A mere 18 months after its birth, the La Veta Pass Route is going to have to be dismantled, hopefully to live again in a new location. This...
I always forget to stop and take a pic of something when I get it done, but this time I remembered. I got all 15 tracks for my roundhouse wired...
If you're going to do that, at least get somebody hot for it.
Either tape or decals is a great idea. I've been using Sharpie fine or extra fine point paint markers and I am definitely not happy with the...
Here are a couple of pics, I hope they are helpful. I'm sure some of the purists will object to my liberal use of electrical tape, but it works....
I've done about a dozen of these on gp7's and i9's and on gp35's with two fails, 86% I guess is OK as a success rate for them I guess.... The...
I would use Woodland Scenic foam inclines for those. You didn't mention what the grade is, but they come in several and they are easy to use and...
I hear your pain on Atlas C55, it took me two years to accumulate enough C55 to start the first phase of my layout. Can't comment on ME flex, I...
The only trick I ran into installing mine was making sure the polarity of the tracks was correct on either side of the "gap", or the two areas at...
I can't believe the last time I posted about my layout was in April!!!! Sorry about that, hopefully no one was waiting with bated breath. It’s...
Primavw, to answer your question about powered frogs, Atlas and ME code 55 turnouts electrically isolated frogs that can be powered to the...
I have one I use quite a bit for switching in my yard while I am doing testing. When I first got it, it ran rough, like some of the driveline...
I am modeling a specific portion of the Rio Grande, using the same types of locomotives used in that division and trying to capture some or the...
I am modeling the Rio Grande's La Veta Pass Route between Pueblo and Crede, but compressing 250 miles into it about 5 scale miles, however it is...
Problem is that there are not many paint companies that can do small batch, fine grind paints such as model paint. Even more difficult is finding...
I have a little background from past paint dealings with Testors and frankly, they were a difficult supplier and had a lot of quality problems,...
I’ve made some progress on the LVPR over the past few weeks,and I thought I would post a few pictures of my progress. I’ve finished wiring up the...
You are going to need a pretty large space to model a steel mill, especially in HO. I was going to do one in N scale on a 4' by 8' peninsula...
Heavier, harder to cut, nail and drill through, but it will work. I put a Z scale layout on foam over mdf because I had tables made out of it and...
I bought seven of these from several sources to relieve some of the pressure on trying to source Atlas C55 turnouts and I planned on using them in...
