I have a dead serious but absolutely off the wall question: would you pay someone to do part of the hobby that you absolutely hate and don’t care to ever get better at? I’ve hit a huge stumbling block with track laying, I absolutely despise it, which is a monumental problem in our hobby. I’ve survived a bunch of b.s. that none of you want to hear about, you’d think track laying would be small potatoes to me but I can’t/won’t do it.

Does anyone have another contact for Rob other than is e-mail address that is on his web-site.  I have attempted to contact him about three times to purchase a number of his products.

Thanks

Dean

I'm in the design stages of track plans for either an Sn3; or, On30 layout.  I plan to lay all track, for whichever scale I decide to go with.  The NMRA gives some information on track radius, although the information given is for 4 feet 8 and 1/2 inch standard gauge.  NMRA RP-11, in their Track Dimension Table on page three, Gives some Degrees of Curvature for curves for all scales.  I'm interested in designing a layout that could be used for either On30; or, Sn3.  I think that a 30 inch radius might work for either scale.  In O scale a 30 inch ra

The P&WV(N&W) Clairton Yard interchanges with The Union Railroad. The Belt Local with services the yard twice a day is here in the morning to do some switching. As the Belt Local enters the yard the Union Railroad with Crew #53 is coming down the hill on the Mifflin Branch to Mifflin Junction. After doing there switching the Belt local has some foreign road power on the head end .