I am thinking about how I want to do my fascia labels, and running into a bit of a conundrum, or perhaps just something I don't have my own opinion/solution on due to lack of much operating experience.

I want to include on my fascia labels with town names, tracks, and with bi-color LEDs for the turnout positions.  But my use of space is such that there can be quite a lot of space between turnouts in a town.

Take the small stop of North Hampton, shown here from the track plan:

Hello, I have a vintage ahm/rivarossi 4-4-0 with a tender drive. I have noticed that often when it goes around the curves the tender seems to slide up the pole it is attached to, which makes it stop as it comes off the tracks.  I opened up the tender and could not find anywhere to add some weights. Any suggestions?

Does anyone have any experience designing and then having printed 3d parts at the N scale type sizes.  I have an idea for making the signal parts that I need for my layout via 3d printing, but I dont have my own printer (yet) so I am interested in what I need to use to make them IN, as well as where to get them printed.  Any suggestions would be very helpful

TIM

Looking for ideas to enhance the look of this crane in regards to details.

So far I have weathered it and put some brass grab irons on it.