I made this simple cradle from two scrap lengths of 2x4, a small piece of plywood, and a strip of denim that I cut from an old pair of jeans. I use it to cradle my locomotives while I do running gear work or clean the wheels.

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I recently realized that no matter how careful I was while ballasting my track I ended up with a buildup on the inside webs of the track in some areas. Although in most cases this cannot be seen it tends to produce an unwanted noise as the wheels passover the buildup. Is there a safe way of removing this buildup without causing and damage to the rails?
Thanks for any help. Bob

I saw this link over on the MR site and thought that steel mill modellers here might enjoy it, too. Also, check out some of the other videos, including "Dumping slag at Bethlehem Steel...".

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Wayne

Last time I went to visit my kids/grandkids in Mexico, I took a little jaunt to the old downtown area of the city, and, to my surprise....the old passenger station is being refurbished with the intent of turning into a RR museum. Here are a few pics I took of the station as it stands now. The station is a late 40's design, and from its size, RR travel, as in most places, was at its peak, so it's a very sizable building. Back in the days when rail travel was essentially the only alternative for any kind of long distance travel I took several trips out of this station.

A viem looking west....


East...


A closer look at the clock tower....


The ticket counter...


The train schedule board...


The waiting platform...Most of this area was once filled with tracks...Now it's turned into a parking lot...


You can see the clock tower a ways back....

And finally, a couple of goodies that were parked in one of the tracks...presumably to be restored and housed at the museum-to-be...


Can anyone tell me what type of loco this is..?

Hope you enjoy this little vignette of RR happenings south of the border...

Hi All,

After doing some work on Morganth tonight i hit a snag just after the bridge i want to add feeder wires to the track the foam is 4 inches deep there and i need to drill through it to pass the wire down through the board to the bus wire ........ apart from buying an extra long drill bit for four holes what else could i use to do the job ?

After re-reading the replies to the initial post this is what I came up with -a platform for unloading lumber flats.I just realized that the lumber could be put against the building rather than in front of the platform where it is more likely to fall.


I'm also including the bulkhead flatcar that I have been working on. I deceided rather than put a load on it I made it look like a load was just taken off of it.


Enjoy-Bob

Hi Guys,

After reading one of my PC mags i found this useful site to turn your photos, videos, & music into online slideshows

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Doctor Wayne recently posted about Adding a cool industry... i.e. ice making and related consumer industries.

Here is an "old school" ice house I got some time ago. This style was often literally "the tip of the iceberg", as they were simply the cover for a largish hole in the ground, which aided in keeping everything cool. Places like this were found near lakes or rivers, from where blocks of ice up to 24"x24"x24" would be sawn in the late winter. They might serve the local community, or be dedicated to one particular use, such as a hotel. The Highland Inn in Algonquin Park would consume something on the order of 1400 blocks of ice during the summers before mechanical refrigeration.

   

Judging by the add-on at the back of the building, power and mechanical cooling may have been added at some point...

   

This ice house was part of a set of cast metal structures. The outhouse and abandoned cabin below comprise the rest of the set.

   

Andrew

An item from the BBC about another success for preservation groups...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8030465.stm...Enjoy...Bob C.

I've been frettin' for some time now that the old Gauge may some day disappear from lack of traffic, and have looked for ways to rescue some of my favorite threads there. I started by copying and pasting the text to a Word document, leaving a few empty lines where the pictures were inserted, and keeping track of which pictures went there....As you can imagine, this was quite time consuming and didn't get through even one of the threads....Last night my son who came up to visit (he's a digital controls engineer and kind of a PC nerd) showed me how in a few minutes' time I could copy the entire thread, page by page, pictures and all..!!

Here's how it's done....

Go to Z, open the thread you want to rescue. On the tool bar, click "File" and then "Save as", and direct it to save in whatever folder you want (I created a main folder in "My Documents" called OLD GAUGE, and a subfolder for each thread, and saved it there.) Don't rename the page when you save it, just use the default name the system uses since it's already got the thread name and a page number. Go to the next page on the thread and do the same...and so on....I copied about 10 threads in a little over half an hour.....

The only down side to this, is that links that were made to the old Gauge do not work if the links were not "updated" after the transfer to the new servers/forum...But something is better than nothing....

So stop "frettin' " and rescue your favorite threads....