I need to light my Harrisburg staging yard which is located under a central peninsula. I've used the GE linkable undercounter lighting for most of my lower...
I think it was within the last year or two. Andy Sperendeo had an article showing how to bury the newer Kadee style electro-magnetic magnet using a piece of...
What books do you keep beside you when you are designing a layout? What are your favorites? Always looking for new reading materials...doing a lot of traveling...
The DDRwy will have as yet to be named stations with large and small yards and sidings. I was a little puzzled about how to name Yard Control Panel knobs such ...
Group(s), Years back, a magazine had an article about the CSX's operations in Bone Valley in Florida near Tampa, FL. Can anyone identify what magazine it was,...
I am sorry to inform everyone that my uncle Mike Looney had a major heart attack Thursday night. This is his fifth heart attack since 1997, and it doesn't look...
Folks, I would not lead you astray or waste your time with simple-minded foolishness. This reached me this afternoon from the UK. Look at it, think about it...
The most important thing to do is to not use a common rail for ground. Make sure both rails are gapped and wired separately. That means that each block...
Hi all, I've been lurking on this list for the past year or so, building up some knowledge and trying to decide on a layout for my basement. I have a few...
I'm seriously considering an On30 layout based on the Bellevue & Cascade track plan in the book "48 top Notch Track Plans". I am thinking max train length of...
Hello All, I am modeling in N scale the area from Mojave, CA to Fresno, CA with the Bakersfield to Fresno part on the lower level and the mountainous part on ...
Gents, Regarding sidings: "Sidings or sidetracks are of three distinct classes: (1) those for train service, commonly known as passing sidings or relief...
The Suncoast MRR Club will be holding an Open House and Train Show Saturday, December 12th, and Sunday, December 13th, from 10:00am to 4:00pm both days. We are...
Gents, According to the Hawaiian Railway Society, "Seven public common carrier railroads ran on four of the islands. At one time or another, 47 sugar...
Hello, I have a few questions about interchange design I wanted to throw to the group to see what others thought. Given a mainline railroad, with a passing...
After I build the first waffle section, the next three went really fast. I'm surprised and the light weight and the strength of this design. We'll get the legs...
Good morning, sorry to disturb this list with a rather off-topic issue. When I attended the convention in 2004 I bought one of these little Orcas with the...
To all: I am trying to plan out mainline crossovers between parallel tracks that have a 15 scale foot center to center spacing. This layout is in N-scale ...
I am faced with an interesting dilemma. Because of the necessary benchwork configuration, I need a helper grade (~3%) for the mainline at a location that is...
Hi all, It would be helpful if a few SIG members volunteered to be mailing list moderators. The job is fairly easy; just approve messages from new members and...
Ken, Group: Here's two snapshots of the bridge area I described. B&CRRsnapshots is the album name. Work in progress, photos are useful to find spots I missed...
The Whit Towers shay incident is the Only one I recall from all my years in the hobby, and it usually is the one mentioned when this subject comes up. I think...
Bridges cost money! DUH! So here is my dilemma. I have scratchbuilt a double track stone arch bridge, about 600' scale feet in length. The Pennsylvania &...
Jay please reply off line w/subject = PRR ballast thanks Joe Brann owner/chief engineer Susquehanna Valley Line (HO-scale) Orlando, Florida [Non-text...
How about using one of these as the backstory: 1 - A broad gauge line that was narrowed to standard gauge (back in the 1870s?) 2 - Part of the original...
Ken, can't remember your era. But a common occurrence in the 60's here in the mid-west, was to have one agent cover several stations. Literally driving an...
In designing my proto-freelanced Pennsylvania & Allegheny railroad, I need to keep in mind the number of people I will need to operate the railroad. This is...
One of the guys in our club brought up a great question. When you are building a totally round layout, you lose the grid lines as reference points. How would...
I'm derailing at the turnouts in my stub yard. Built over 1/4" plywood. 7 tracks deep, about 4 feet in length. It didn't happen when I installed them, when I...
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