In addition to locomotive and scenic atmospheric sounds (harbor recordings) to enhance my layout, I have recently found enjoyment in playing period music and old radio broadcasts from the 1930s and 1940s. These are particularly good for solo operating sessions, while modeling, or just letting the trains run loops. 

I am searching for a Bachmann Spectrum first release 4-6-0 HO-scale steam locomotive. I don't care what railroad, though I prefer undecorated. If you have one that you would part with please contact me. If you know of someone or some place I could get one please contact me.

Thanks,

James Six

Just in case people start wondering why one isn't started or where this week's is, the little nugget got hidden on the MRH Website Discussion page again. http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/31911

With my new layout, I want more reliable running, and so I have been planning on powered frogs and not counting on point rail contact for power to the closure rails.  I am in n scale, and my track from the last layout is all Peco.  So this weekend I started working on the modifications to my Electrofrog turnouts:

1) Removing spring since I will use tortoise slow motion switch machines

2) Cutting gaps between the closure rails and the frog (I believe some Electrofrogs come with the gap already present, but mine do not have the gaps cut)