Y'all missed the significance of this announcement. RailAmerica has indeed owned the Kyle Railroad corporate assets for years now. The physical...
Alas, building model railroad locomotives, cars, and structures from kits not only requires skills no longer taught in schools (how many boys...
From a different era... 1. PRR Class XL boxcar, 36 ft. with a plug door, tens of thousands were built between about 1905 and 1919. 2. ACL Class...
Number of cars on layout Try this one on for size. There are about 1.2 million freight cars in North America. 100 cars is very close to one mile...
The economy has had no affect on my model railroading - it's been more health problems lately. Not debilitating so far, but reducing my desire to...
We don't speak the same language Just read the comments by Allen Ishida of Tulare County, and the statement that "Union Pacific is planning to...
Celbrity model railroaders: The one with the urinating clown might have been Michael Gross, he is an excellent structure modeler, even had an...
Idle freight cars in storage According to the Association of American Railroads, the Class I's alone have enough freight cars in storage right...
ConrailDan is right. No doubt the trackage belongs to the State of Ohio, which leases it to the MAW, so the bridge is the state's. The operator is...
Steam locomotive parts Needed for steam "kitbashing": Headlights: IC, SP, etc. type, GN, NP, etc. type, PRR type, carbon arc type. Air...
There were a number of short line railroads in the Oil City-Warren, PA, areas that used Shays and other geared locomotives and connected with the...
Steam drag race Those are Finnish locomotives, from the stacks and boiler fronts.
Era? Since no one asked yet, I will? In what era are you planning to model N&W's Clare Yard? There are some fine N scale N&W steamers, like the...
Model or prototype? For the prototype see: http://www.steamfreightcars.com/ There are a couple of my N scale models shown there. :embarassed:
Purposeless posts And just what is the purpose of this post? Perhaps just to annoy those of us who spent our railroad careers trying to get...
Yup. Texas has been using EPA grant money to buy its rail lines environmentally friendly switchers for several years now, going back to the MPI...
It's really much easier to substitute a No. 1129 coupler in the existing truck draft gear box. I've successfully done two that way. If you have an...
I suggested Microscale 60-1200 decals and Scalecoat II PRR Freight Car Color to Dave on another forum where he asked the same question. :cat:
Seniority is only for union jobs. Seniority may be everything in train and engine service, but only about 15 percent of railroad jobs are in...
Jerry, how about some clues as to how you created the "high tide line" on the rip-rap rocks along the shore? I've got a 6 foot bay on my railroad,...
