:hey: The Fourth Annual Ontario Narrow Gauge Show is less than a month away! :hey:

   

Mark Saturday April 18, 2008 on your calendar and plan to attend...

:hey: Please print the flyer. One for yourself and one for a friend, or Local Hobby Shop. Thanks

(I just figured out on my computer how to resize my photos for the web)

Here's a quick and easy listing of my engine collection (minus the two Kato E-8's in Southern colors just out of the camera frame and a Bachmann J-Class 4-8-4 in NW colors). I obviously have a problem with collecting too many engines (and I've got three more on the way...Bachmann UP DD40AX, Kato UP SD70ACe in Rio Grande Heritage colors, and a Kato BNSF SD70MAC "power wedge" scheme). I'm actually thinking of selling a few engines that I just don't run often (or at all). Almost all my engines have really low time - since I've torn down my old layout and am in the process of building another in DCC. But here's the collection...and I hope to take some real pictures of them at a later time and add them to this listing.

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Who knew that model railroading would prove a valid reason to get the wife to agree that we "need" a digital camera with a flash stick? She's tired of me asking her to photgraph stuff with her cellphone and then transmit it to the Sprint site and download it back to us. Can't blame her - only an outfit like Sprint could come up with such a cumbersome and unworkable plan in the first place.

I'm going to survey the house and see what else we "need". 8-)

Within a few months, I expect to begin converting to DCC. I have both HOn3 and HO locomotives. I am assuming I will have to get Z-scale decoders for the HOn3, and shove the decoder into the tender with a myriad of wires connecting to the locomotive. For my HO locomotives, I expect the same - decoders in the tender and the same myriad of wires.

Since I am new to DCC, can someone recoomend good, dependable decoders? My criteria: 1) I want to control speed direction and lighting only, I have 100% zero interest in sound. 2) I will have front and rear headlights only 3) My locomotives are all "old style" with the engine and locomotive each picking up current from opposite rails. I plan to make them so the tender trucks pick up from both rails, but adding extra wipers to the "insulated" side of the drivers could be tricky. I assume that means I will need 5 wires to run from the tender to locomotive - two for the motor, two for the headlight, and one to bring track current from the locomotive drivers back to the decoder. Am I correct here?

I need advice on what brand and model number decoders that will fit my criteria, and any installation tips. Thanks.

Here are the latest items i have for sale on ebay right now in case anyone is interested:

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/bnsfmodeler123

...And he hangs out at Hobby Lobby.

My wife wanted some items from Hobby Lobby for her current project, so I browsed the model railroad section. I never find anything, but it beats trailing along like an over-sized retriever.

I was looking at the tiny collection of N-scale rolling stock - nothing there for me - and spotted a long, rectangular plastic pack in a bottom tray which looked out of place. When I flipped it over, it turned out to be a brand new Bachmann Prairie 2-6-2, with a store sticker of $11.99. hock:

While Bachmann locos may not be the finest available on the market, I can be very forgiving for that price.

Morale: You never can tell.

Hi Guys,

so i have been staring at my Walthers Cornerstone Series FORD Auto Plant structures for the past 2 days. I had 2 Stamping Plants, 2 Assembly Plants, and 1 Distribution Facility. I still need to get one more Distribution Facility. Anyways, i was sick of just looking at them sitting in the boxes in kit form, so i cracked them open, here is what i have come up with so far in the past 3 days. Ive spent most of the last 3 days building these 2 MASSIVE buildings

I combined both my Stamping Plants to make a longer structure. I added in 4 Shipping and Receiving dock doors for rail cars, and 2 shipping dock doors for trucks. The Assembly Plant was a bit of a challenge, and i had to arrange the doors in a way that would work for me. I combined both kits, one kit along builds a HUGE building measuring 23-1/8" long x 11-13/16" wide, i doubled the length and kept the width. On the second part of the building, i made the wall go in to half of the 11-13/16" to allow room for the depression of the sunken truck docks for Shipping and Receiving. This way, i can have a full 53' trailer sitting at a dock, and still have plenty of room to pull a trailer out of a dock next to it, make the turn and travel down the side of the building, without having the truck go off the module lol.

