I'm in need of 6 or 7 switches just to finish my mainline on my layout... but I've run into a slight snag associated with that...

last time I bought turnouts Peco's were $21 Canadian each, unpowered Atlas ones were $15 Canadian... today that has gone up to $27 for Peco and $24 for Atlas. Thats pretty absurd considering the last time I bought turnouts was only 3 months ago!

Atlas switches...well I've found that most of my rolling stock and motive power like to pick the frogs and give me that SVDA light on my MRC handheld signaling a short circuit...

So Peco it is... but, there has to be a cheaper place to find these... any help?

For all interested in preservation/refurbishment of historic rail facilities, (particularly PRR followers in Pennsylvania)the restoration of the PRR/PC/CR/AMTRAK station is about to begin. Story and photo at : http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/239304, and more photos at Google Images : http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=...2&aq=f&oq=. It's still an active station - Amtrak's twenty-second busiest. Enjoy. Bob C.

Hi guys been on the missing lis for real long time hope you like this for my reason of not being here NEW Z GAUGE LAYOUT

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For those of you that haven't yet seen it, the show, "Boneyard" will be airing the episode about recycling old railroad equipment. It will air tomorrow morning, June 28th on the HIST1 channel. Check your local listing, but it's on at 9 AM here in Arizona, so I'm assuming that it will be around noon on the east coast.

It's interesting. They show you how they recycle old rails and ties and even a locomotive and old car boneyard. They even go into how they restore old passenger cars.

I went down to the LHS the other day to see if the remaining parts for my kitbash project were in - and they weren't. ALl was not lost, though - I picked up this kit of houses from Grandt line. I have been eyeballing this kit for years as these should be perfect little houses for a mining town. There are a few options when building these houses, but I will only use the pieces that are in the kit, and will not do any cutting or splicing of the walls. So, I guess that means I am in for the kitbuild challenge.

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It seems that summer has started already. Time to unveil the plans for the scratchbuild challenge. As my layout is still without track, but with a fairly clear idea of the trackplan, any trackside structure would be of use, and a generic goods shed can be placed anywhere, so that's the direction I'll head to. Inspired by the 'NW 58th St., Miami' approach of a long, no-frills structure, I found the following structure: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Schuppen_50_in_Hamburg-Kleiner_Grasbrook.jpg&filetimestamp=20061008105306">http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... 1008105306</a><!-- m --> . It could probably be a bit older looking, as I want a branch-line look on my layout instead of a big-city industrial complex look, so I will probably mix in some older style architectural features like on this one: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1649787">http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1649787</a><!-- m --> or <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.weimar-rastenberger-kleinbahn.de/Lokbilder/efnord.jpg">http://www.weimar-rastenberger-kleinbah ... efnord.jpg</a><!-- m --> . I'll try to draw some blueprints which combine features of these three to give an idea of what is going to be built.

Ok with the upturn in pictures of the NS, I am creating this thread for all those NS pictures. If you have any please post them.

I will start, here is a set of SD60I's coming up through Lilly, Pa.

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I've hit a bit of a snag on a project. I building an On3 2-8-0 with BLI's On30 C-16 drivers. Since the crankpins were out of scale...so far that I couldn't use them with scale 1880s style rods...so I filed them off. This hasn't caused any problems with 3 of the 4 axles, but the screws really aren't long enough for the main driver. Does anyone have a good source?

I'd try Bowser, but I don't want to shell out $12 ($10 min for shipping) for $2 worth of parts...if I can avoid it.

Since I know it isn't cool to mention such a project without a photo...


Btw, that is an old photo. I've done a fair bit of trouble shooting since then and the cross head guide is attached to the main rod.

Hi, folks. Just got a heads-up from Google about a new source of Railroad images and info:http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cd...=/knx_rail, from the Seymore Library at Knox College in Illinois (Galesburg ?). They are creating a digitized library of photos, documents, etc. - looks like a labor of love and a fine potential resource for those interested in mid-western rail history. Are you kidding - NO Institute of Higher Learning would affiliate with me - just wanted you to know ! Bob C.