I am building my second Athearn 200 Ton Railroad Crane (from a kit bought at a swap meet) and decided to install some lights on the crane, a la Dr. Greg's wonderful build article last year (the Athearn motorized crane). I reviewed his images and description of how he created the electrical pick-up wipers for his model and found that I could do the same in a slightly different manner.

What does the term head free rail mean?

Does anyone know if GATX tank cars were seen on Canadian branchines in the late fifties or in the early seventies?

I will soon get to where my Dover yard area will have all trackwork in place.  So then I need to decide - do I move on to the laying of more trackwork for the next location on the layout, which then leads to the next section of benchwork to build, etc, or do I start to landscape and scratch build structures for Dover and put off extending the line for some months.