Starting a new project; I built a modest 4X8 ft. HO scale railroad about 15 years ago, my second. Major inspiration came from Malcolm Furlow's San Juan Central project featured in MR magazine in the eighties. The concept was a freelanced  standard-gauge shortline with a narrow-gauge feel. Although I'm a fan of the D&RGS Narrow gauge prototype I already owned some standard gauge power and rolling stock so it was a virtual narrow-gauge effort.

I've been working on a blue box Athearn F7. I put on the brake cylinders and now the trucks wont turn all the way because the cab ladders are in the way. The only fix I see is to cut the ladders off or remove the brake cylinders. Does anybody have a fix for this problem? 

I've spent some time getting organized around the railroad this past week.

I built Shelving for my paints and boxes to organize my waybills in.

Paint Shelving; I started out with my table saw and 1/4" plywood and quickly realized this was dumb. I'm not that good at cutting small parts and getting joints to line up is just a pain - so I turned to the laser cutter and created shelf pieces in minutes that are straight and key together. I made the backs from task board - but I cut that with a knife ;)

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First of my really big streamliners (1.5"-scale) was the (in-)famous 'Aerotrain', GM's contribution during the light-weight-trainmania of the mid-50's.

building the shell - glass-fiber layers on subconstructions (fiber-board, steel tubes etc.)

shell and chassis disassembled with a look into driveline-setup

Two samples of the famous Borden's butterdish milk tank cars - in 1"-scale

UP F-7 in 1"-scale built from a Maxitrak-kit upgraded with additional details

Amtrak F40PH Phase III in 1"-Scale

and mated to a MHC (used as an operator's car)

Well, not absolutely 'streamlined' but in it's tradition:

Krauss Maffei's KM4000 CC in 1" -scale

starting with a rough glass-fiber shell

reshaping and adding cut-outs

more details

New material at: http://cheyrails.blogspot.com/2014/10/bnsf-front-range-sub-cheyenne-to-fort.html