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caboose14's picture

New Industry on the Washington Northern

Sat, 2012-04-07 10:05 — caboose14

With the expansion of the railroad to occupy the whole room my layout is in, several things needed re-arranging. One of which was the Raven Pulp and Paper Mill. (More on that coming soon) The corner that was once staging under the old paper mill site was now an empty corner, so I decided to ad another industry as long as I was going to be replacing scenery.

Section of the E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

Sat, 2012-04-07 05:10 — ferroequinologist1

To All: Here are  representative views of the two levels if the layout. Work to be done, of course. Display shelves and railroad signs on the wall.

 

Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

DCC locomotive installations

Fri, 2012-04-06 16:37 — Texas-steam

I look forward each month to Bruce's DCC articles.    I'm waiting for a "how to" article on brass steam locomotive installations.   

rgs_info's picture

Amazing innard photos - from the ongoing rebuild of Rio Grand Southern #20

Fri, 2012-04-06 09:24 — rgs_info

Anybody interested in some amazing photos of the innards of Rio Grande Southern #20 - a 4-6-0 undergoing a very extensive rebuild?  There's photos here of the frame, firebox, bolsters... even the inside of the rebuilt tender:

http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2012/04/rgs-20-rebuild-continues-w-photos.html

conrailandrew's picture

N scale dummy couplers

Fri, 2012-04-06 04:48 — conrailandrew

Hello,

I've been looking into N scale dummy couplers and was wondering if any one had any experience with Bachmann, Con-Cor or any others I might not know about.

I want couplers that will couple up when pushed together but I can uncouple manually.

Since I have a lot of rolling stock to convert, Micro-Trains couplers are rather expensive.

Anyone have any input?

Thanks,

Andrew

traintalk's picture

Scratch brush weathering

Thu, 2012-04-05 18:39 — traintalk

One of the methods of weathering wooden freight cars is the use of a scratch brush, Micromark has it listed as a "Mini Brush with Brass Bristles."

This method uses a few steps. The first step is to airbrush a model with a base color to represent raw wood.  After that dries then airbrush the car color, in my case this is boxcar red.

DKRickman's picture

Better replacement for traction tires?

Thu, 2012-04-05 13:22 — DKRickman

Traction tires.  They do their job, but they're the source of problems like loss of continuity and they break, come off, pick up junk, dirt, etc.  Plus, the rubber is very sensitive to any oil, such as the grease in No-ox.

dave1905's picture

Rule 251 Technicolor

Thu, 2012-04-05 13:20 — dave1905

I would like to add some technicolor to the Rule 251 discussion. The GCOR rule (assuming it is the General Code currently being used by railroads) isn't 251 anymore its Rule 9.14 if somebody wants to look it up.


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