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Well building flats would be a starting point. The track plan looks neat but would be too narrow for full buildings IMHO. Take a look at what http://www.btsrr.com has to offer for building kits. You could use the buildings for fronts and the sides in other locations and get 2 or 3 flats from...

It looks like a workable plan and the turntables don't bother me per say. The Sierra Railroad had a good sized roundhouse in Jamestown CA. The Yosemite Valley RR had a turntable and roundhouse in Merced and a turntable at El Portal. So just because the turntable's are on each end doesn't make...

Tanks A Lot! :D Greg

A friend of mine has an operating night on his layout. He told me it takes two days of prep off and on to get it set up. He uses the thumbtack method for car movement on the layout. To him it's easier than car cards. Anyway we usually work as one man crews, enough areas to switch along with...

The January 1997 issue of RMC has a nice article on scratch building a SR&RL flat car in On2. Checking out the size of the car, at 6'6" wide and 33' long, it seems like it would fit in nicely with the Bachmann freight cars. It also seems to be fairly straight forward in building it too...

Taint boring doctorwayne. Those FP-4's look great. Keep up the good work and just see how board we get looking at it. :D Greg

Nice going on the eBay purchase. A nice selection of steamers. That Mikado looks like a Reading steamer with that fat fire box. Enjoy, Greg

Freelancer, it looks good to me. I have yet to make a complete turnout myself and your first try it much better than mine. I have a friend who can make turnouts that will knock your socks off. He can build in place or on the work bench. While your time maybe worth more than a commercial...

Very cool article. Your On30 layout translates into OO very nice. Great web page. Greg

Russ, No personal experiance with them yet. I'm ordering a couple pairs of them to see how they work on my engines and a couple of box cars. May get them in the next week or so. I'll keep you posted. Greg

Well I'd say the clear tape was successful. I didn't even notice it till you talked about it. hudsonelectric, have you looked into the new Sergent HO coupler? No trip pin like Kadee and a small magnet on the end of a stick is used to open the couplers. http://user.icx.net/~sergent/...

Are you talking about rail height with or without the ties? If you are only talking about the rail, you could pinch one end of a the rail joiner about half the length and solder the pinched portion to the bottom of the 2.1 or 2.5 rail and slide the 2.8 in normal fashion. If that isn't clear...

The Western Pacific had a wooden round house in Oroville California. It housed diesels until burned down in the early 70's IIRC. Also an old time round house still exists in Jamestown California on the Sierra Railroad. That might be more in line with what you are looking for. Greg Elems

Without digging through my pile of magazines and books :D the overall dimensions of the SD and SD-2 was a frame length increase with the new -2 designation. The T-2 units utilized the same frame and as you guessed, the porches were eliminated with the addition of the tunnel radiator design...

The link would be nice, thank you. Are you making a double ended diesel or an electric? Australia had a neat double ended unit, a B Class. It ran on the first production SD trucks though. Or as rebuilt into an A Class as in this picture link...

In post #27, the third picture reminds me of the Keddie Wye on the old Western Pacific. Very cool. Greg Elems Reno, NV USA

The WP yard in Stockton CA had a great lead for switching. It was long and the only time we needed the mainline was to build trains and swing them over to the mainline or departure tracks. While Stockton was big for the WP, it was really a small yard with around 40 tracks. Not all were used...

Ralph, After he made the joint he coupled the air hoses and cut the air in. Then he released the hand brake. Some hand brakes have a handle that you pull or push away from the hand brake wheel, depending on which side he was standing on. They don't always release on the first try so the...

Kicking cars isn't against the rules in the book. Even with the rules about getting on and off moving equipment, kicking cars is still possible. We kick cars all the time in level yards. There is an art to it, knowing how fast to let a car go. When you uncouple a car, you use the cut lever...

Hello Cabdriver, what you saw them do we call "kicking" If the yard is flat or not on a grade you kick the cars to get them to roll down the lead or ladder track into the rail you want them. Here in Sparks Nevada our yard is on a 1% grade so when we switch on the top end, all we have to do is...