I am looking at buying a On30 Bachman Porter from e-bay but I believe they have been improved etc over the years, how can I tell which are the newer ones.

Do the numbers on the end of the box give an indication

Tonight I was on my way to my first op session (Yes it was fun) when i was stopped by a crossing signal.  A CSX train was coming out of the port of Manatee and in it was the "Hand of God" car.  Pretty cool to see something reported here first.

I am a bit stumped.  I cannot figure out what color the L&N's passenger fleet was in the late 1930's.  Any of the color photos I've seen of them are from the 60's and they are all blue with yellow lettering and stripes.  My best guess is that they painted them in a standard "Pullman Style" scheme of green with gold roman letters.  Any help given is greatly appreciated.   Ron S.

We now have some of the best models we will probably ever have, Assembled rolling stock and engines, DCC, sound, constant lighting and most running like Swiss watches, while still being reasonably priced. But uncoupling cars is still in the prehistoric age! I have bought or tried most ways to uncouple cars, but nothing seems to work all the time. Lifting a car to uncouple just ruins any kind of realism you're trying to accomplish.