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I have an idea for a fun project. As I have been “going through” my old stuff I have found a few TYCO, Life Like and the like cars (even a Varney 34’ hopper!), A couple of USRA style box cars, three tank cars, a couple of flats and a caboose or two. Chances are I’ll find a couple more pieces. I...

I found a Life Like set in my backyard storage today. Included is a GP with a single power truck and rotted off rubber traction wheel. I put it on my track and it didn't work or even make a noise. There were also a couple of "action cars operating log and pipe loaders. This stuff is...

It's been many years. I spent this summer in he hospital having surgeries, losing half my colon and surviving operations that 60 plus year olds don't survive.... 90% of the time. Luckily I decided to return to my life's hobby near the end of last year. I put together a test track when I got...

As some may have read I am returning to the hobby..... interuppted by three surgeries this year. I'm looking for some Atlas #6 and #4 switches (or Shinohara or Peco which are probably to expensive) I'm also looking for some 22 and 24 in curves. I could also use a couple of WYE's. all code...

I've had serious health problems, including three serious surgeries this year, mostly from early March on. Finally on the road to recovery I put together a 4x4 foot test track, with 18 inch radius curves, using 30 year old "junk" track.... lots of extra work. Lots of problems with old track...

OK, I'm an old guy, returning to the hobby after many years. In my 30's I got quite good at scenery..... although much was done very differently. One piece of the confusion was "plaster cloth" Woodland Scenic's or otherwise. I finally watched a Youtube video. Plaster cloth basicly replaces...

For four weeks now, not including last week when I was ill I have stopped by Hobby Lobby and looked around, then made a single purchase. This weeks purchase was a giant bag of Woodland Scenics "ready to grow" trees. The bag is $19.99 from Woodland Senics, and somewhat less on ebay when...

As some of you know I'm back to the hobby after a long time away, some 25 years. I was lucky though, I found 22 boxes of "stuff" generally not much track, loco's or rolling stock but a little. Among those things was a brand new, made in the 1960's in the box AHM/Rivarossi 4-4-0 Reno (Cab...

I was jumping around eBay testerday and I ran into this guy: http://www.ebay.com/itm/231186781726?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT . This is a really neat model of an unusual prototype locomotive. The motor is a little weak the trucks, gears are solid and quiet...

Wednesday is my first "lumber day" layout building is that close. Like everyone planning a layout I've been thinking in terms of 48 inches up as a starting benchwork height. Today something hit me. I'm 62 now, and disabled. Standing is a problem for me. Last Sunday I spoke in Church for 45...

Going through a big box of stuff found an Athearn blue box full of motors. I remember this box from thirty years ago, it's where I threw old motors, good bad watever. I had the idea that I might animate something... Ok cut it out, I wasn't an astronaut either. Tonight I tested them and half...

Tonight I was working on some cars from my junk car box (all that there were left, haha) and I casually grabbed my square Testors 1oz bottle & brush out of my tool chest. The scent is intoxicating (meaning fun smell not glue sniffing) anyway I began to wonder. When I finished my work kinda...

These are intrigueing, especially if you are using code 100. I can see many places where 18 inch straight sections can come in handy. Nickel Silver, a foot and a half long, actually straight. Take a look...

First if this has been covered lead me to it and I'll shut up. Here goes, stripping paint. Previously I used brake fluid, then some transparent blue stuff that came in liter bottles from the hobby shop. I also had a large (16 inch capacity) ultrasonic cleaning rig that would work on any metal...

I have another thread going so if this is a boo-boo the powers that be can move this. Somehow today I got impaitent after dinner and began looking at the stuff I'd found... and there is more to go through. In addition to trying to read online and re-famialize myself with whats available...

I’m really happy I found this site. I’m a lifetime model railroader who has been“out of the hobby” for twenty plus years. I’m now 62 years old and my health isn’t the best. Also, I don’t have the typical budget neededto build a first class model railroad. That’s the bad news, there is good...