Very helpful site, thanks! I was over at my parents' house for a few days in between finals and I moved most of my trains there under the tree....
George, your kitbash looks great! And I think that's a great idea to use spent CO2 cartridges, as I've got a huge amount of spent ones lying...
Congrats! I have a similar situation with my layout too, it's coming out to be a dogbone shape, so mostly straight running, but the loops at...
Well, that certainly seems to be the truth. You live and learn I guess. I really have no problem with the Lionel ore cars, I have a set of three...
So i chanced to buy this locomotive on ebay, because i really liked the look of it, and compared to my Bachmann ten wheelers, this is a "big"...
Atlas makes (or is about to release) an IT steel caboose. I know it's not a revenue car, but still something. Brooklyn Locomotive Works -- Your...
Wow, I just realized how few tank cars I actually have! My fleet consists of two beercans, a kaolin, a 23,500gal, and a 33,000 gal- all Atlas.
Indeed! I had 2 Bachmann northerns, a prairie, and Lifelike 0-6-0T from maybe ten years ago that just stopped running smoothly after a very short...
That Magic 8 ball also told me that I will both pass and fail the same final exam...
Yeah, the scale difference is there, but since the older cars are physically a bit smaller than the modern ones, it balances the overall view out...
Very nice! I'm jealous of how much room you've got for laying rail, my parents would kill me if i did that in their basement.
Thanks for another very helpful response, EMD! I usually have no problem mixing up some of my older cars with my FA, say 40' wood reeefers and...
Haha, but the fun of AWD! Though I got stuck with an automatic (used to be dad's car) so I'm that quick off the line. But back on the (RR)...
As probably quite a few others have, I started G scale with a Bachmann Big Hauler set. I still have quite a few pieces of equipment, but with all...
Definitely. That's why I try to partition it out. Trains usually come in the winter months. Astronomy in the spring and fall when it's nice...
Yeah, Kato does have an uncoupler. Haven't tried it yet, but if I decide to use unitrack on the next module in my layout, I'll probably try it...
GEVO's would be sweet! I would pick some up in a second! Winning the lottery would be great, because then I could fund my hobby spending...
Wow, very interesting. I was a bit curious about that myself since I was looking at 100 ton hoppers in G scale and then thought: "so why are...
Thought you might appreciate a bit of last minute input from a fellow young N scaler. I had the same decision about three years back and actually...
That sounds like a plan then. I can worry about getting a pair of wide turnouts, and later pick up some >5ft curves (maybe some 8ft.). Though...
