This cropped up in the Overweighting topic under Locos and Rollingstock: The subject of train length and scaling down trains to represent trains longer than they are. a 25car train for example representing a 50 car protoype counterpart. The reason for doing, is to fit within the scenes of our layout, as well as the layout's physical capacity. Not many layouts, even clubs have the siding capacity for fifty-100 car trains, (watch, tweleve of you are gonna prove me wrong.

Interested in purchasing a 3D printer to produce HO scale model parts and maybe even containers. Would like a reasonably priced printer with easy to use software if thats a possible combination. Any help would be most appriciated.

Stephen.

Hi Joe,

In a post in the past you indicated that the password for MRH pdf's was the monthyear combo, ie Jan2013. That format doesn't work with the years 2012 and 2013. I've tried to look in the masthead, toc, etc to find a clue, but it eludes me. Are we able to deal with the security for those years or are they off limits ?

Felix Daigre

I purchased a laser cutter / engraver from eBay last week and have been enjoying learninig about it and experimenting.

So far I have been more than satisfied with my purchase. 

My primary objective was to automate the production of faceplates for various electronic devices that I build.  One such is my auto-reverse controller, the BARC.  Prior to purchasing the laser cutter I spent a good bit of time making each faceplate and labeling each control.  Now I can make them up in minutes.