I recently stumbled across an old site devoted to train wreck pictures at http://www.trainweb.org/brettrw/derail/bnsf/bnsfderail.html . If...
I remember seeing a photo of a string of flatcars carrying a bunch of these landing craft during WWII. The boats were loaded on their sides to...
I used to live in La Grange, IL, two blocks from the 3-track BN "racetrack" AND two blocks from the 3-track IHB, which crossed under the BN near...
I have pretty much given up on Hundman's N Scale mag, but I just LOVE NSR. They consistently have more photos than Model Railroader when they do a...
GHQ used to make Sherman tanks, half-tracks and other WWII vehicles, but they discontinued these several years ago. The only tank in their current...
Battleship Bill: You oughta stencil a big "E" on your forehead, plus a Presidential Unit Citation or two. You do amazing work!!!
I remember seeing the aftermath of a pretty spectacular train wreck on the UP main line between Kansas City and Topeka back in the 1970s. A dump...
Ditto. I was in HO (like my Dad before me), but switched to N in the late 1970s after much anguish. I like being able to do large industrial areas...
I considered doing something like this a few years ago when a friend built a module featuring code 40 track laid on wood ties using Walthers Goo...
The COHS has recently lost their long-time director of administration, Margaret T. Whittington, but the new guy, Mac Beard, should be answering...
My Dad was in HO when I was growing up (I have Model Railroader magazines going back to before I was born), and I was in HO for many years before...
Perhaps they belong to the International Brotherhood of Featherbedders! Featherbedding is the practice of insisting on purposely inefficent work...
Ed, your ship reminds me of what model railroaders were doing back in the bad old days before plastics. There were lots of articles in MR and...
Mike: How big is your layout? Do you have a page on RailImages, or any other pix that show the whole thing? It looks really good so far...
Thanks, Paul. Maybe we can get Pete Nolan to donate some ships?... :)
I worked for the CB&Q in 1968, before the BN merger (they thought about calling it the Great Northern Pacific, but dropped the idea because GNP...
On another thread on this forum, started by Paul Downs of KSONS, we are discussing the Louisville N-Scale convention to be held in 2008. If they...
Theorertically, you could mass-produce all kinds of things on a color printer, like box cars (less trucks and couplers, of course), row houses,...
If you model the early years of AMTRAK you can pretty much run whatever you want and get away with it. :)
I know we still have plenty of time to plan for this, so maybe Louisville can have the largest layout, longest mainline, longest train, or...
