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The only older Atlas loco I have is an RS11 made by Kato, pretty old but runs like new.

After many years and having spent 10s of thousands of $$ on this hobby I decided I would try and build my new layout and acquire my locos and rolling stock on the cheap. I have a second hand model railroad shop close to where I live, it is located in a backyard shed is open on Saturdays and has...

The guy with the Camera, now that brings back memories, I have been a camera nut for over 50 years and used to take walks along the beach with my camera so I could take pictures of sunsets, everyone knew me in our little town but one day there was a young woman murdered behind the sand dunes...

I wanted to try out a new video camera so toddled off to the local railway station to get a few shots, after a couple of hours I had two big and burley railroad cops hop off the train and asked what I was doing, I told them I was just testing the camera on local suburban trains, one made a call...

Theres more than one way to skin a cat Larry, I have never seen mountains done that way before and I am sure they will look great when finished. That is the beauty of our great hobby, so many different ways to do things.

Thank you for looking and the kind remarks.

Always on the lookout to save a few $$$ and enjoy scratch building as much as I can I decided to make eight tunnel mouths out of 1/4 inch Balsa, this is how four of them turned out.

My Favorite loco is the Alco World Locomotive DL500, many of these were sold to Australian National RR and used in 3 loco sets on mixed freight trains. The sound of these locos give me goosebumps. http://www.thedieselshop.us/DataDL500.HTML

Hi There Tuna thanks for the welcome, although I do have a few steam locos I will be running diesel only on this layout.

Thanks to Paul and Bob for the welcome its nice to be here.

Hi there, my name is Dave, I live in Australia and have been involved with model railroading on and off since I was a child, I am now 68. Since 2005 I have built three N scale layouts, Japanese. British and American. Because of the reliability and running quality of American locos I am in the...