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Not quite true. UP uses RCL on the Roseville hump. RCL belt packs make it tougher for the operator to do the things you listed. Also it leaves the back up moves unprotected if the operator is down where the coupling and switching is. With an engineer he can watch who and what is around or in...

They put names of cities on their car doors. I found one for my old home town of Modesto CA. Kind of makes looking at their cars interesting, looking for certain cities. Greg

If you haven't made up your mind on which scale, consider S scale. S scale has both high rail and scale options open to you. It also is a little over a third bigger than HO and not as big as O scale or gauge. Again what do you want to model? If you are after modern big equipment HO is the...

IIRC my old Athearn SD9 did ok on the 18" curves. Looked funky but worked fine. As stated on an earlier post, wouldn't couple up but went through coupled ok. Greg

Yes a dark day indeed. They all were friends, the ones who survived as well as those who died. WP employees were loyal to the company and would do almost anything to help get the trains over the road, even if it had dire consequences. There were many small things that lead to that tragedy and...

In the 70's UP instituted Pool cabooses, which traveled the system. You could tell a pool caboose because they had a big red P on the cupola. During the late 70's pool power and cabooses became fairly common on the WP. I have pictures of BN, D&H, NW, C&EI, UP, D&RGW and a Southern caboose all...

You haven't lived till the wife calls the crew center to find out when her husband may get home and they tell her the crew died. After some hysterics they managed to explain the hours of service and that the crew was waiting for a ride home. A fellow conductor's wife told that story on...

I model in O and S scale. I'm not picky about operatioin though, I'll operate any scale. :D By the way, I operate the 12" to the 1' for a living. :D :D Greg

If you want to join a yahoo group, this one might be of interest. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/30inchrailroads/ I just came across it myself and will join to see if anything strikes my fancy. Greg Elems

I see Carl Arendt's web page has been mentioned. Nothing was said about time frame or where in the world you would like to place this layout. I was looking at some pictures of the White Pass and Yukon narrow gauge railroad and it has a wharf, along with some rugged mountain scenery. While...

In a similar vein, I’m thinking about an S scale Free-mo modular layout. I’m finding I’m a lone wolf up here in Reno as far as scale track goes. There are some American Flyer operators here, who might be persuaded to come over to the dark side once they see what can be done. I’m leaning...

Harold, Great tutorial on the flat car deck. Good knowledge for any scale. I really enjoyed your web page. Cheers, Greg Elems

Michael, welcome to the-gauge. You are correct, On3 is O scale with 3' gauge track and On30 is O scale with 30" gauge track. On30 was an easy way to get into narrow gauge modeling since HO trucks & power mechanisms were easy to convert and cheap. Bachmann came on the On30 scene around 1998...

I guess it is your perspective. Having seen F units in action, Alco S-2's kicking cars in the yard and on locals. GP7's in multiples of 4 or 5 screaming across the country side. GP40's pulling long trains of auto racks and auto parts high cube box cars all trailed by cabooses. Today's...

SP was installing single lens search light signals around WWII. Other railroads, such as Santa Fe and Western Pacific fallowed suite around the same time. Main lines using search light signals in California included the Central Valley and Coast route south. North depended on which line and...

You are probably right Harold, and Bachmann may have made it with the spacing for 36”. But it came from Baldwin's factory as 30" gauge engine. Many of Baldwin's designs were flexible for their narrow gauge market. And I do agree with you, Bachmann did a fine job on their model...

Harold, Believe it or not, that out side framed 2-8-0 is modeled after a genuine 30" gauge steamer. The prototype is still running in Montana and came out of Mexico when it was retired. Greg Elems PS Welcome back to On30 :D

Well the SP unit is a tunnel motor that EMD and SP collaborated on the design. SP had problems with their engines shutting down in the tunnels and snow sheds so the radiator and air intake were redesigned to draw the cooler air from lower down in the tunnel compared to the hot air and gasses at...

Cool shots, like vintage chilled wine. :D Another place to see FP's is the Grand Canyon Railway. In fact it's even better because they get to run faster than 10 mph. Greg

That is indeed a safety award placque. UP 9404 is a DC unit and not set up for DPU service as a control unit. DPU control units are AC with additional computer programs to run the units via radio signals. They are used in helper service as unmanned units. DC units can be used with DPU units...