What a great day! The "Greater Nickel Plate" lives - - we have a DCC power pack and controller; DCC decoders for the engines; track; power cleaner for engine wheels; new Nickel Plate Society Magazines to read; a new Nickel Plate T-Shirt for my birthday (Thank you, Peggy); and an assortment of other goodies I needed to work on the railroad.

Ladies & Gentlemen,

First of all, this posting is my own idea and NOT at the request of MRH.  That said, we can all help the success of MRH by promoting it each and every time that we can.  Many of you are doing this now on your blogs and websites.  I encourage all of you that are not to do so.  It would also be helpful if your link contains one of the graphics that you can get from the MRH folks to help it stand out on your page.

TORONTO: Rapido Trains Inc. is pleased to announce a new revolution in model railroading realism: 2:1 SCALE.

As the model railroad community ages it is getting harder and harder to see the small, fiddly details on our model trains. Rapido has developed an innovative solution to this growing problem - 2:1 scale.

With 2:1 scale model trains, the details are twice the size of the prototype, so you will never have to worry about losing a grab iron or coupler spring again! That's because our grab irons weigh close to a quarter of a ton!

 I just "stumbled in" to this web site and am pleased to have joined. Very informative and I will be using information from here as I finally put my "paper dream layout" I have been carrying around for 30 years into lumber and trackwork. Yes, I'm a retired person who has been "in the hobby" almost all my life and now have the chance to do more than dream and draw.