Over in Bob's thread about his bashed mikado, someone asked about the layout it was photographed on.

Here's some pics I've taken of the Paris Junction layout - in the Paris Junction Hobbies store.

Here's the layout as it sits in the store (the clutter and debris varies from day-to-day ):



And here's the house loco, Paris Junction #101, a Bachmann GE 70 Tonner, custom-lettered by Bob:



Here's 101 with my (original) Athearn pickle car. I was offered some good money for that car before Roundhouse re-issued it. At least they haven't done the Heinz one (yet!)



Here's (one of) Bob's pride-and-joys, a Proto 2000 0-8-0 at the station (a DPM kit):



Here's 101 in front of one of the nicest structures on the layout, a kitbashed foundry from Railway Design Associates:



Here's 8410 working the yard:



And one I shot just to demonstrate to someone the differences between "scale" and "gauge":

Several pepole have asked me to keep the pics updated on this build. Rather than do so in my engine roster thread, I will do so here.

Well I cleaned off my work station (TV Table :) and I am ready to start my next project. Time to start my favorites...Tunnel Motors ;D

One is an RTR (only one I have) SD45T-2. This one won't get many modes done to it, but will get the standard details added.

The second one is a BB SD40T-2 that I plan to through everything at. I am going to open the grills, replace the nose, subbase, cab, filter box, blower, filter screens, turbo, and fans with cannon parts amongst other parts.

As you can see by the stack of parts on the back of the tray I am already helping Paul with his sales this year, and I don't even have half of the parts yet.



This is the scheme for the SD40T-2



And here is for the SD45T-2

Hi All,

I am looking at my ballast tubs here and have mainly medium sizes of WS stuff grey/brown/buff i bought these for N scale but want to know what sizes of ballast you use for HO ....... as i have tried a section beside the repair shop and it looks a bit small between the ties, also what colour of ballast would fit in with the switcher layout as it is really a busy yard.

Hi guys,
I have a bunch of locomotives from my son that have suffered some abuse from my grand-kids so Grandpa gets to fix them.
One of the locomotives is a Bachmann GS4 that has the parts from the front of the tender missing that attach to the drawbar.
I'm hoping one of you may have one and can post a picture so I can make one. A scan of the parts list would be nice too, but it runs great and the locomotive is damage free so I don't anticipate needing anything for the locomotive.
Thanks, Charlie

Left over from my days of modeling British outline back in the 80’s. All of the locomotives run but, keep in mind they are Grafar chassis, or in one case Lima. First photo shows:

#1. LMS 0-4-0 (Class 4F?) by Lima. This loco was purchased at Paul’s Train Shop/AMRO in New Oxford PA about 25 years ago. Amazingly, in spite of Lima’s notorious “pancake” motor, it runs quite well and quietly.

#2. LMS 0-4-0, D&M white metal on Grafar 0-6-0 chassis. Runs OK, noisy like all older Grafar, hesitates once in a while over switches but, could probably benefit from having the wheel contacts cleaned.

#3. LNER Class J33??, D&M white metal on Grafar 0-6-0 chassis. Same comments as for #2

#4. GWR Pannier tank by Grafar. Same comments as above.

Assorted wagons and a few extra tenders.

$50 plus $7 postage (domestic) for the lot.



Assorted British vehicles: $8 plus $5.50 (domestic postage) for the lot.



Take both lots for $60 post paid (domestic). Postal money order or PayPal please. If interested, please PM me.

Found this old Revell shell at a yard sale, paid .50 for it ,so I'm thinking of incorperating it with the IHC kit Grusome Casket Co. and turning it into a fab shop.So here are a couple of shots after a bath to remove dirt,grime and decals.

Mike

Attached Files

Thumbnail(s)
       

Well this happened a while ago now, but the Big Day did arrive,

I had to be on my best behavior as 200 fingers came to see and test the PistonBroke Line.

Grades K (kindy) to 4 of The local Primary school came to visit. And the Chief Engineer was working up a real sweat making sure that all 4 trains kept running and blowing their horns for 30 minutes without running of the rails..........

That's me "not running of the rails" .....as well as the Locos.

Here are some of the Captured Audience

I got this idea today while reading "Steam Railway," a British news magazine containing news stories re the preserved steam railways in the UK. In the UK, of course, there are dozens of preserved railways operating so it's easy to fill its pages (for example, I just read about another new-build -- they're working on building a brand new 2-6-2 tank engine at the Severn Valley Railway! ). There are actually a few heritage railway magazines like Steam Railway.

I was thinking that I'd be interested in reading about similar events happening in Canada, although I realize that we'd have about 1/10 of the news. For example, our Canadian preserved heritage railway magazine could contain news article about the steam and diesel engines at the South Simcoe Railway in Tottenham, news at the Halton County Radial Railway (streetcar museum) or the recent batch of news of Toronto's John Street Roundhouse being turned into a railway heritage centre. Late one night, I quickly posted a batch of recent heritage railway news on this forum (<!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1034">viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1034</a><!-- l -->), so it would be neat to stay up-to-date on what's happening locally.

There are also good steam/diesel railways in Manitoba, Alberta, B.C. and Quebec (the last I heard, the latter [Quebec] steam railway was closed and engine being offered for sale). There are also cool Canadian railway museums across the country and several in Ontario.

I'm a designer of a Christian magazine, so I have an idea of what the magazine industry is like (VERY hard to start a new one!!), so I'm totally saying this tongue-in-cheek.

I realize that the Canadian Railway Modeller magazine and the U.S. TRAINS covers some Canadian heritage railway news but I'm thinking that there may be enough news to fill (say) a quarterly magazine. I also realize that there are a couple CNR and CPR heritage magazines out there that fill this void. I just thought it would be a cool idea to have a general, all-Canadian heritage railway news magazine. It could cover actual operating railways as well as museums ... and possibly some current mainline news?

Any thoughts/feedback or suggestions? I think I have a half-baked idea here just not sure what to do with it!

Rob

So my pal Bob and I hit a few of the layouts on the DoubleHeaders layout tour. It's a group of modellers from the Kitchener-Cambridge-Guelph area that open their homes to the public every year. This year there were 29 homes on the tour this year, several with more than one layout. As well, there were several layouts in the registration hall, including Tim Warris's Bronx Terminal layout.

Here's a few pics of some of the layouts we saw...

There's a rumour that the Aberfoyle Junction club will have to pick up and move, since they want to build another subdivision where it currently stands. I thought I'd grab a few pics to remember it by:






Brian Hume has a very nice On3 layout coming along, with some very nice sound-equipped motive power:



I think one of my favourites is Graham MacDonald's Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound layout. The structures in Depot Harbour are amazing:









Thanks to everyone who opened their layouts to us and made the tour such a success. If you're within driving distance, I strongly recommend this tour. I also recommend having lunch and a pint at E.J.'s in Baden!