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I'm begining to feel like the second pressing of grapes. There's a huge billboard here in Calgary announcing the end of the 'great' hyrdro rate. That's paraphrasing the ad, but the message is clear-it's rock'em-sock'em part deux.

All the 'Click here for photo' buttons still show the dead cat eye Exxes. What am I doing wrong??

Bummed Out Today I saw my first ever episode of Tracks Ahead. I'd never seen it before, I posted it here today. I just thumbed open a 1993 Model Railroader - to the very page advertising the third season of Tracks Ahead !! Is that freeky er whut??

From the Website: Today's segment featured a school for model rail roaders whose layout replicates, in precise detail, the local rail history.

Gas Calgary, Saskatoon, $4.22 - $5.32 a U.S. gallon. ($1.21 - $1.33 a litre ) 13 May to 21 May

Relic, I just can’t let that volley be. In a land First Nations used to call The Great Mother Earth Written by Chaparral 2007 5 25 2005 hrs – 2155 hrs To the tune of ‘CLAUDE DALLAS’ By Ian Tyson. In a land First Nations used to call, The Great Mother Earth, A storm came brewing from...

1979 North Van BC to Squamish.

Yeah, it's kinda like the one about running trains in the opposite direction to evenly wear the motors. Then there's the one one about the freight wagon with a load cap of 500 lbs carrying 1000 lbs of pigeons. The skinner kept reaching back to beat on the side of the wagon. He figured by...

I'm planning on using dimmer controlled track mounted low volt halogens so lighting (and color) for photos and mood is adjustable. My 96" x 32" x 46" high N layout will have the lighting concealed by curtain - valance hung over the layout. The framework will double as a support for a lightweight...

Scratchbuilt O scale street lights I have scanned and saved a jpeg article from the October 1991 Model Railroader " Scratchbuilding O scale streetlights ". They are old fashioned gas lamps. Looks like the author used punched styrene discs, sequins, beads,brass tube and a 6 volt transformer to...

Got any Harley T shirts, Coke coasters, Chevy desk pens? Logos are ‘freely’ advertised in our homes on our backs and at work. We should be charging them !!

That’s not what I meant. Why can’t the RRs sponsor sites like The Gauge and the others? Why not sponsor national regional and local kitbashing, scratchbuilding or layout design contests, etc., etc.? How about dropping a caboose on the world’s largest retailer’s lot for a club layout? I'm too...

The eastern slopes of the Alberta Rockies are a blanket of white, far deeper than than in 2005 when the rain started on 28 May and stopped 23 days later, on 19 June. Although the reservoir at Calgary had been drastically drained, it was topped by six feet of water. An otherwise placid, ankle...

That berns my c’booze ! We MRRs spend a whack of money on our mini empires! We lead the pack in the pursuit of precise (aka rivet-counting) detailing of locos, stock and all manner and type of rail road associated stuff ! How come real rail roads don’t recognize ‘The World’s Greatest...

I been ambushed Sensory overload or what ????????? Zealot, wiki Blogs. RCs, auctions... The Gauge now looks like every other entry level wanna-be forum. I just want to hang out with train people !!!!!!! Go back to where we were.

Here’s something to tinker with: 35 mm slides - you can’t see thru them unless the light used is fairly bright. I’m thinking maybe using Grain of Wheat or Rice bulbs behind the grills, wrapped or rolled in slides to light up parts of the structure. I have read that the old hooded bulb over...

I think whatever you do - short of lining the interior with light absorbing black material - you will not be satisfied with the effect since the building is mostly windows. Try a couple GWBs in opaque glass tubes tucked into the ceiling. Hippys had psychedelic curtains and hangings over doors...

I have a mish mash of N rolling stock, awaiting the day when they will rumble and sway through pristine mountain passes, across magnificent wooden trestles…But, each has a different style/type of coupler, even the diesels. Some are teeny little prototypical looking, some look like Capt. Hooks’...

Don't leave home without clean underwear and your camera.