I've been thinking of buying one of those steel trays with magnets for holding structures together while gluing but the other day my son-in-law was dumping an old tower pc.  I took off the sides, hammered flat a couple of tabs and now have two large, flat sheets of steel.  Adding some cheap Pound store magnets has given me an economical alternative.  Money saved to spend on better stuff!

Jim at Highball Graphics strikes again.  He recently released a decal set for Delaware & Hudson subsidiary Greenwich and Johnsonville.  I just can't pass up a bright orange RS3!

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Nick

I wrote before about my dislike of just about all the switch rods I've ever seen on model railways (including my own).

The standard PC board has two things wrong with it. First, it usually doesn't look much like the prototype, which is typically made of a flat steel bar a couple of inches wide and about half an inch thick. Now, there have been some very fine PC board switch rods that look great, but they will be even more exposed to the second problem.

I currently purchased the glacier gravel company and the valley cement plant kits from walthers and was wondering if anybody had any ideas on how I could incorporate them both into one design and send me some track plan ideas to assist me in my final design. I had a look at the lime ridge hercules and portland railroad in 101 track plans but I am still confused about the positioning of the buildings

I thought I'd share some photos I took of my O scale switching layout that I exhibited at the Railroad Prototype Modelers Meet last weekend.  The meet ran from Thursday through Saturday.  I'd like to thank Joe Delia and Bob Kosic for allowing me to participate in their show.  It was a lot of fun!

Just in case you begin to believe that energy on Pembroke has been diverted to Brio-Pembroke, I did actually finish installing the points on the south section of Proto:87-Pembroke last week. Each of the points needed only a little bit of judicious filing before it would sit perfectly against its stock rail and the test truck ran through the right way repeatedly.

Once I started, it went quite quickly, and I was done all four sets in about 90 minutes.

A while back I posted some videos on Time Table and Train Orders (TT&Os).  There were several requests that we show how to build a model railroad timetable.  Doug Matheson and I got together with Michel Boucher and he took us through the concepts/considerations and steps in building the timetable for his D&H railroad.  Due to the help of Randy I was able to post the Excel documents and a PowerPoint presentation that Michel generated.  These will be extremely useful for those getting started using this method.