Hi everyone, 

I was wondering if anyone had any experience of getting this locomotive, 

http://www.spookshow.net/loco/bach262.html

around the Kato unitrack 315mm 45 degree curves?

I may be moving into a larger place soon, allowing me to do more with my layout, and that curve would make the most sense in the environment. Likewise I'm thinking of adding some steam to my roster. However, I don't want to snap any wheels off ...  

I have run across a very interesting line of couplers from a Japanese manufacturer IMON.  Here is their website:  http://www.imon.co.jp/MODELS/GOODS175.MBR/IMCOUPLER.  I'm wondering:

I've lived here in Georgia all my life and one of my families favorite getaway destinations that is fairly nearby has always been The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I knew that, way back when, before it was a park that there had been logging operations. Not being much of a proto guy anyway I'd never been really that much interested in it and assumed that  "The Smoky Mountain Railroad" that ran back in that time was a logging line.  Well not quite.

I am building my rolling stock for my 1920’s layout.  It’s in Maine, near the coast, on the B&M, with the Maine Central close by.  I’m trying to sort out what I should have for rolling stock, particularly what road names should be present.  B&M and Maine Central, of course, CN should have a decent presence.  The Pennsylvania Railroad should be present in significant quantities, as the layout will include some industry, resulting in machinery and steel coming north from the forges of Pennsylvania—there is a small shipyard or boatyard on the