Sometimes, when I'm trying to find a manufacture's website, it's challenging-Google keeps sending you to people who sell the product.  I've found a back door to find some manufacture's websites fairly quickly:  Wikipedia.

Use the name of the manufacturer--Atlas, for example.  Then use the disambiguation page, find the article on the train manufacturer.  There's a link to the company near the bottom. 

It seems that, in almost every pic I look at, the people just don't quite look right.  Even some of the most spectacular models, when there's no way to tell it IS a model, the people are dead givaways.  Any ideas as to why?

Ken Rickman asked how I made the part for the D shaft part for my motorized crane. I'm going to assume that you don't know anything about metal working. I'm not trying to belittle anybody here, I'm only assuming many don't get near this type of work and am sorry if it offends anybody.

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Way back when, master kitbasher Art Curren took two New River Mine kits and combined them into a chemical plant and wrote an article that I stumbled across. Having a couple kits sitting around, I thought this would be a good way to get back in the swing of things as I ramp up to refilling the basement with a N scale empire.