I am headed straight into a time and money desert.. and have begun to realize that I need to signficantly reduce the scope of my next project.. primarily to reduce the cost of the project. With the new baby due any day now, it has begun to sink in what paying for two kid's in daycare is really going to mean.. its going to be a time to worry about how we will pay the mortgage (seriously!).. not how I am going to build a model railroad.

Lets just consider the cost of rolling stock..

Hello all, I just joined and am posting a brief intro. I live in Ft. Gratiot, Mi. and am modeling the CN/GTW from the Sarnia/Port Huron tunnel to Flint, Mi. (where they actually used to build automobiles). The time frame is 80's and 90's to present in HO. At present I have a 4X8, but am in the planning stage to expand (Have a large basement with nothing in it), using DC with block control ( I know, I know, but am doing my due diligence on DCC). I'm leaning toward CVP "easy dcc", but haven't made a final decision yet.

Some years ago, MR published a list and specs of all the then currently available steam locomotive chassis from the likes of Mantua, Bowser, etc. IIRC, they also included OOP Varney and John English. Does anyone remember that article and what issue it might have appeared in? I don't remember enough about it to have a snowball's chance in hell of finding it by searching at the MR website. I believe the article appeared in the early 80's.

I saw this posted on another forum. There is a new company coming in a few days. They are coming out with 3 new high quality HO scale models.  Heres the link    www.exactrail.com/index.html.

        They have already been running some ads, and they look real promising