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is your locomotive catching on the switch machine itself? if so there is a piece that comes in the package with the turnout and it moves the control over a little to avoid this, will save you having to cut it and solder

iwould suggest you pick one style of coupler and stick with it first off. buy the kaydee coupler gauge, and some shims to correct the couplers to all the same height and most of your troubles will be solved. the guage is the best piece of equipment you can buy for your layout, saves a pile of...

you will be very limited to most smaller steamers, can you fit 18 " in your plan or space?

guessing they were in the middle of the train? as pushers? or those cars in the front not from that train? interesting photo anyways

places to view trains in toronto area. if you want to make a short train trip with your son and walk, go to Mimico GO Station and walk towards Isington Ave , walk across the bridge, usually lots to see there over looking the yard. another good place is MacMillan Yards CN's north Toronto yard...

here are sonme current GE units under smoke, not as much smoke but i thought it wasa good showing for new models. i cannot get my pics to link and show here, what did i not do right?

wehn you lay your track in real you will have some play room left and can always cut a small piece to make it fit or cut some off to make it fit. nothing planned comes out 100 percent as planned

No i do not remember those days wish i was able to take pictures back then.

i have not been tothe museum since the open house in august but if it is open i usually stop by pay my admission a quick tour and leave just my way of supportting the group

pictures taken last Saturday first time using a digital camera for train watching took a bit to learn the new stuff hate the delay time between shutter and picture taking http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/stuart_chowchows/album?.dir=/9573re2&.src=ph&.tok=phbt5WGBxaD25nq6

bacchmann does not produce any new dd40 models, any you would find would be old or used ones, might be ones sitting ona shelf in some store for years. athearn makes a semi model of one, you would have to change some details and cabs ebay is the only place to them right now

what sort of questions do you have? i am sure there is a load of information here to be shared. just ask and see what answers you get

some hobby stores have light kits you can install in various cars...but mostly you will only find passenager cars and cabooses with lights, so you might try there

if your going to run something that size 22 is the bare min you require you will have a lot of hang over the tracks, i would go bigger then 22, nothing smaller then 24 or 26 to make it look better

it was with older models, the problems were fixed very quick in the next mdoels that came out

i have a gp18 by proto 2000 ( i do not have my models handy in another country still have to bring back to canada) anyways it had cracked grears, i called life like soon as it stopped running and I arranged for replacement grears to be sent but they decided to have me send my unit back in for...

i learned from a mistake, the motor is for dc voltage only, i hooked mine up to the wrong side and almost burned it out. get a atlas control for the turn table and it will work better i am sure

the lack of detail and other problems with the shell, i am not sure it is worth the price of re motoring and putting in new grears ( the trucks are also nosiy in mine) , after all that cost and hard work i think you might be better off to park that monster, fire breathing unit on a siding and...

looks like an older bachmann drive from the early to late 70s, before the pancake motor, noisy and not a great drive system, i have one of them in a gp 40 or gp 30

if you go to http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/stuart_chowchows/my_photos click on toronto railway lands, you will see some pics of the area from the lates 80s early 90s