Well, "Great" may be overstating it just a touch, but it is what it is.  As those that have been following my pitiful blog over the last few weeks know, I have decided to switch from N scale to HO scale for two main reasons:  I've been collecting as much or more HO stuff (that mostly isn't available in N) which has created a divide in my hobby allowance forcing me to put off doing stuff on my N scale layout.  I felt more I needed to pick one and go with it, and the availability of stuff I want in HO wins hands down.  

Anyone has any experience with this 3D printer ?

http://www.ultimaker.com/

cheers, Leo

South Oroville Railroad - Track Plans

this is a short slide show of my visit to fertizona. my partner for the day was Paul Schaus. he is here visiting his family & me. this was our last stop of the day. this would have been videoed but, the battery in my camera went dead. pics in this slide show were taken by Paul....more text in the slide show
thanks for watching
vinny..aka..bnsf6951
www.bnsf6951.blogspot.com

We have all seen them - Bachmann's Heavy duty flatcar was sold in almost every one of their larger sets sporting stakes and Logs.  They come in either red L&N livery or blue Great Northern livery.  Now, before you scoff at the car, hold it up next to a Bluebox Athearn Heavy Duty flat and you may notice they are very very similar to each other.  Very similar indeed!

To wrap up 2012 I've created a photo tour showing some before and after shots on my IAIS Grimes Line layout. All scenes were completed in the last 12 months.

Hickman Road/US Highway 6

I am quite happy to report that at this very moment, my test train has successfully run a couple laps on my layout, thus it now RUNS!

Trackplan:

I'm excited. Going full throttle on building the bench work. I'm lucky due to getting used wood. The L-girders were already assembled and holes drilled for wiring. This will be Multi-level with a helix part mushroom.