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Model Railroad Warehouse product line (MRRW)
A few years ago the owner of Model Railroad Warehouse (MRRW) had decided to offer up the product lines for sale. The mrrw.com site always had an interesting catalog of O and HO kits. Does anyone know if they were acquired? The owner's name was Mr. Merle Rice.
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ScaleTrains publishes "How Model Trains Are Made"
About one year ago ScaleTrains published Part 2 The Construction Phase of this video. Part 1 was missing til now. A few days ago "How Model Trains Are MADE" came out. It covers design and mold making as well as the production process from part 2.
The video is about 38 minutes long and shows the complexity of model production from idea to the finally assembled model.
Dominos Sugar plant operations, Baltimore, MD
In another thread about Salt operations there was this mention, but I didn't want cloud that thread with my response.
eastwind said:
Did you hear about the fire that destroyed (?) the historic Domino Sugar company plant right on the Baltimore harbor? There were some overhead pictures but I didn't see any rails. I was wondering if any sugar was ever shipped in and out of there by hopper.
Question for the new NMRA director at large
This question is publicly addressed to Chris Palermo, the NMRA's new director at large:
Several years ago a member of this forum was building and updating us on his construction of a German HO layout set during World War 2. In one instance, he showed a structure that displayed the Nazi flag. You took great umbrage at that and posted to express your outrage.
Weekly Photo Fun - Apr 25 - May 1, 2021
It's another week . . . post 'em if you got 'em.
Here are a couple photos of an HO scale car knocker's shack that I built back in the '70s. RMC had an article for this little structure many years ago, and I used it as the basis for the model, making a few changes with the windows. I recall that a manufacturer offered a kit for the building years later.
Reminder, play nice.
Recently, a thread on here had comments on it like this ...
Such a layout can't be taken seriously, because EZ-track is toy track ...
Just to let you know, I received emails referencing that thread and those comments and telling me THIS is why they do not frequent our forum — it’s just too elitist and unfriendly to any approaches that don’t follow the straight and narrow.
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.
Timesaver - Two in, two out
I'll start by saying:
- I understand that the Timesaver concept and layout is not prototypical
- I'm sorry if I've posted this in the section
- I hope I haven't rambled too much
I've mostly seen two types of Timesaver layouts, mine looks like the singleboard version from October 76 issue of Model Railroader:
World's Greatest Hobby Show
The online WGH show was Saturday. I have seen once post that Atlas announced a new locomotive model, the MPI MP36 passenger locomotive. Were there any other new products announced?
Weekly Photo Fun - Apr 18-24, 2021
It's another week . . . post 'em if you got 'em. Last week saw some great photos, but was somewhat terse. Show us what you've been doing this past week!
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