I now have a surplus of structures from my much larger past layout. I don't know if I should give them away or keep them for the unlikely event of a future larger layout. They are too delicate in my opinion to mail.  What is a model railroader to do?

Hi everyone.

Getting on well now but need an answer to what should/might be a simple question. I am using Woodland Scenics fine blend grey ballast for my general track work but in the yard I would like to use cinders. 

In those circumstances, how would the dividing ine between the two look? Would it be sharp or blended - and where would the cut off be?

This is the main track:

Hello everyone,

I just got the Aggregate Transfer facility which increases the number of loads that the Glacier Sand and Gravel can ship ! Yeah, more operations !

As I work on the rather tedious process of assembling the silos, panel by panel, I sit here wondering what composes the real construction materials? Are they precast concrete or some kind of metal product? The picture that Walthers presents gives me the idea that they are concrete, but I am not sure. The roof really screams,"I am steel, not concrete..."

Has anyone kitbashed a Central Valley through girder bridge into a skewed girder bridge?  The abutments are angled and the ends of the girders are not perpendicular to each other.  Through truss bridges are often skewed as well.  I was recently exploring the George's Creek RR of the former Western Maryland (formerly Cumberland & Pennsylvania RR.)  There are many crossings of George's Creek on skewed girder bridges.

Robert 

Kalamazoo, MI