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Fantastic details - wow! What a layout! :thumb::thumb::thumb: Thanks for the link! Ron

Hi to you all! My best wishes from snowy Switzerland! Ron

Strange - can't post... (sorry) :confused: (Computer doesn't accept it???????) I'll try again later Ron

In my train room I have a linoleum floor with a soft, felt-like underside installed. It is much easier and softer to walk on than on the bare concrete floor. (You realize it when you have problems with your back!:rolleyes:) The surface is easy to clean, small parts dropped are easy to find...

Two questions and one picture Today, after a pause I reread some threads here on the Gauge, and therefore I browsed the actual contests going on. Now I am somewhat off the tracks (:mrgreen:), because I'm left with two questions for our moderators: - Is this thread a real contest - and when it...

Thanks Mike! I'll keep an eye on it... :thumb: Ron

Thanks Mike for transforming this interview into a MP3 file. I downloaded it (right-click on you link and "Save target as...") to my Comp, so I could listen to the interview. Since I am speaking German, it was also quite an exercise in English for me! :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:) Hey, this...

It's fun to do some 'driving' on these picture-mapped streets. TrainNut - these pics were made from a travelling car. It drove in the rightmost lane, and not too slow. When you look towards South, you see a red car ahead of you in the middle lane. Now "follow" the car by repeatedly clicking on...

From Switzerland my best wishes to all my friends at The Gauge and the other Zealot forums! Don and Mikey: You're right, all the Christmas stuff hasn't any calories. It's only the air which becomes so nutritive around those days... :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen: Ron

I am so sorry to hear this sad news. I'll surely miss his posts. My condolences to his family and friends. Ron

Like Rob, outside I like autumn most. But on a layout it is easy to overdo it with the gaudy orange and red trees. So I'll try to model late summer with a few trees starting to turn yellow/orange/red. But to be honest, at the moment I also should have clicked on a 'Plywood' button, if there was...

Oh, what a loss! This is really a strike of bad luck - but still you were lucky to be at home at the right time... I wish you luck that the insurance pays in full for the damage. Some companies are champions for finding lame excuses when it comes to paying a damage... BTW, I sort of keep an...

Another possibility, when the brick structure on the outer walls has been smeared and crazed with glue - but the joints themselves are straight and hold together well: Often the worst areas are concentrated along a vertical jont, mostly on the building's corners. So why not add climbing vines...

Of course you know where you just put down your soldering iron. But never pick up a hot iron without SHARPLY LOOKING AT IT! Invariably you will grab the iron at the wrong end! :eek::curse:... :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen: Ron

This is a very interesting offer, Tom. I found that it is quite easy to get detailed information about historic RR technology (say steam engines, older diesels, mechnical signalling...) But I found it quite difficult to find information about details of recent technology. Thank you in advance...

Frankly, I don't feel any pity for the idiots who fall for this kind of fraud. They are so greedy that perhaps this could be a impressive lesson for them. This really is a new twist of the "Nigerian Scheme" - I think that this type of letter only will be sent into countries who have troups...

Let me join the ranks of felicitators! I retired exactly one year ago, and I was also the lucky receiver of a beautiful railroad book, signed by all my (ex-)colleagues in our school. I looked forward to having much more time to spend on my railroad - but as it turned out (and others have said...

Yikes - I'd like to have your gas price problems over there in America! Your gas is dirt cheap compared to OUR prices here in Europe. In Switzerland we pay around 1.75 Swiss Francs for regular (per litre!) - and at the moment that translates to about US$ 6.65 per US gallon! wall1 And in Germay...

Also the German 'Reichsbahn' made such experiments even before WW II. But the difference is that at this time you still had a complete crew on the locomotive plus a second engineer in the cab at the other end of the train. They were connected by telephone. At least in Germany the experiments...

Only now I stumbled over this very interesting thread. Here is some update about modern steam: Triplex mentioned the Swiss firm which builds modern steam engines. The DLM (Dampf (= steam) Locomotive and Machine works) is a spin-off of the former SLM and exclusively produces steam engines since...