I'm engaged in an active search to find some logging flat cars to go with a lumber mill scene that I am developing on my layout.  The is based on the Walther's sawmill kit from a decade ago and I have been chasing after some of the Walthers logging flat cars that go with it.   Luckily we model railroaders  have a habit of acquiring things to squirrel away so with enough time I should be able to meet my "needs" on Ebay. This is the only real option for a guy living on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to acquire items no longer in production.

Hope someone gets a kick out of this.  The lengths we go to are amazing!  I've been cutting out decals to do my second AMR all-door that has been gathering dust on my shelf for a few months, and I couldn't resist taking a pic of this.  I hear that you can get blank decal paper and print your own decals.  Maybe I should have tried that.

I have recently puchased an HO Bachman Baldwin RF 16 and although it comes with a decoder installed I would like to install the Tsunami 608A Tubo decoder in it. I bought both the A and the B and plan to install the Tsunami in one engine and consist it with the other unit using the existing decoder.

I have never installed a decoder and wonder if someone can tell me where I can find a tutorial showing the necessary steps and modifications. Thanks in advance for the help.

Last week I had promised to show photos of my old N-Scale diesels from various manufacturers. These should be looked at while you think of the CommeNtary article in the September issue of MRH which happens to be quite good. Some of the photos are out of focus but you can still make what the photo represents. Keep in mind that these locomotives reflect late 1970s to early 1980s plastic moulding technology which is nowhere near what it is today. The mechanisms that drove these locomotives also left much to be desired.