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Ladies and Gentlemen, from the long bygone days of REAL deluxe travel, here comes the 1894-1904 SP Sunset Limited which originally operated as the longest distance train in the USA between New Orleans and San Francisco on a 75 hour schedule! Today was the maiden run which lasted 3 and half hours...

Hi folks, I would like to hear your opinion about preordering items. Do you think it´s worth it or do you think it´s better to wait till the item hits the stores? What is your experience with limited edition items? I mean items of which you know that only a limited number will be produced? Do...

Hi guys, is the Bachmann GN Great Dome Lounge car matching the Rivarossi GN cars in terms of color? A nice but no soooo prototypical low cost Empire Builder can be put together exclusively with Rivarossi cars except the Great Dome Lounge, so it´s the only car of the consist which would be not be...

Hi guys, I just realized today that out of the 3 Rivarossi coaches and 3 Rivarossi sleepers of my brand new Canadian train, 1 coach and 1 sleeper is skirtless while the others (as well as the diner) have skirts (look at the pic to see the difference). I don´t know why it is like that but...

Hi guys, for my 10 car "poor mans Canadian" I´m using Rivarossi cars except the baggage dormitory which is a Walthers car and the dome observation which is a con-cor car and the dome coach which is a Con-Cor car too. To my big surprise, the Con-Cor dome coach height is much higher than the...

Hi, I´m Daniel from Germany. I´m 29 years old and have a lot of different hobbies. One of them being model railroads. I don´t have a real layout for now, so I set up a temporary layout on the floor 2 to 3 times a year and play with my trains for a couple of weeks. I hope one day I will have...