Not that I am anywhere close to having any sort of Ops Session (though the gameplan is to have the first one - hopefully - next year), it is fun to at least think about how the layout is to be operated.

Delving into the past of a location will be the activity I undertake on this Blog. This idea was inspired by myself and three other folks two of which I suspect did not know they were doing the inspiring. I have had discussions with several folks on the site about my free lanced line and followed many threads and blogs on here that talk about research of the prototype and modeling it. Others talk about being bitten by the rolling stock buying bug and have rolling stock in more than one era.

Greetings one and all. With the upcoming dismanteling and moving of the C&E, it gives me an opportunity to do some underneath wiring before I reassemble it in its new home.. My question is how do most of you connect your feeder wires to your bus wire? Do you use suitcase connectors? Or solder directly to the bus? Or some other method? And if you solder right to the bus, what is the easiest way to strip out a small section of insulation where you are going to solder.

John

I have rolling stock mainly consisting of older tyco and some trainset quality life-like cars that I am using for my switching layout. They all not have body mounted Kadees and the question remains should I convert them to Metal Wheelsets? I have 18 cars being used on the "layout" and was curious what is the cheapest/most economic way to get enough for them all? I as many of you know have an extremely small budget so whatever help you can give would be appreciated!