Hi All,

Its been a while since I posted anything about my layout, more to come about that in another post, so I thought I would post some photos of my efforts. These are all unpainted kits that have been painted and assembled. I tackled the Atlas Silverline GP40-2 first and finished with the Athearn blue box mechanical reefer. This may seem an odd choice of order for first projects but in my defence I had six of the Athearn kits and it made sense to do them all at once when I felt more comfortable with the painting. The P-S 60' waffle sided box car is an ExactRail kit.

I recently purchased a Walthers ALCO Rotary Snow Plow with tender. Its like new; hasn't been out of the box or run frequently. When I put it on my DCC layout I expected the rotary plow to run...it didn't. I noticed a blue wire running between the plow and tender and wiring to the trucks. Can anybody tell me what I should expect from this set-up, operation-wise? Thanks

ok so i have this older west side or united (top of box and papers got lost by my ex wife) santa fe 2-10-10-2, the foam has rotted. where can i get new?

my search fu is very bad, people can find things  right away, while i search for days and find nothing.

also a good way to clean the old foam off the brass (no paint).

I saw this photo from an NKP train and noted the signs on wooden poles on a corner of each gondola. We can't tell what they say but it's not something you see modeled very often.