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Walkin' the Road Job
It may be difficult to appreciate how much walking is involved in rail operations. In fact, this may be even more so in modern operations ever since they got rid of the buggies (cabooses) and eliminated the front and rear end brakeman, and moved the conductor to the head end. Yet reverse movements still need to be protected so on road trains, this often means the conductor has to walk the length of the train multiple times.
Ghost Rail Denver and Rio Grande Low Grade Line.
D&RG was the first to transport ore from the open cut operations at Bingham from the mine to the mills. They lost their contract just after a few short years. 84 wonderful construction photos of that line.
Chippewa gets its first locomotive
I have been in modeling for some time but my road never had its own locomotives. Plenty of cars but ran UP locos. Part of this was due to not having a paint scheme I liked.
Since I grew up in Wisconsin I liked both the CNW and SOO. I decided to paint the locos in SOO off white but eliminate the bloody nose. I also decided that the original logo was a bit dated. I ran across the Delmarva Central Carload Express logo and liked it. I made a variation of the logo for the Chippewa.
Cross buck bases
Hi Guys, Do any of you have ideas for mounting flashing cross bucks on a concrete (plastic) base or where to buy them?
I've gone through my scrap stuff and some other pieces but nothing resembles what I'm trying achieve.
Thanx Steve Klein
dcc 308 error decoder 2 months old
Was working good, and I was fooling around with the settings for back EMF speed control.
Changing them on program track, going back on the MAIN, running a train forward- backward- fast-slow.
First Operating Session
After a couple of months planning I had my first operating session on the new Georgetown Branch layout and have to say that this was the smoothest session I have ever had on one of my railroads, let alone a newly constructed railroad.
Price of lumber
My other hobby is investing and economics, so I've been reading about the high price of lumber and plywood.
Perhaps what I've learned will be useful to some of you. Not that you can't learn it by reading the same stuff, but I suspect having a short summary here will be thought useful by some.
How wide is pinstripe for O scale?
I want to lay down some pinstripe for my Road for an O scale layout. How wide is the pinstriping for this particular layout if I have to buy it from an auto parts store?
My ultimate TOMA layout (T-Trak)
After much thought and many starts & stops, I have decided to change my focus in scale and the size of my goal layout.
The biggest issue is that the place I have is not conducive to what I can come up with in HO scale.
Probably the main issue is that the room is small & any layout will have to share the space.
Ok, that probably means a smaller scale.
The assortment of supplies in N scale is more than adequate, yes not as much detail, but that is all right..
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