I have found that a very good cleaning fluid for my airbrush, available at Michael's, Hobby Lobby, and art supplies lick Dick Blick. It is a "Brush Restorer and Conditioner". It's main use is to restore unusable brushes with dried paint. Although a bit pricey, it has no odor and will work with both acrylic AND solvent based paints. I first run clean thinner appropriate to the paint and finish with the "Conditioner" that works exceptionally well to dislodge pesky dried acrylic residue.

Usually in the early morning, the Erie yard job at JA Tower can be found switching the the GE Compressor Plant on my Central New York and New England (CNY&NE) Railroad on the East end of my Northfork Yard.  The structure is only 5 inches deep and has 2 staging tracks running inside of it.  They run the length of the yard holding trains for a connecting branchline. It was built using a custom blend of City Classic modular warehouse components with lots of roof details.

Would anyone know the current operational status of the North American office of ESU?

I may just be choosing the wrong windows of availability, but over a period of 3 weeks I have not been able to get a response to emails, nor been able to join the ESU forum; and phone calls have only told me that no one is available and I should try again later.

I'm a big fan of Santa Fe's paint scheme but I'm also a fan of modeling from the 90's through current. Since this scheme ceased to exist around 1975 or so, I could go the easy route and just say my railroad so whatever but I would like a better story than that. Is this a matter of "patching out" the Santa Fe on each side or should I leave it alone? I have two Proto GP30's, an Athearn GP35 in the scheme, and I have my eye on those Scale Trains SD45's which admittedly too big for what I could do in my space.