I know that they are out of business.

Does anyone know of a source of their products that may still be around.

Thanks

After a short wait I have great news. Over the weekend I received the first donations for our school layout. They are an extremely generous amount of products from Augusta Track creator of a modular track system (website link: http://www.augustatrack.com/) 

Their card

The Power Packs and Signs

So last night, I was doing a decoder install for BCRY #1001 (TCS CN-GP into a Lifelike Proto GP18).  After getting everything into place, it was time to test.  I went down to the basement to get some Unitrack to hook up to my laptop.  When I opened the door to the pantry cabinet where I keep most of my train stuff, one of the shelves inexplicable collapsed, sending my modest collection of nine hoppers, two centerbeams, two tank cars and a GP38 plummeting 640 N-scale feet to the concrete below...

In comments on my last post, someone asked about the routing of the optical fiber. I think "routing" is too dignified a word for what I did, but here's a closeup:

Summer has come and unfortunately work on my layout has slowed down considerably. I'll be posting here every once and a while though, just to keep you up to date on any construction progress that does get done on my upper deck. 

Paul Krentz

Free-lancing a fictitious portion of the N&W Pocahontas "Pokey" District

There is so much to do on a model railroad! While most of my students are absorbed by the experience of operating, I have more students than available operating positions at any given time, so it's a good idea to keep other activities on tap that make a contribution to the fun and provide an educational benefit.

Building scale structures is one of those things.

If you go back a couple of posts, you will find that I had a story regarding the station building at Sunset. I was trying to build a legend to cover the fact that the building was a little too small for its supposed location at the main station for the railroad. I had a lot of problems with the roof of the structure, mostly because I used a water based glue to fix the shingles rather than the recommended double sided tape.

Posting this to my blog for safe keeping. 

Okay, you guys and gals are probably thinking "oooooh, I wonder what this is! It sounds like a movie trailer, and a bit exaggerated, but I'll look anyway because the title sounds catchy.". Well, basicly, I ordered a B&M Dietz vesta, it came today, I found the wick was the wrong size and had been sloppily trimmed, the wick tube was loose, and the fuel tank/burner assembly was not coming out. I managed to get it out using a hammer, and a skrew driver (the lantern is fine, it wasn't as nasty as it sounds, and I did try using maximum strength first).

Well, this afternoon I celebrated being able to run a sound loco from one end to the other with no hickups or hangups -- save for the occasional spot of dirty track. All the zone lights triggered as they should have. And the hand laid curved turnouts were traversed without a hitch. Granted, it was my Rapido GMD-1... heavy enough to be well behaved.