I want to model the ATSF in the 1960's, I started drawing up a few free lance trackplans but after I got a Santa Fe RDC (thier only 2 RDC's ran...
thanks for all the information I will have to show the car on here once I get it finished
That link said that they were painted to two tone gray later but I thought that only the scout ran two tone gray cars.
So the fluting on the car in the photo I have is all just paint? PM me if you wan't to ge to rid of that roof
I got a rivarossi diner from ebay and I want to make it look like the prototype photo that I found. I am not trying to make a exact replica of...
here are some pictures of the shops and industries in ottawa this is a view of the car shops. Ottawa made new freight cars up through the 20's...
I got my scanner working now so here are some of my maps and pictures I think will help (you will have to click on the pictures to make them...
I was going to post my maps and pictures of ottawa that I have but my worthless scanner decided that it didn't want to work with me today so I...
Thanks for the reply i'll be in 11th grade when school starts up again. I would like to know more about being a hostler, whats it like, what is...
I'm only in high school so the only job I should worry about now is fast food but I have a strong interest in working for the railroad later. I...
Thanks for showing how to make consists, I knew that trains would not be all of the same railroad but I didn't know how many foreign cars to have....
I set my layout for the early 60s because as much as I love steam finding a cheap and reliable steam engine in n scale is a little difficult. I...
Thanks for all the information you posted it helped alot with my model railroad planning, the information on the passenger trains was interesting...
I am trying to (loosly) model the Santa fe in the early 60s. I need some help on what a typical consist would have. A few questions I have is:...
I'm still working on building my passenger train consist. I'm now hunting for n scale diners. I'm trying to (loosely) model the early 1960s, I...
Thanks for the website links, that answered all my questions.
Thanks for the tips, If I were to have a ice house on my layout how did they ice express reefers in passenger trains? Did the whole train run...
I want to include head end equipment on my passenger trains but am unsure of the operations. My question is were reefers ever cut out of passenger...