The Distribution Facilities will be located in 2 different parts of the modules. One will be in front of the blank wall on the right side of the Assembly Plant, and the other will be behind the Stamping Plant, both will load Auto Rack Train Cars and trucks.

on the very right side of the module, where the "office" part of the Assembly Plant is, there will be a small parking lot. Here are some pics of the start showing the placement of the 2 buildings. THIS IS BY FAR THE LARGEST BUILDING I HAVE EVER BUILT lol




Showing the overall of the module. its 7' long x 2' wide




Overall view of the Stamping Plant








Close-up of the Shipping and Receiving Docks on the Assembly Plant for trucks. The docks are at ground level, and i will have to carve a depression for trailers to be at the right height for the docks




Assembly Plant has Rail Access too




Wayne Assembly Plant




Random FORD Sign lol




The side of the "office part" of the Assembly Plant




And here is what the front of the "office" looks like, i couldnt get the camera over there for a shot cuz it was on a tri-pod lol


Whatcha Guys Think? There are some areas on the Assembly Plant that need some touch up painting too....

More pics and progress to come soon

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Big Blue "Pennsy Power", Pennsylvania railroad locomotives
post 1, A Class, Switchers. A5 - Hobbyline, A5 - John English, A5 John English box.
post 2, B & C class, Tankers, A5 Mantua, B8Bachmann
post 3, B Class, B6sa Gilbert 155, B36 P2000, B6sa HO train Co. brass.
post 4, C Class, Marx kit bash C ?
post 5, D Class, D16sa Gem Brass, D1 Mantua
post 6, E Class, E8 Penn Line, E4 Mantua
post 7, F Class, F3sa Gem Brass, F1 Mantua
post 8, G Class, G5sa Liliput, G5sa Westside brass, G5sa Bowser.
post 9, H Class, H3 Model Power,H8 Penn Line, H10 Gem brass
post 13, By E-Paw, K4, K4 ,C liner
post 14, By Charlie B, M1 Broadway limited.
post 15, By tomustang, B36 USRA Bachmann
post 21, By tomustang, PRR Lima A class
post 22, By tomustang, PRR L2sa, USRA 2-8-2 6 photos of this loco.
post 24, By Charlie B, Baldwin BF16 A & B Sharknose (RF16A & B)
post 27, By herc driver, C Liner
post 28, By herc driver, Kato GG1 in N scale.
post 29, By Charlie B, T1 Broadway limited
post 31, By Charlie B, I1sa Broadway limited
post 32, I Class, I1sa Penn Line, I1sa Westside brass, I1sa Cary-Penn line
post 37, By Selector, J1sa Broadway Limited
post 39, By Charlie B, E7A
post 40, Class J, J1sa HO Train Co brass, J1sa HO Train Co. brass, L1sa Broadway Limited.
post 42, Class K, K2s lionel, K3s Cary Mantua.
post 43, K Class, K4sa Penn line, K4sa United brass.
post 44, By spurlines grandson, PRR L2s USRA
post 45, By Green_Elite_Cab, GE 44 tonner, Silverliner 11s, PC E44
post 47, L class, L1sa Penn Line, L2sa USRA Athearn, L2sa USRA front end Athearn.
post 49, A Penn Line K4 on a turntable.
post 50, A Penn Line L1sa in my Frankford yard.
post 51, A Penn Line GG1
post 52, By Charlie B, PRR PA1, FA1.
post 58, By Selector, PRR T1 Broadway Limited.
post 59, M Class, M1a Bowser, M1a Broadway Limited, M1b Broadway Limited.
post 60, M Class M1 Gem brass.
post 61, By Charlie B, PRR L2 USRA Blue line.
post 63, N Class, N1sa Cary Penn Line stock, N1sa Cary Penn Line custom, N1sa Westside brass.
post 64, Q Class, Q2s Imperial models.
post 68, S Class, S2 Custom Brass on NJ.
post 71, T Class, T1 Broadway Limited
post 72, CC Class, CC1 Rivarossi.



A Place to show your Altoona rail busters. A place for the Short and the Tall. The Big and the Small.
I'll start with Pennsys "A" class. the 0-4-0's. Well I never got one of those new Bowser A5sa. But I have both the HObbyline and John English A5sa's.
The Plastic HObbyline A5 is first. You can see I am missing a firemans side main rod and piston. Oh don't worry about the tilted headlight, it is that way for going around corners. This loco was made in a nopowered kit form as well as a powered kit and ready to run in a set.

   

The John Enghish Yard bird die cast A5sa. all metal.

   

The John Enghish Yard bird Kit Boxed

   

There were two pretty much certain attendees for the Owosso events this summer. There were a few more long shot options. None seemed like more of a long shot than the 4449... :jawdrop:

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So we now have PM 1225, NKP 765, LR 110, the new 4-4-0, three 0-4-0ts, and the SP 4449!

This will be the greatest weekend of my life to date!!!