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Hi, All. As a retired engineer for NS/CR, IMO, prototypical signals are sufficiently complicated that few modellers would attempt to reproduce more than the look of a working system. Your set-up situation in ABS territory should result in a RESTRICTED (RED/YELLOW) or STOP & PROCEED (RED/RED)...

wall1Senior Moment..should have got this yesterday... Bar Mills Models has an Sn2 display layout...Bar Mills on the Road , have a look,and enjoy. Bob C.:thumb:

Only15, Hi, and welcome! My head is a little off on this one...Sn 2 is 3/16":1' scale, or 1/64 actual size - the 2(foot gauge) is close to N scale track gauge, yes??? :oops: We might be talking N scale mechanisms with S scale superstructures, for convenience sake. There are very few prototype 2'...

Hi, All. Just got a notice from a friend - the Ft Madison, Farmington & Western RR and Minerville Museum in Donnelson, Iowa, is going to sale at auction due to owner's health. Locomotives, rolling stock and other equipment, etc. are available. Here's the link to the site...

No Great young MRRs ? Just my $.02 through now-clouded memory; who were the Great Young Model Rails of 40 or 50 years ago, when I got seduced into scale models by a 40+ year old uncle? Most of the modellers in MR and RMC were 30- or 40-somethings with good monetary circumstance or connections to...

Hey, Deano ! That's the FIRST doghouse I've seen on a Vandy tender ! The PRR and N&W had lots of 'em , and with STEAM & electricity both available nearby, would expect heat, though I have no FIRST-HAND knowledge. Believe PRR got some Y-3s also, and likewise used them in drag/ helper service...

Bernhard, Thank you so much for the show photos !! The US Modular is stunning - excellent modeling (and modelers, though some of them could use a little more weathering !), and most impressive German RRs, loved the station with the Newly-weds on the platform (is that narrow gauge ?), and the...

Russ and All, have been having major slowdowns and lockups since November - but ONLY on Zealot wall1 ...and I visit other forums which use V.bulletin (eg. Trainboard), without these problems. Never had issues prior to Nov. with same computer/OS/Browser on Zealot. Reported to Admin via Google...

:thumb: WAY TO GO, MIKEY !!! If we were PAYIN' YA by the POST (we aren't, are we ?) You'd have more trains than you have space for !!! Ooops...you got that many anyhow ??? EXCELLENT !!!!! All the Best. Bob C.

Wayne ! WAY to GO !!!! Thanks for the time, aid, encouragement, inspiration, and humor 4000 times over, and hoping to blessed with your presence and posts for many years (and Thousands) to come. Bob C.

Eighty-Eight - Nice to find such a reminder of history...any thoughts on the brick/siding/hip roof structure to the right in the North view ? Just looked like neat window framing on the first floor - could be old, can't see it that well - looks like a home now - could it be a re-purposed ex-RR...

jbaakko, you think like Steven Wright ! Never heard of "SeeD"s, but we called them SD80-MAC (mack),though M-A-C was understood even by NS management. On another term, "Tracks Ahead" host,Spencer Christian ALWAYS refers to Kayto (KAH-toe), if that confers authority. I always thought it was...

Thanks for the reminder - worked 33 years for the successors - and forgot ! (My wife would NOT be surprised !) Bob C.

:wave:Welcome to "The Gauge", csiguy. More gons downriver at Natrona and West Tarentum - not nearly as many as a few years ago, and most pretty thoroughly "weathered". The Boss of the KJRR is on here somewhere and will probably say "Hi" when he sees your location. Enjoy and learn from this...

Hi, All. Maybe wrong but I' sensing a mis-conception. The coal "Gons" we're talking about Look like and have the structure and capacity of "Hoppers", but don't have the slope sheets and bottom dump doors that gave the cars the name - correct, Larry? They may also be used for other commodities...

Rob, Hi. According to the local club The Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum ,during the Christmas Open House (Fri,Sat,Sun, mid Nov. to mid Jan), wear on the steam is a major consideration, so Friday is Steam Nite, Diseasels Sat.& Sun. Tracking reliability is probably #2, as its a large...

88, EXCELLENT !!! Got to see the last couple of issues when I joined, and was impressed with the idea of a forum mag, the effort and professional manner in which "The GAUGE" magazine was presented. Thanks for the work of everyone involved in the renewal of a fine tradition. Hope I can get enough...

My "NEW "N" '08 is that GHQ (or someone) would produce boiler/cab exchange for more mechanisms (4-6-0, 2-8-0,2-10-2,etc.) for PRR (and/or other road specific steam), so I can switch scales without nano-assemblers to build my engines ! Seems like there might be a market, maybe! HAPPY NEW...

HI,Val ! Thanks for the non-opaque info. Is this why the "ALPS" printers are so capable?(IF you can find one, and materials). Would special "Photo" inks,as used in some photo printers,be any beter for a like situation, as they're meant to adhere to "glossy" media?Thanks. Bob C.

Doc, Thanks !!! Feel like I'm about 1" tall,and just got through spending an exciting afternoon railfanning from Lobanks to the Canadian "High Desert" and back ! Hope I can find an air-conditioned Diner, and a room for the night so I can do it again tomorrow. Great trip, wonderful photos, and a...