While surfing for an answer to MDC's 4-6-0 & 2-6-0 models as to there prototype I ran across a very interesting 2 page thread. The second page is the most interesting with some interesting discussion on motors by poster "fwrite".

Carefully read the third to last post on page two and learn about cogging in a DC motor.

Page 1:  http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/131845.aspx

Yesterday saw a milestone moment achieved, with Bridgewater's new station building finally being installed.

The prototype building was burnt to the ground by arsonists in the early 1980's.

This building, was built from Evergreen clapboard siding, various north-east woodshapes, balsa, card and styrene strip.

The Kanunda and Emu Flat Railway is operated monthly on a Monday evening. A crew of between five and seven operators enjoy the two hour session.

The you tube video clip is a tour of the layout that I have recently put together.

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While I am not hand laying any rail, I am laying down track and one spike at a time seemed appropriate.

If you have been following my blogging you will know that after building my GE 85 ton steeple cabs, I need something for them to do. So I built a mine. Then I needed some place for them to take the rock, and well I didn't have any place.

I had posted this video kind of an afterthought the other day and I think it just got lost in the mix.  It really didn't explain my thought process on how I achieved these results so I decided to make a full "how To" after I had already done this locomotive.  This is just a short 2 min video showing just how well the older BB locos can run.

Greetings, 

With no apparent end to this miserable winter, I've managed to get some work done on my room-sized HO layout, which models modern-day CP operations in West Toronto. 

I won't repost it all in this space. If you're interested, you can visit my blog here. 

Here is an update on my progress on the BNML. Morris to St Jean...

This diagram shows the area covered in this update.

I've made lots of progress since my last update. Got the big curve in and all of the track up to the south end of St. Jean.