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At the local train show last weekend, I bought a HO scale depot that appeared to have undergone the heavy Krylon paint treatment. As a test, I sprayed a couple of the sides with oven cleaner last night, and lo, after about an hour or so, the paint was coming off. Looks like a previous owner...

This is the first version of Chip's plan after I made modifications to it. As you can see, it's a mirror image and rotated. From this perspective, you are sitting in the 'operator's pit'. The existing module is to your left, so in essence, you are sitting in the inside elbow of the L. The...

As I mentioned elsewhere, I've decided to replace one of my 4x8 modules with Space Mouse's 2007 4x8 Contest winner. So, now I've been looking at how to integrate that trackplan with the existing module that will remain. That module was also a 'stand-alone' trackplan, but I modified it slightly...

Some folks may be wondering what the Model Intermodal group on Yahoo is all about. Usually in the context of asking some question about stack trains and TOFC. This post showed up yesterday: ----- Okay, here's your trivia question regarding TTX Gunderson Twin Stacks: As some may know...

I posted some further info on GN's O-8 Mikado in that other thread. In the meantime, this is the license plate on my car.... :D Kennedy

As I was looking at my PDA files to count how many locos I have (in the Gen Discussion area), I figured I might as well report on the rolling stock side. According to my records, which is current as of Nov 06, I have 235 unassembled freight cars (these are still in the packages, some of them...

No, it's not what you think. Recently, we had a thread about why buy brass locos when there were so many good plastic ones out there. And, I said that for some modellers, like us GN ones, brass steamers is the only way to go. Over the weekend, I packed up some steamers to send to my...

There was a thread over in the General Discussions area regarding this. I had my camera out over the weekend, and took a couple of quick shots. The BLI one isn't the best, since it's a black loco. I have another one, but it's still in the box, and wasn't convenient to dig out. :D Kennedy

This was a thread last year sometime. I was digging around looking for something else when I found the package of drawbars somebody recommended I look into for my version of the Long-Runners. These are made by State Tool and Die, and are called Universal Drawbars. They're made for ore...

Well, I doubt this is the kind of message that Bob wanted to start off here, but.... Russian made the comment elsewhere about buying basket cases to do create stuff, and I replied that I do buy e-cheap-o buildings at train shows to 'modify'. I've done this for a while now; I can see the...

Pics from the two layout tours I took during the convention. Three, Curt LaRue's Pennsy Panhandle, Sam Parfitt's GN, and Patrick Stanley's SP Donner Pass, have been featured in recent Railmodel Journals (main reason why I signed up to see them). Also visited were Steve Dishion's N-scale UP...

I've started uploading pictures of the various layouts that were at the National Train Show last weekend. There is some fantastic stuff there; the Lego ones were amazing. This is just the first batch, I have a bunch more to come, including the combo Z-scale layout that had 30 scale miles of...

Not sure where to put this, but decided that it probably fits here... The big news here in SE Michigan is the sole winner of last weekend's $208M lottery. Ticket was bought in Port Huron (no, it wasn't me). Of course, the media is all over it, and they interview folks who play, and ask the...

Just a thought on this matter. I've said before that I have the NCE system; a couple years back they introduced a radio control version, which also included the capability to retrofit older controllers to allow them to use this as well. I bought my system prior to radio control being...