How about a contest to come up with a fictitious Railroad and or place name? Max entry is 5 names per person. Prize none just an exercise in imagineering 8-)

I hope someone can help me with this- when I take pictures then look great in the camera viewer but when I upload them to my computer and to Photobucket they are grainy and not very sharp.I am using a normal setting on the camera.This has been an ongoing problem. I even contacted the manufacture who had me try a few things but nothing really changed. Does anyone have a clue as to why this might be happening? Thanks for any help-Bob

Here are some of the current pictures from my 2'x8' switching layout. These show the proposed location of the roads.
You will notice in the first few shots that I chose not to have the road cross the tracks.Rather in the front the road will end up in an that trucks can use to turn around in so the can back into the two industries on the front left side.




The last couple of shots show the road running from the left side all the way down to the coal tower at the far end.It also cuts off between two of the buildings and here it crosses the tracks to access the freight handling area.



I am planning on making the roads out of styrene. At this point I'm not sure if the roads will be asphalt or concrete,and the same goes for the parking areas and freight handling area.
Anyway-Enjoy-B0b

I have been a member at the old place since 2005, but never seemed to have an occasion to post there...until two nights ago. Now I am here and must say it has tons of promise to show.

I look forward to "meeting" all of you as time goes on.

-Crandell

The last two PMs I "sent", as in wrote the message and clicked on "submit", went to the outbox. Q. I have looked, how do you get the message from the "outbox" to the receipient ??? Neither of them showed up in "sent mail". :?: :?: :?:

This is an Athearn GP38-2 I picked up recently. The shell is rtr quality and the chassis is the old blue box spline shaft drive with brass worms and has that characteristic Athearn growl that I like to hear.



It'll be lashed up tail to tail with this old warhorse I just rebuilt:

Any of you use printed paper back drops? I printed up some building pictures for my backdrop, and am wondering what to use to fasten them to the backdrop to keep them flat without the ink running. Right now I used clear tape to see how they look, but it looks hoaky.

Loren

I have a cordless keyboard and mouse by Microsoft, the store was sold out of Logitech keyboards and mice when I bought it. My keyboard frequently drops letters as I type, and if I hit the post button before I proof read, errors show up. On the old board I did a lot of editing my posts because I did most of my proof reading after I had posted. I don't see an edit button on this new forum.

I will have to do some shuffling of pics around, but construction began yesterday. Granted, I only did the first few steps, as I had alot of filing to do on the frame. There was an amazing amount of mold flash on it, and the rear drawbar assembly as well. That aside, the drivers are all installed, as well as the drawbar assembly for the tender. I am going to have to do some more filing though, as the geared driver is binding a bit . Today I start on the valve gear. I have to make a stop at the LHS and Home Depot. I need some better lube, and a few small round files.
Once again, my wife has taken our camera to work, so I will add pics when I have them to add, and I figure out where to host them.

Matt

Is it possible to have external links open a new window/tab by default, rather than navigating away from "Big Blue"?

Thanks,

Andrew