I'm looking for a better brand of needle files.  I have several files now, but do not know the brand names of them.  I think most were purchased at a train show a few years back, and are off-brand made in China types.  I have one file that is noticeably higher quality and works much better than the others, but again I don't remember the make of it, or where I got it. Perhaps some of you folks that use needle files regularly, and have a preferred brand can point me in the right direction. 

A continuation to story I began to tell in Modeling 22 Stories Up, this blog is intended to follow my progress of the actual layout's construction.

Recently my brother purchased an Atlas Gold Series Diesel loco which comes factory-installed with DCC and sound. After changing some of the sound CVs, we found that the loco would not respond when applying the throttle. Sounds worked fine, but no locomotion. In DC mode, locomotion was fine. Resetting to factory defaults did not help.

I am looking for a way to make deciduous trees without leaves; okay, maybe a few stickers, like I often see on Oak trees in the winter.

Does "Chapter 14: From the ground up - realistic deciduous trees made fast" from the "Model Railroad Volume 5 - Scenery & bridges - pt 2" DVD cover the winter version?

Is there a previous thread that talked about trees in winter?