...

Just drove the Rogers Pass en route to and from the Kamloops Cowboy Festival and spotted some very long trains. One with three lead engines,two-could have been three but the guard rail cut the view-in the middle. When there's a couple hundred hoppers, five locos, gravity and friction the...

If I had 10 x 13 feet to work with: I have often thought that a square or oval doughnut shaped layout would be the best for the operator and for viewers. It would be in the middle of a space or room to allow viewers and the operators to walk around and see the railroad from different...

WOW !! repeat, WOW !! doctorwayne, the advice,the photos and that railroad, are absolutely fabulous. The links are sweeter than a knot hole in ball park fence!! Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You !!! I tried too hard to tall forehead this one.

Which comes first, the bridge or the gorge the bridge will span? If I build a trestle bridge first I have excavate a gorge to fit. If I excavate a gorge, I have to cut and fit the bridge into it. So, what I was thinking is that if I were to make a template for the gorge I will excavated in the...

I know what nolink5750 is getting at. Take siding and roofing materials. A person can come up with some pretty respectable hand scribed clapboard in HO, but in N, well, not so respectable. A great tip for cutting shingles in HO is not usually acceptable for N. Then there’s the ubiquitous round...

Well, there’ll be no more driving dusty country roads taking photos of old farm buildings and barns, ranch houses, farm yards, fields, fences, cattle, abandoned machinery, horses, wildlife, sunrises and sunsets, tiny wildflowers, and country roads. It’s railroad season. Did anyone else forget...

Grace, serenity and strength overflow when God is in your heart. Blessings on you, Gil Finn.

I found a digital camera the other day and was able to find the owner from wedding some photos. It was an expensive camera, but what camera isn't these days! As I sorted through the photos trying to identify an owner, I had an idea: I marked’ my camera with a photo of my name and phone number...

2007 CPR Empress schedule August 17-22 Depart from Calgary, Alberta and journey across the Canadian prairie with overnight stops in Saskatchewan and a one-day layover in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Then our train moves on to the former Soo Line with an overnight stop in Thief River Falls, Minnesota...

UPDATED: 2007-08-15 18:14:37 MST Wed, August 15, 2007 Calgary Sun Train buffs will get an opportunity to catch a glimpse of a vintage 1930s steam locomotive in Calgary Friday. The Canadian Pacific 2816 Empress departs at 8 a.m. from the CP Pavilion at 1 St. and 9 Ave. S.W., said CP spokeswoman...

Didn't Canadian Tire have a device for adding an electric motor to a bike a while back? I think you're right-it was a roller system that sat atop a tire or something similar. Gotta run it down. if i had that thing id just make my wife do all the work........lol id only peddle when she...

It may be somewhat inappropriate to have a favorite war movie but, 'The Longest Day' is my reminder of the merciless violence and horror man can deliver upon others. There are no braver than those who put their lives at risk at war, and our gratitude and remembrance is cold comfort for their...