So this is a track plan that I considered entering in to the TOMA contest. Can anyone guess where this location is? Clue... LA Area

Joe, this is just a suggestion but it would be great if we could get a page forward button/backwards at the top of each page. Sometimes it would be easier on longer threads if you could just skip right to the last page. 

A little pithy I know, but I would appreciate it!

Nope,, not Basketball.

I am in need of a switch point guard for at least one turnout that I am having a little trouble with derailments on. Primarily Budd Passenger cars are the issue, but is has also happened on some regular boxes and flats. I have checked the turnouts, Hand laid and everything is within guage. 

Does anyone know if there is a manufacturer out there for these as a casting or is this something i will need to fabricate?

During the national convention this last week I hosted an operations session for some attendees. Anyway long story short..... Someone managed to run a locomotive off the railroad and onto the concrete floor below. I am putting feelers out to see if anyone out there has an Athearn Genesis F7 shell that they are not using. The locomotive in question that was destroyed was the ATSF F7A #260 L It was/is part of an ABBA consist that I purchased a few years back. Athearn Genesis part number G22025.

Thank you

How does everyone come up with their max cars per train? Do you use siding length, cars per axle, or more prototypically engine rating. I am guessing the latter would not be used modeling as we really can not get that many cars on the average layout. 

I presently use a limiting factor of siding length, but am thinking of going a different route and changing it to one car per wheel on powered engines. 

What are the thoughts and thinking out there? 

Tunnel to the right is the entrance and exit to staging for Diamond River. On the left is Diamond Fuel

So with the mass of railroaders on this site, I feel it would be appropriate to have some sort of a data base available of viewable track plans and maybe a brief description or operations plan. Maybe Joe could answer this; is there a way that plans could be stored and be available to be viewed. The obvious way is for everyone to add them to this or a similar blog, but they would not be searchable that way.

Looking for help in setting the Walters 90' turntable back to factory defaults. In other words getting rid of the programmed stops that I have in it presently

I posted this also.

I have been working recently on the "Oneapee River" crossing on my Diamond River Valley Railroad. Please enjoy the pictures. while I am only using a simple point and shoot for these pictures I hope to be able to take some nicer shots once the scenery is  more or less complete.

The first shot is that of the blue foam being roughed in.

 It's been a while since I posted any pictures so I thought that I would post a couple of some recent scenery addition. These are a couple of shots of the early scenery progress in the town of Brookside.