Here is some informational on the San Diego Division Fall Meet at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum on Saturday, November 14th, from Ben Sevier. Bob Chaparro...
Day out with Thomas started today and will continue the 11th, 14th and 15th of November at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, CA. I was there today...
The Hemet-San Jacinto Railroad Club has openings for new members. The club operates modular railroads in both HO and N scales, however, modelers in any scale...
How about a hobo camp or hobo jungle (anyone know the difference?) for your railroad? Here are links to some examples to inspire this small piece of human...
The Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society will hold a mini-meet on February 5-6, 2010, at the San Bernardino Amtrak/Santa Fe Depot, from 7:00 am to...
The Great Train Expo ( http://www.trainexpoinc.com/ ) will be in our area three times between now and early January. The first show is December 5-6 at the...
The California Southern Model Railroad Club welcomes you to join us for our Fall Open House  Saturday, November 14 - 10AM to 8PM Sunday, November 15 - Noon...
group i live in Orange, California, and I have a question? a few years ago i was driving at the intersection of Harbor blvd, and McArthur bld in Santa Ana, and...
Hi George, The Orange County Model Engineers group operates a "ride-on" train at Fairview Park on Placentia (not Harbor Blvd.) in Costa Mesa. You can come out...
I have two railroad bridges that cross channels. What color and location of navigation warning lights are used on the bridges? One bridge is a truss bridge...
Being an old "Coastie". When coming back into port we had the saying "Red, Right, Returning". Hope that helps. Ernie Foster Corona, CA. ... From: michael...
I have not yet put my layout together. In the last few years I've bought locomotives and cars from Micro Trains and some are several years old. I haven't...
No, it was moved to Kansas several years ago. The car was the ex-Santa Fe heavyweight business car 30. It had a notch cut in the roof at the rear for a camera...
The train room is comming along very well. I am at a point where I am going to be starting bench work and layng in the lower staging over the next few weeks....
Eileen in So Cal, Probably not until they're many years old and/or have been used a lot. You'll know because they won't roll easily (cars) or run jerkily or ...
Thanks, Bob!  I read about it on the Z Scale yahoo groups. I had not heard of the problem before. My knowledge of locomotives relies on whatever I can...
I saw someone else expressing interest in an operating session.. I am as well and live in the Antelope Valley. If you need an additional body and want...
Having some problems with my N Scale layout at the store. I've cleaned the heck out of the track, but it seems the loco gets dirty wheels within a few...
If you are interested in coming up to santa barbara you would be welcome. WE operate the first saturday of the the month. Most of the operators come up from...
Have you checked the wheels on the cars you're pulling behind your locos? If those wheels are dirty, they are just putting down the dirt from the wheels...
Environmental build up takes seconds to happen.   As you power up the track it creates a type of static electricity a positive ion that attracts dust and...
Gary's house was the sight of an NMRA meet. It was my first experience with an "operating" session. I was the "conductor" on the "Big Boy". I had a great...
We had this dirty wheels problem on our exhibition layout, caused by the amount of people and the dust in the air, it was overcome by adding track cleaning...
Some random thoughts on the subject. Do you ever or have you ever used any "cleaning liquids" on the track. If so this could be a source of the problem. Are...
Just a second thought. One thing to check this time of year is the filters in your forced air ducts. New air filters can help to eliminate the dust in the...
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