Visited the Albany Live Steamers a while ago.  3 miles of track in the woods, lots of tunnels and bridges, made for a very fun ride!  

I jokingly refer to model railroading as my insanity.  These folks are really nuts!  I love it.

Folks, years back John Nerich Of Berkshire Lines fame did an article on hopper cars and lettering. In it he explored the possibility of not painting black plastic hoppers but applying decals directly to the plastic sides, assumedly after coating with a gloss coat. Afterwards the idea was to weather the finished product.

Let’s try some live video from the National Train Show today. They'll be fairly short ... but we'll do noon and 2 pm Mountain time.

The first one at noon will be a quick visit to the MRH Booth and we'll also take in a few layouts at the train show as a test. If that’s successful, we'll do another at 2 pm visiting with a few vendors.

I picked up a Atlas manual turntable, model 305. I can't decide if I should mount it on top of the table with the 1/4" slope or set it into the table so the tracks are level with the existing layout tracks. There is no roadbed in this yard area. The visual impact is my problem. I intend to brick it in with red brick paper or more lumber as per the turntable top. I'm modeling the early '50s. Does anyone have ideas or photos of what they did?

Whitey