Thinking about adding another engine to my single oval track with sidings.  If you want to run more than one I assume that you have to have a mechanism so that only one gets power at a time.  Easy if you have 2 concentric track layouts, but what if you want to join the two tracks and make one circuit?  Do you put the unused engine behind a DC power blocking rail section?

Thanks,

Mark

Two kit boxes sat, waiting to be opened. Today I opened those boxes and decided to unpack the contents of each and put them together to make more rolling stock. They were slightly different 40' flatcar kits. HO scale and highly detailed, they were both Tichy products. The cars differed in that one included sideboards that were staked and could be dropped into the stake pockets, converting it to a gondola. The other was plain. Oh, and the plain one had 11 pockets per side, while the gondola had 10. I discovered this last detail was no small variation as my projects took shape.

A while back I bought some ho scale figures from amazon. 100 figures for 3 bucks. They are actually not too bad as far as details are concerned. In order to paint these little guys, (the figures are not on a sprue) they need to be mounted on a stick or holder of some sort. After a little cleanup and a good washing, I am planning on gluing them on a small dowel in order to hold them while priming and painting them..

This is from a site called brainjet.com (http://www.brainjet.com/random/7641/20-unbelievable-pictures-that-we-swe...) 

In New Zeland after an earthquake