UNBELIEVABLE - Must watch this video. 

www.youtube.com/watch

Credit John Diehl from the Kentucky/Indiana MRRC.

Sorry if this had already been posted.

I have an N scale display and I was given an HO scale train set. I would like to expand and add the HO to my display but when I try to run the train it goes maybe a foot then stops. this happens whether in forward or reverse. I've cleaned the tracks and the wheels and it has the plastic insulated joiners. It's an old set so I'm not sure what to do with it. The engine is a bachmann santa fe 307. Can anyone give me any suggestions? Thanks.

 It has taken me awhile to realize that the keys to neat soldering of rail joiners are a clean hot soldering iron and fine gauge wire solder.  Thus I have a number of joints that are fat, oozy and unsightly.  My efforts to clean them up with files and a dremel have proven less than satisfactory.  I tried a desoldering vacuum bulb which also didn't do the job for me.

I pass these photos along just to show that there's a prototype for the performance of my first trackwork way back when.

6/24/10 - UP's LOFxx was shoving a string of empties, when a boxcar picked the points of a yard track switch.  So, the west truck took track 3 and the east truck took track 2.

Hi All,

7hr 23min and about 10 sec away from needing a lithium with a thorazine chaser. It ain't pretty.