Good morning MRH'rs,

I am looking for some suggestions from the model railroading collective...

For a current modeling project, I am looking for a larger format, thin monitor. Specifically, I am looking for a screen that is about the size of a standard 27" monitor but is as thin as an iPad. 

My constraints are: no restriction on width (in fact the wider the better), no more that 19 1/2" tall, and 1" or less thick.

I've been collecting HO rolling stock and engines for over 10 years, but never had a layout. So just recently I have begun to plan a NYC layout and gear my HO collection more closely to the prototype. Thus, I was reading through Terry Link's Canada Southern consists in order to determine what NYC freight trains may have looked like in the late '40s and early '50s. But then this consist appeared: 

http://www.canadasouthern.com/caso/freight-consists-070147.htm

Hi everyone,

I have a mystery on my hands. Can anyone identify the cinder conveyors seen here in Willmar, MN on the Great Northern Railway? They were both installed in the mid 1940s to replace manual pits and were retired not much later.

Thanks!

I'm working on some batches of log flats, based on the Tichy flat car kits, for our Sugar Pine Lumber Company layout. Typically I'll be doing about six at a time which is enough to make numerical progress without driving myself crazy.