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A few years back, I was helping a friend build the benchwork for his layout. He had an interior aisle around a peninsula where he planned to install a roundhouse. He didn't want hard corners on the peninsula as they would make it tight for 2 operators to be in the same area. I proposed a...

Progress is being made on my new shop/layout building. 50x50 with 12 foot sidewalls. My layout area will be 25x50. I had originally planned on a 50x50 for just the layout, but economic realities have changed the plans. I've attached a snippet of the layout design I had started for the bigger...

A few years back, I was asked to build the benchwork for a custom HO scale model railroad for a young man who was 6 years old. His parents were very well off and wanted the best for their child. I was amazed at how adept the young man was when running his trains and how he physically handled...

Greetings, While passing through Colorado and New Mexico a few years back, we came across a unit coal train burning down the mainline. The thing that caught my eye was what appeared to be a duplicate air line on every car in the consist. This was the only train I've seen with this set up. Does...

New to this forum, but not to model railroading. I recognized a few names on this forum so I figured why not jump in the pool and take a few laps? The ''other" forum I was on seems to have crashed and burned so I gave up on trying to use it any longer. I had started a decent layout back in the...