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North American Railroads don't often make the news over here but a great article appeared on the BBC News website today and I thought I would share! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8010221.stm

As most of you know, Britain has a brand new steam locomotive, the Tornado. Wikipedia has a greatly updated entry on the loco which pretty much brings this great story up to date! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1_60163_Tornado

Was in Hamburg on business for a couple of days and went here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA To say I was amazed was an understatement!

I was at my local annual Train Show at the weekend and one of my purchases was a HO Bachmann Silver series 40" 3 Dome Tank Car in Transcontinental Oil Co' colours. When I got home I noticed a small sticker on the back of the box stating: "Warning, this product contains a chemical known to the...

A great site for British Steam videos for any of you interested on what went on/is going on, this side of the pond! http://steamtube.ning.com/

We need Operation Lifesaver on this side of the pond! Look at these idiots! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7878211.stm

The new Tornado steam loco makes it's first run to London! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7876162.stm

Extreme Trains - For UK based members A heads up to those of you in the UK that the History Channel (and History HD) is beginning to show Extreme Trains, the series that began late last year in the US, here starting at 9.00pm tonight and on History+1 at 10.00pm. I know what I'll be watching on...

Whenever I visit my LHS I usually only see older citizens checking out the train stuff while younger folks tend to be more interested in R/C tanks & cars. When I visit train shows too, the majority of the layouts have older chaps manning the throttles. I realise that the world has an ageing...

Just wanted to wish all you guys over on that side of the pond a very happy Thanksgiving day, it's been an honour these past few months sharing these forums with you all and I am thankful for all your help, advice and inspiration. Have a great day! :)

A wee heads up for you lucky folks in North America, the History Channel will be showing a new programme, Extreme Trains beginning November 11th. It looks great and I hope our History Channel shows it here at some point! http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=60696

:eek: This has to be one of the most bizarre reasons why a passenger train has been delayed! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7693386.stm :)

Thought some of you would like the following, which I thought were wonderful atmospheric photographs! Enjoy! :) http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/10/gallery_trains?slide=1&slideView=3

I got my first Broadway Blueline loco yesterday, a UP, GE AC6000 and I have to say for my first sound loco that I am very, very impressed. It looks great (although not the most detailed loco I have) runs and pulls like a dream and the sound is just great. This definately will not be the last...

Bombardier have just announced a 486 million dollar plus order for a brand new design of electro-diesel locomotive, 26 for New Jersey Transit , and 20 for Montreal's AMT commuter system. The new locos are to be powered by both overhead electric and a diesel engine (although obviously not...

Thought you guys would enjoy this wee story! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7555010.stm

This is one of my latest purchases Grateful if anyone has an idea of what colour I should paint the tracks to make the two dozers I have more realistic! Thanks George

Just won one of these on Ebay for my wife who is collecting together SF items so that she can begin her own layout later in the year! I haven't bought Bachmann before and all my US locos are either Athearn or Atlas, so I was wondering if I have I made a good, or at least reasonable decision...

Saw some pics of the prototype UP Heritage locos in particular UP1989 in the Rio Grande colour scheme which I thought was just brilliant. Have any of the model railroad manufacturers, Athearn, Atlas etc ever produced any HO RTR versions?

Thinking of getting this: http://www.modeljunction.info/estore/product_info.php?products_id=11645 but haven't come across this manufacturer before. Any input as regards quality etc would be gratefully appreciated! :)