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Well 7 managed to make a splash by piling up in Montana. Been all over the news. My first reaction was either a switch failure or a crossover failure. I have seen many trains, both 7 and 8 and CP cross over at Duplainville over the years - it sure looked like that for some of the cars which did...

According to the weerkend paper, the CP has cancelled the holiday train due to the kungflu. Although there will be an on line version.... stay tuned! The Aerojet

If you have been into model railroads since forever, you have some really old cars, like going back to the 70's.... don't you? Curious as to whom is still running Walther's Oscar and Piker in the original wood kits? Or Walther's original 70 foot car based on the CP super's car? Here is my line...

So I have been at the stage around here of a full house. There is no more room to add much to my pike at the present time. Well, yes and no. One thing I wanted to do for the past few years was to add a more modern fire station to the pike. So I bought one, then the Walther's big unit, but that...

AH YES! - another very good model but no room to place it. Too bad we don't have unlimited room on our pikes to place everything we desire. I had the same problem with the Walther's fire station. Another good model but where??? DO you put it? With everything else on the pike, and the size of...

Thanks for the replies - I will forward them to her -- it seems the Amos & Sara Darcy detective agency of Juneau Alaska will have a case in Idaho Falls --- keep ya posted. (They are on vacation with Amos's relatives. Sara is a Klungut, a native Alaskan. - They used to be the chief of police and...

MY wife writes, and now has 8 books in print. She asked me while working on the next one --- How hard is it to open / re close a box car door. She has an idea for a murder mystery to put Mr. Body into a box car, now empty I guess, on a siding and the railroad takes it away. Time passes and the...

Watching the ATCS down here, the CN and CP have low traffic volumes. Not much moving right now. On the CN there is one train up by Fondy, going north and one down by the state line going south. Nothing in the middle. CP is not a lot better, one going thru Dupy right now, but not much more as of...

actually Greg - according to the ATCS there IS a lot less traffic. Haven't heard train 1 around here, and the CN has not much showing all day. The CP is also quiet. Checking the Rockford sector, it is also very quiet. Car loading is down and not many trains are running right now from what I can...

Well, it has been awhile since I posted anything. I guess been busy and all that - so just to show I am still around I guess I could post this -- The 701 job, the local distributor train has dropped off a couple of auto racks to be unloaded. Saw then this caught my eye - the Super's train has a...

Okay, try these little trains... The blue on is the executive train, and the Amtrak is all we need! And that is the "short" of IT! Aerojet

Too often like me, I go my own way -- building small passenger cars after finishing the rebuild of my piker, lead me to build a small fleet of them out of old Walther's kits ... not many people today are into scratch building or kit busting. see a thread on this forum about kit busting a model...

Well the CP did it again. A month ago they demolished a mini van at Brookfield, yesterday the plowed thru a flat bed semi loaded with sheet steel ... The tarp on the loco is from the load of sheet steel. I don't know what causwed to loco to come apart like that -- see next photo. Just to let...

Second shift, late in the industrial park -- Welding in the middle building, note the blue flash... That red glow is the foundry working hot metal .... The local will switch this later ... The Aerojet

Okay, try this one! Like? The Aerojet

Monday night I was reading the paper about 4:15 and the news had "breaking news" - that there was a train car crash at Brookfield. One look at the clock told me something had been run over by # 7 - the westbound Empire Builder. Yup -- one 70 yo man dead. According to the news and the internet...

I hope this comes out better than it did on my unit -- This is my latest project. Building the Executive Train. Much like the ones by the UP / CN / BNSF this unit has it's own loco. This is the GP-20 which was repainted. The lettering is another story. Back in the early 80's I had "Herald King"...

For what it is worth -- THIS UNIT ROCKS!! Now I can go over and switch the business tracks - read that sidings - without having to run back and forth to the control station, or using the remote uncoupling unit at the same location. Just like the proto type, I can control the loco at the point of...

Well, I was looking for a loco to make into an "executive" train loco, painted entirely different than our current ones. Time to go loco shopping on Evil bay. Now what type of loco would I like? Something in a GP? SD? Or something else. 15 - 20 - 24 - 30 - 33?? - 40? Lots to look at. But I did...

IT depends on what you are buying or selling. Somethings are cheaper on Evil Bay - some things are not. Mostly I find it to be a source for hard to find items, or things which are no longer available on the open market. I am quite sure there are more places to sell things rather than Evil Bay...