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It has been a while, but I think Liquidtex Mars Black might be the ticket. It dries flat black, but you could add a drop of titanium white to lighten it up.

"TS" Wasn't that what you were supposed to visit the base chaplain about...to get your ticket punched? Where were you and when? I ran around central Montana in a blue truck '65-'69, keeping the capsule drivers in business. Only time I got up to the 564th was as a field stupidvisor!

Now, if you want the light on the top of the cab to light when the engine is running in reverse, just hook the LED opposite. The light on the front end will be off and the light on the cab will light.

You don't say whether you locomotive has a forward headlight and a reverse light. If so, when you get the polarity correct for the engine going forward, the rear light should be dark. When you throw the reversing switch to make the engine run in reverse, the headlight should go dark and the rear...

Those T2's were really a weird-looking beast...long and slender. with the boiler consisting of two sections bolted together! As for the M4's, I kitbashed three of them from Mantua Mikado's. If I can figure out how to post the photos, I will. As for the O5a's, we have one at the Colorado...

I would definitely vote for the Burlington S-4A Hudsons. Although it would be very specialized, one of the streamlined models, particularly "Aeolus", which was "Keeper of the winds", (affectionately called "Big Alice the Goon") serving as backup to the diesel Zephyrs would be neat and easy to...

There is a lot of that going around! I have an around-the-room layout in a 14 x 14 room, with several yards, and there are a bunch of box cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock, plus 18 Mantua Mikados and Pacifics sitting on shelves in my library, and am out of room for them! And my wife...

BTW, in case you aren't familiar with the term "0-5-0 switcher", that's a human hand (usually four fingers and a thumb).

I also used Plaster of Paris, with Modge-Podge in a couple of layers. Of course, I painted the plaster with latex-based paint for color.

I have them at most grade crossing, and several in places where derailments are difficult to access. As far as uncoupling ramps are concerned, I haven't used many of those since I converted all my couplers to Kadee. I use them mainly in the yards.

Something unusual would be a ten-coupled (2-10-0, 2-10-2 or 2-10-4) that would negotiate 18-inch radius curves, with the center drivers blind, and a traction tire on one flanged driver. While 3-D manufacture could permit less expenses, enough weight might require die cast boiler and certainly...

Model railroad curves are generally much sharper than the prototype. Although wider curves are always desirable, Atlas Snaptrack curves come in 22, 18 and 15 inch radius sizes. Those are to the centerline of the track, so a 180-degree curve in 22-inch means a 44-inch diameter circle plus another...

If Hershey and his wife hadn't gotten delayed, they'd have been on the Titanic. Then no Hershey bars!

Golden Gate Bridge and major highways in New York blocked by pro-Palestinian protesters! On the Bridge, people trapped in their cars. Can't get to work, or doctor's appointments. Some of these protesters have CA'd their hands to the cars or used "sleeping dragon" pipes to prevent their being...

Those old Athearn blue box PA's were pretty good. Before other manufacturers brought out EMD E-7's, I took the bodies from older LifeLike, and stretched the frame from some PA-1's. They still work fine. You did a nice job.

Most of the end-cab switchers with 4-axle trucks should work fine on 15" radius curves if you don't try to run them too fast. (Prototype wouldn't either.) F7A should also work okay. You might have to check if the coupler will deflect sufficiently with 40' freight cars. The draftgear might...

Sadly, when Caboose moved from Broadway to Lakewood, Colorado, the pandemic plus lack of variety of inventory sealed their fate! Other than a place out in Aurora (East side) which handles other hobby stuff, the only place in Metro-Denver is up on West 55th, just east of Wadsworth. They are...

One factor as to whether you run steam or diesel or both has to do with what era a modeler runs on a layout. Many of us model the "transition" era of the 1940's through the '50's. Except for steam excursions or tourist railroads still being run today, steam locomotives disappeared from mainline...

The only problem I have ever encountered with Peco turnouts is one case where wheels would sometimes pick the frog. Solved it by placing a .010" thick shim inside the guard rail on the one side. I think Peco Code 100 are actually OO scale, whereas they now advertise Code 83 as being "to American...

I wonder if a NWSL Stanton drive could be installed as one or both tender trucks? Some prototype steam locomotives had booster units either in the four-wheel trailing trucks, or in the lead or rear trucks under the tender? Don't know if it would work due to the difference in wheel diameters...