As previously posted, I am modeling John Allen's Gorre & Daphetid.  I will not try to reproduce every blade of grass or even every structure.  But I think that it is important to duplicate the two viaducts as close as possible.  I have many pictures, but I'm not that good at estimating dimensions.  Here is a good picture.  I was first going to measure the track width, but realized that it is at an angle, so that would not work.  Then I took a small freight car and measured from the ground to the top and it got about two inches.  Comparing

I just want to pull the cab off of a recent two-truck HO Bachmann Spectrum Climax. Removing the obvious two screws on the bottom loosens the cab but, it doesn't fall free! Something in there is hanging up! Bachmann's exploded parts diagram is of no use either.

Short of blindly disassembling the entire drivetrain to expose the boiler and frame screws, does anyone happen to know if there is in fact an simple way to remove the darn thing?

(Not real eager to give it a HARD yank!)

-Eric

I hope this dont start a big commotion...but I have a digitrax Zephyr, and few different computers running windows XP and Windows 7. What would be the best connection path for DCC to Computer for me to run Decoder Pro and dabble into the JMRI realm? I know digiteax makes items has a brand new 4 version box. I've seen sprog mentioned loco buffer. Is there one or any other way that stands out??

It’s now time to fish or cut bait.  One of the reasons it took me so long to get started is I didn’t know whether to start with a flat table top and use Woodland Scenics (WS) incline/decline risers or do what John Allen did and use an L-girder type of construction.  A third method was to start with a flat table top and do a Cookie Cutter (CC) approach.  Here is a picture of my table top where you can see that I used a 1/4 scale picture with 12 inch squares to draw the plan on the bench.  As I mentioned in my first blog, I liked the idea of a flat table top fo