I wrote before about my dislike of just about all the switch rods I've ever seen on model railways (including my own).

The standard PC board has two things wrong with it. First, it usually doesn't look much like the prototype, which is typically made of a flat steel bar a couple of inches wide and about half an inch thick. Now, there have been some very fine PC board switch rods that look great, but they will be even more exposed to the second problem.

I currently purchased the glacier gravel company and the valley cement plant kits from walthers and was wondering if anybody had any ideas on how I could incorporate them both into one design and send me some track plan ideas to assist me in my final design. I had a look at the lime ridge hercules and portland railroad in 101 track plans but I am still confused about the positioning of the buildings

Just in case you begin to believe that energy on Pembroke has been diverted to Brio-Pembroke, I did actually finish installing the points on the south section of Proto:87-Pembroke last week. Each of the points needed only a little bit of judicious filing before it would sit perfectly against its stock rail and the test truck ran through the right way repeatedly.

Once I started, it went quite quickly, and I was done all four sets in about 90 minutes.

It looks like the On30 modelers are generating some steam here. So in the spirit of scratch building something other than a "critter" which seems to be boring some people I thought I'd do a rolling stock scratch build.

This blog is based on a three part article that Dallas Mallerich III wrote about in the April, May & June  2001 Model Railroad Craftsman, "The Basics of Resin Castings".  Wow, 12 years ago. No 3D home printer available then.