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Welcome to The Gauge! Pull up a chair, kick back, and enjoy your stay! I'm looking forward to your photos.

Welcome to The Gauge, Robert! Nice to have you. I'll have to warn you though, after you spend some time viewing all the great stuff that is posted here, you'll end up buying a boxcar here, a piece of flex track there, and soon enough you'll be figuring out a way to build something. Welcome!!!

Ah, the great debate, HO or N. Because I like to fiddle with and modify rolling stock, I just can't imagine doing N scale. It is tough enough handling the itty bitty HO scale parts (and finding them after fumble fingers has dropped them on the floor).

Too funny! sign1 But they really are some cute cats!

Too far from the house. I will take the covered hopper and the tank car though.

I don't have an airbrush, so consequently everything on my layout is brush painted. Structures, track, rolling stock, all that. I use the craft paints exclusively, Folk Art, Apple something, and one other brand that I can't remember the name. Walmart, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, whatever they...

Hey, cute kitties!! When they chew up the trestles, do you think "awww, isn't that sweet?" or do you think ":curse: #$*!#&* CATS!"? I'm still hesitant to put oil on the rails, even a tiny drop, but I should do the experiment like others above have suggested.

I operated trains for about two hours last night, developing some switching scenarios for my openhouse in November. I haven't cleaned the track in about a month. When I tried to run single locos, I was getting some stalling and flickering lights. With the MUed locos that are wired together...

Oops, sorry, no pics as of yet. I had to work Saturday, and didn't have the camera at home on sunday, worked all day into the night on Monday, daughter's swim meet last night, but may get home early tonight. I'll see if I can make it happen for ya.:oops: Oh darn, I just noticed that this is...

So the pick-up shoes actually carry some of the weight of the loco? Does this explain why the switcher begin slipping going up the grade? Do you have any Athearn diesels equipped with the shoes? I'm not sure I need them, the MU set-up is working wonderfully, but another tidbit of knowledge...

Okay DocWayne, just what exactly is a Tomar Pick-up Shoe? BigSteel, I need to build two or three "masonite boxcars" myself. Ralph, gooey messes aside, do you think a drop or two would help me in my garage? Or would it attract more dust to the rails?

I'm afraid to put the Wahl oil or anything else on the tracks. In my garage, this seems like an invitation for a dust-collecting, gooey mess.