Hi All,

I am modeling the late steam era in the West.  In referencing photos of engine servicing facilities I've noticed a few pits near the loco tracks that look like they are full of "sludge" or possibly old oil.  Whatever it is its shiny thick liquid.  Two questions:  Anybody know what that is and I'm looking for ideas on what to use to model "goopy shiny" black stuff.

Thanks in advance

I am planning on having a small corn field on my layout. I plan to use JTT ho scale summer corn stalks. I am trying to calculate how many corn stock that I will need. What is a good spacing that I should have between plants and how much spacing should I have between rows?

So here’s a question:

I’m looking at trying to model modern HOlight rail.

I’m powering it with a Stanton drive.

I want to create changing destination light boards like you see on busses and transit trains.

So my idea was this:

Install an Arduino Nano with a tiny LCD screen made to look like a destination board.  The sketch just displays destination info repeating or static not sure yet.

It struck me that BAR is a very nice candidae to model. A rather small compny in sceic surroundings with a very intersting roster ranging from old diesels from F3.s , BL2.s to early Geeps to a rather modern times all these mixed with a batch of new and used Gp38.s. ANyone out there modeeling this? As they had all 4 axle units in their later years, it is pretty interesting to model. Cheers!