Looks like BNSF is going natrual, LNG that is. Time to model some LNG tank cars.

http://cs.trains.com/trn/b/fred-frailey/archive/2013/03/07/bigger-than-the-shift-from-steam-to-diesel.aspx

Bernd

I need recommendations for HO street lamps. I had some Model Power lights but they did not look right. No wonder the base is a scale 3 feet in diameter.

Does anyone have a better solution? I currently have the Woodland Scenics non working metal castings that really look correct. But do not light.

While I am at it stop lights too. Era is 60's to 70's, local rural/urban.

I've updated my blog again - with lots more photos of the tunnel work I'm doing.  It's kinda hard to make tunnels look realistic, so I'm attempting some new ideas, and also focusing on visual separation and tricks, and on building believable terrain shapes around the tunnels.

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2013/03/tunneling-update.html

- Steven Haworth
RGS history - http://www.rgsrr.info/

to load/unload on a branch's mainline? I have a particular situation that would require such an occurance, but since there only a couple of trains a day up this branch, it makes no sense to move a bunch of buildings and add in a siding, if the loading can be accomplished while the train is at the far end of the line. The cars can simply be picked up on the return trip.

The caboose would be left at the station at (not yet named) and the conductor and brakeman would ride the engine to the end of the line, make setouts/pick ups, and then back down to get the caboose.