Getting 90 degree corners on structures is not particularly easy. Some time ago, I realized I could make it much easier using something that I still have tubs of laying around from my childhood: Legos. The blocks are perfectly square and can be attached with cyanoacrylate adhesive (CA) to every plastic or styrene surface that I've ever used.

I have been toying with this idea of a blog of my model railroad hobby for a while now and with the start of the new year, here I go.  This is the second iteration of the Chicago Yellowstone and Pacific began about 2002.  It is far from any real completeness.  The nickname, Yellowstone Road, springs from a local newspaper article that described an early 20th century system of roads strung together as an automobile route from the East coast to the Northwest through the Northern states, the Yellowstone Trail.  My town is on that route, hence the article.  I thought, &

I have milled jigs from styrene to built wooden trestles in HOn3. With these jigs, it's easy to built even large trestles. Here are a few pictures:

Speed of your trains by Artarms.

My question" How many cars in the train when running the 48" section of track to estimate train speed using the graph"?

Mel Stone

Engine #1, the Marc F. Davis hauls a load of supplies to the mines as the last rays of the sun light up Big Thunder Falls. Backdrop and atmospheric effects added with Adobe Photoshop, all else as modeled.

Completed office for the planned scrap yard.

Some recent pictures of the progress on the relocating of Watersmeet Engine Terminal

The roughed in foam in the cut created by the raising of the Terminal subbase.

Hi, I am writing from Italy.

I use a Digitrax DCS-50 with F1 to F9.

Now I have an Arlecchino ETR 250 with sound, but I can't use F10,F11,F12 for voice station sound.

There is a solution to avoid to by a new CDS-51 ?

Thank you

Massimo