Here I am, cash burning a hole in my pocket, wanting to buy a new loco and..... Nothing nada zip nil stocks everywhere I look. I confess my needs are a little specific as this will be my first brand new loco. Specifically, it must be either Atlas or Kato as I want a quality performer. I also want to install my own sound decoder and speaker as I don't fancy the factory installed options. Finally it must be either CSX YN3 or undecorated.

I guess we all have them,multiple industries on the same spur track, where we need to move cars being loaded or unloaded to spot another car. How common is this on the real railroads? Did the prototype have to secure the load  somehow before the cars were moved? Or is this  a mostly a modeling  concept,and the real railroads do everything in  their power to avoid this?,   

Thanks

Bill Wehmeier

Hello,

Sometime in the next year I'm hoping to start tackling this building (http://www.flickr.com/photos/5632/6288237868/in/pool-1793636@N21/)  With my birthday and Christmas coming up I was considering asking my family for a dremel tool.  I figured it would help with cutting all those large windows.   Do you have any advice when it comes to purchasing a dremel tool?  Would that be the best way to cut all those large windows?  

Thanks a bunch!