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For an idea how real railroads run their consists,go to Railpictures.net,where you can see just about every combination of loco imaginable,in pairs back to back,elephant style,or Southern style.

If you run the third loco in reverse,then you don,t need to turn the loco consist around to be able to drive them forwards from the other end cab. Ron

Nice looking truck !!!

I went to one today, at the local soccer stadium. It was a 10 minute wait to get in, with plenty of people in the queue. Once inside. there were plenty of stalls, with everything from brand new rolling stock, to old Dinky toys. I go for American locos, and rolling stock, so for me, the pickings...

Looks to me like Evening Star.

I,ve not seen a train filmed like that before, a great idea !!! I can see that you,ve got a monster layout there, I can only imagine how many hours its going to swallow up, in doing all the scenery. Ron

a great video, thank you for posting it. Ron

The view in the other direction

Thanks for the posts. I,ve not done a thread about my layout, but here,s a view from a different angle. The front loco is one of my latest buys, a Kato Dash 9. Ron

A shot from my layout with my Nikon Coolpix camera.Its small enough to sit on the rails and gives a good engineers eye-view. Ron

yep, via Altoona Ron

PRR Heritage loco The PRR heritage loco sure gets around !!!!

It looks better already. Ron

Everytime I bring a new loco home, I search Railpictures.net to see if I can find a photo of the loco in service. Ron

A nice looking loco !!! heres a photo I found of the full scale one http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=405968&nseq=0 Ron

The Norfolk Southern shops at Altoona PA, have both a turntable, as well as a transfer table, but from what I,ve seen, the transfer table is used for making up freight car sets. Ron

You could glue small magnets inside the continers to keep them stacked together. Ron

You could build both ideas onto the same diorama, a racetrack with a pits scene,which is just one long gas station. Ron

Something like this, as seen in Altoona PA in 2012. Ron

I tell my girlfriend,all the time, I don,t play with trains, I run them. Ron