Mixed Freight

As I currently work at a scrap yard, I can in fact confirm that looks like scrap! That is unprepared steel from the looks of it. Great...

More to come on this

Lionel Trains have been around a long time. Older tenders and boxcars have screw posts to attach the shell to the metal frame. Over the...

I can almost imagine Emma the organic switcher rumbling out of the engine house.

Yup, I expected to see a dinosaur.

Credit to Jon Bentz. Says it's the Rio Como Engine Terminal. I like the way it's put together. Wouldn't mind shrinking down and walking...

I learned a lot with this one, but I am bored with it. I have to admit that I did a poor job designing it for operation. Being honest...

Just started filling a corner with a ballast yard

a frosty morning at Leeds Sovereign Street Station

Post a random or recent photo of your models or layout. Taking pics of my trains and looking at my make believe world is one of my...

I make my own, metal of course. You can't glue plastic back together if the stanchions or hand rails break, but you can resolder brass...

I believe the preference for plastic has to do with them being thinner and molded in color. Plastic handrails have better detail in the...

I kinda' figured that is what you had in mind. I might have done the same thing.

Ok that's great. I was hoping to just daisy chain the common wire to groups of turnouts direct from the transformer rather than running...

You are correct. You can bypass the electrical switch and take the common wire straight to the center terminal of the turnout...