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Info on OLD LINE GRAPHICS: A rumor has persisted that this manufacturer of NEAT MRR Oper. printed Carcards, Waybills and other related items had sold out his business. NOT TRUE! Having sent Don an e-mail message to check on this, he replied that he was still in full operation. Contact info...

Check out Model Railroad Operations on: www.railroadforum.com There is a LOT printed there!

If you many modelers out there have ideas on or actually have unique/ unusual industries on their layouts, it would be GREAT to have a list of them here! A couple of my contributions are: 1. Fire apparatus rebuilder/ restorer, having a spur with end ramp, onto which fire trucks are unloaded/...

What type of layout design would work best to achieve good , satisfying Operation during an O/S, by mimicing the 1:1 more closely? I have only ONE preference and would use it in a HEARTBEAT, IF I owned a home with a useable, dry, clean basement, garage or spare room [ own SMALL, old farmhouse...

HI FOLKS: HI BRAKIE! I missed you last p.m. on chat here as I tuned in too late. Will try again soon for sure! SANTAFEWILLIE: Regarding you question on location of loads/ loco/ MT cars in a turn: BRAKIE will be able to tell you a LOT on 1:1 switching! In book, titled 'The Blueberry...

HI FRED: You've got it pretty much right except that there are a pair of units [reverser/door] and they will be joined by an angled center section. This will set unit center lines at about a 30 degree angle to each other. We may even make a LONG center section[longer main r-o-w, more...

HI AGAIN: I can see that you are still thinking 'modular'! I apologize for not including this in my last post! We have constructed a pair of REVERSER [layout end] SECTIONS, which are: 48" diameter circle of 6mm luan plywood, mounted on a steel wall stud which has been notched and bent [all 45...

HI AGAIN FOLKS! DASH10: We opted a long time ago to use the hollow core door for several reasons. 1. They are light [we intend to eventually go to train shows again with our UNIQUE layout!]. And we also use 2" extruded foam on doors, also light and this gives us about 14 1/2 feet of HO space...

HI CID! FUNNY you should mention maple syrup! In the Dec. '03 RMC, there's a SUPER article on a VT short line RR, which we read and re-read. It had a ton of GREAT modeling ideas for us and fit right into our locale and era, with a list of the products line handled. There is a VT Maple Syrup...

HI TWILIGHT: If you have a good hobby dealer nearby who sells Peco, they should be able to obtain a Peco catalog for you in your scale and it lists all the stuff available for whatever you need regarding track and turnouts. They even offer curved turnouts, which are a bit rare in assembled...

Go to www.ttxdcc.com. This is website of Tony's Train Exchange, a really knowledgable dealer in all things DCC. On website, look up the in-depth testing which was done by a third party. I believe 3 brands of reverser modules were tested. ALL of them produce some sparking when the first wheelset...

Old coot, papasmurf from NH here. Was in local, now-defunct HO modular club for about 6 years. One ex-member and yours truly are building[very slowly, due to family commitments, illness, the weather and lack of funds] a portable sectional [as opposed to modular] HO layout, using combo of steel...

The guy under car sounds COOL! Don't forget that YOU could also have a parked towtruck and have a Model A Ford or something similar behind it on the hook.

HI CHRIS: Although it's not built as yet, our NewEnglandNorthern HO sectional layout will hopefully have a section of village road running behind and parallel to the foreground east-west main. We hope to have Big Al's Garage; an old IHC gas station with a concrete block garage added. It will be...

Old RR mag article I read, showed a layout almost identical to yours. It used a concrete tunnel portal at r.h. end and a girder-type auto bridge at l.h. end. Exit treatments looked pretty effective in the article pics.

Please use my NEW profile [NO GAP in user name]. My old profile with user name gap to be deleted shortly. My old ISP was dropped and now am on a DSL. E-mails to old address will go to dead account. :)

Pal Gary and yours truly are constructing an HO 'what-if' freelance sectional RR layout called the NEN[NewEnglandNorthern], running thru upper ME, NH, VT, NY state with connection to Canada, in the mid-50s to mid-60s transition era. If any modelers out there are modeling similar locale and era...