With the Inglenook Sidings layout I favor, the maximum load is five freight cars. It's a dead flat layout as well, no grade.
It's time for a new locomotive for the switching layout. It has to handle #4 and #6 turnouts with unpowered frogs without stalling, it needs to...
It's the paralysis of choice here. I've been parsing it over for hours, on and off. I think I'll be staying with HO or OO as most of my existing...
I've had a number of little half-completed switching layouts over the years. American trains, British, in N scale through OO/HO and even some...
End of the Spur is absolutely beautiful.
In this iteration I'm just going for general shape. I was honestly thinking of copying the Amtrak RDC style of cab and paint it red/white/blue...
Having said that, I just got an update that it was being put way on the back burner. So no easy cab end part to glue on. In the meantime though,...
Getting creative again. Proto 1000 powered chassis, so it'll have diesel under bits. Trucks won't be accurate and wheels will most likely be off...
It's normally a two-track main although a few sections are three-track. One of the two can be used for DC, the other stays DCC. I might just need...
The Atlas is a Silver Series from 2005 according to their website, with an 8-pin plug. The club was all about Digitrax when I was there.
The loco on my switching layout is an Atlas B23-7. Converting to DCC and possibly sound for it shouldn't be too hard, just costs money. The...
For a short period of time I was a member of a model railroad club a year and a half ago. Went to a few meetings that were always a good distance...
I got to play with one of the new Kato P42 locomotives that have the powered trucks. Definitely a nice unit, very smooth running. Of course, not a...
I've sold quite a few freight and passenger cars online without boxes. I've made clear they don't come with boxes and make sure to package them...
Got my hands on a Bachmann Metroliner to experiment. Cab is glued or molded to the shell, which makes things difficult since the Metroliner...
I've yet to find a company that makes a Budd SPV-2000. I'm guessing since it isn't a popular unit, ever. I tried bashing a Bachmann Amfleet shell...
I was there last summer. We had #40, a 1920 Alco 2-8-2, pulling our train. When we were running tender-first back to the station we sat in the...
What a nice layout!
Will the WDK-ATL-3 kit (which says it will work for an Atlas U23B) fit in an Atlas B23-7? They don't have anything listed specifically for the...
I'm in a trolley/tram mood again after months of not fussing with my trains at all. Thinking of making a very narrow, mostly straight shot shelf....
