I am in the analysis paralysis phase of my layout design and I have come to the subject of the slow motion switch machine.

I have been looking at a few and I have come up with a list of desires and wants.

Hi,

I've tried some Googling and searching but can't seem to find any answers (which doesn't mean they aren't out there...).  Apparently Kingmill is done with the radical flats line and they've sold everything to a new company.  (Check out their website: http://www.kingmill.com/) Does anybody know who (if anybody) will be producing these kits in the future?

Thanks!

After a week away in dreary, humid, rain on me every day Florida, I returned to do a bit of work tonight on the Idaho Belt at the paper mill. I'd been tweaking the track plan for this area because while the prototype mill this layout is based on is on a branch that sees no through traffic inside the mill, my version will. And that makes me wonder about the placement of my power plant spur and the pulpwood spur.

I have an opportunity to buy a Rivarossi 0-8-0. It is a later production as it has RP25 flanges. What other improvements (if any) did they make to the locomotive? I am wondering about the motor especially. Hoping they ditched the old 3 pole one.