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Ma and Pa # 43
I am looking for a artacal for building the #43 loco of the Ma and Pa from tyco parts and wooden body. Does anyone know where I can find this.
Kit built switcher?
I've bought this little switcher on EBay, nicely put together but I would like to find out more about it.
Can anyone name the kit maker and also the manufacturer of the real prototype?
WANTED: vendor of custom etching or parts production
We're looking for a vendor to do the end details shown in the photo below for a caboose kit production project that's otherwise substantially complete:
Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but just over a month till we see the big boy running (I think)
Union Pacific recently put out this update: https://www.up.com/media/releases/190314-big-boy-schedule.htm talking about this years early steam schedule. I'm not fully sure based on wording but this will be an impressive site anyone here planning on making a trip?
Really old model railroad home videos - aka a nostalgia trip
While sorting through a box of old VHS videos and DVD's, I came across one that I recorded years ago, chronicling the construction of my layout from back in the late 1980's / early 1990's. I set down and watched it. What a nostalgia trip!
I remember holding that old camcorder on my shoulder as I walked around the garage filming. It reminded me of the time I spent building that old layout.
On a whim, I converted about four minutes of that 90+ minute recording (which covered about 2 1/2 years of construction) and loaded it onto YouTube.
Prototype Shortline Switching
As I was reading the April 2019 MRH Running Extra, I noticed that one of the articles mentioned that the modern age is almost all unit trains and there's no/very few switching opportunities. As a former conductor for a short line, I'd like to give a detailed description of what a typical day is like in the modern (2011-2013) age. The area I used to work (company names omitted) was an industrial park that was about 3 miles wide (east-west) and 5 miles (north-south).
Flux for frogs
Saw SOMEWHERE a new flux for soldering leads to frogs, especially MEWS. ANYBODY remember what that was?
Railroads name everything
Below are some of my newly installed location names for the Milan branch. My friend, Clark C., graciously helped me by lasering the signs out of two-tone composite signage material. The top color is ivory with an underlying brown.
Shipping Empty Cans
Back in the 70's I worked for a Can manufacturing plant. They were very busy and produced several different sizes and types of empty cans. The cans were shipped by both rail and truck.
Soda and Beer cans were produced in large numbers. A production line would make several hundred per minute, with the cans being automatically palletized. These were loaded with forklift trucks.
Help with an interchange on my 1930s logging plan
As I often am developing layout concepts more than actually building a layout. My recent plan has stepped away from photo type NP and back into the freelanced logging layout. I am trying to fill a space on the outside of my helix with some form of interchange.
The concept I'm after is a track arrangement that would enable cars to be set out for interchange with a larger Road
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