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new shelf layout design
Well it looks like I will be retiring my first layout this spring and moving to a more modular shelf layout instead.
Here's a picture of the new design for the main module. Its a 2'x12' urban industrial switching layout.
New to Omaha area
Hello,
I am new to the Omaha area, coming from the east coast about a month ago. Can anyone tell me what the good hobby shops are to visit, where there might be train layouts on display, and if/when a train show comes to the area and where?
Thank you,
Henry
HO Track
I am retired now and my wife and I want to spend some of our time building a new HO layout. It's been almost 50 years since I have been in the hobby. Things have really changed in those 50 years. I had the old brass track and now there is brass (not used much it appears), steel, and nickel silver.
Walthers Rotary Dumper
A while back I got interested in rotary dumpers. The rotary that got my interest was the Salida Colorado one used to transfer bulk loads from narrow gauge cars to standard gauge cars.
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/79835
Decals over decals?
Hi all,
I am painting/decal-ing/weathering a PRR P5A box cab E-loco around 1951.My question is that I have MicroScale blank Keystones for the doors at either end.These however will require the road number in them.So,...should I shoot some gloss cote on these or can I just apply the numbers over the blank Keystone?
Thanks for any help,Dr D
New product announcement (Miniature Ball Bearings)
For those that like to mess around with loco mechanisms, car bearings, drive trains, animation or just stuff that moves, I have added a range of miniature ball bearings to the Proto: 87 Stores stock of useful items.
Quick overview is:
CL&N Boxcar
To All: My goal in painting and lettering freight cars is to do some of the small roads. One of these was the Columbia, Newberry & Laurens, a short line in South Carolina. It was one of the "Golden" roads of that state. The decals are by Gerald Glow, a fine maker of decals. I need to add a Tichy roofwalk, #58 Kadee couplers and metal wheels. The CN&L became part of the Atlantic Coast Line RR in 1924 and later part of CSX.
Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout
Rio Grande Southern: Stock train
Moving stock on western railroads has always been big business and no less on the narrow gauge. When a large block was to be moved off the Rio Grande Southern to market the RGS and the D&RGW worked to move the stock with in the time set by law. Law was animals could not be in the cars for more than 24 hours, the shipper could make 30 hours at his risk. When the move was to be made the railroads had it set up so the cars would go from loading to transshipping point in this time.
Getting started for the first time - again.
Over the past few years I have been collecting motive power for a layout that I have finally started. If I strike the correct keys, the photos will be posted here. If not, well, I'll try again! All of the models are 1/2" scale and use On30 track gauge for Gn15. If all goes well, I will make further comments...
Tom Yorke
Atlanta, GA
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