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Hello, Unfortunately they don't make a gearing kit for the Hustler anymore. Your best bet is to see if eBay would have one avaialble, their called the Ernst Gearing Kit. I haven't touched mine in a while but they do turn the Hustler into something more tame for switching. As far as rubber...

Sumpter, I saw your work over at the Big Blue forum and I liked those progress shots. I do like how it turned out, if it were possible to incorporate a horbor scene into the Whiskey River Railway I'd do it. The WRRy is kind of landlocked though, with only it's namesake river (which is moreso...

More on C1 and some new additions WRRy caboose C1 got a little more work done to her yesterday. I painted her roof and the toolbox black. I do have a issue I haven't had before, when I peeled back the masking tape some of the paint on the window castings came off with the tape. What I'm...

Very well done movie, Doc Tom! I like how the #110 came out, it looks pretty close to the real kettle. Keep up the good work!

WRRy C1 making slow progress While I haven't been making any progress designing Camp Pierre or any other module for potential use while I've been here, I did get a little handy working on caboose C1 and inspecting the Bachmann van that Bob gave to me. I took down dimensions of the original...

Doc, I like it! I contemplated building a LRRR #110 for the WRRy but the railroad is at that point in time where it would need bigger power for the heavier cars so motive power this small would be close to outdated. That's why the WRRy only has two 4-4-0's which are on the huskier side and one...

The more and more I look at it, I almost want one. Kinda like my wacky love affair with owning a deuce and a half from the Vietnam era. There's no real need for it (except if I needed to move or we somehow got flooded) but I really want one. Except mine would be family friendly... see the bottom...

Railroad MRAP? While cruising through the internet, I found this curious picture. I want to know where this is and where I can find some more pics of it. Tyler

Doc and Bill, The L shaped module is more than likely what I'd build while I'm here, for the simple fact I can use it to do switching moves more so than a big yard. At first I wanted my quarry to be a separate module to give it distance but I never thought about how it could be integrated into...

Modifying Plans and maybe some progress... we'll see I haven't been on here much due to the simple fact that since I've been in Korea I've not only been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off trying to inprocess various places but my household goods haven't come to me yet...

Looks like progress is coming along at a fairly decent rate. Maybe after Korea and time depending on how quick the Army needs me at the next duty station I'll get to see this in person. Keep up the great work, I like seeing progress. Tyler

You're welcome sir james. Thank you for supporting us. Tyler

Camp Claiborne Bill, That sounds pretty cool. I know in WW2 the Brits used a narrow gauge rail line that ran along the coast and they built neat little anti aircraft guns on these amusement park sized trains. Here is the link to that railroad...

Since I've joined the Army, I've been interested in the history of the Army Transportation Corps and what they used as far as equipment and conducted their missions. Ironically since I'm back in Korea I found a Korean War article that is pretty...

Doc and Bill, Thanks for the prayers, it sure helped getting placed where I am now. And Doc, I was at the dental company last time I was here, this time around I had no idea where I was going. I started a thread in the r/c section here on Zealot, but unfortunately since this site is pretty...

Gents, I made it to Korea safe and sound. I got one hell of a surprise when I was almost done inprocessing at Camp Casey, I was interviewed to work up at the Joint Security Area at Pan Mun Jom (also known as the DMZ). There aren't many of us who work up here as most of the work is done by the...

One of my good friends is from Vermont, and it's funny because he's trying to argue to a Wisconsinite about how Vermont cheese is better. He never won. He did get me on the maple syrup however. I joined the Army because I wanted a decent job without going to college, traveling all over was just...

No worries Zathros. It should only be a short break in communication and then I'll be back to posting nonsense and dreams and such. Tyler

Normally I live in the model railroading side of Zealot, but I'm venturing into new horizons. A long time ago I had found this video and became hooked on a new journey that will combine both hobbies: B36PhUhPmuI I've found out that Roco had made a WW2 US GMC CCKW (holy acronyms!) that had a...

Zathros, For the heck of it, I signed up for the pressure test paper. You got me wondering what it's all about, as not only can I use it for train stuff but R/C stuff too since I'm slowly getting back into that. I've got some crazy R/C ideas, you may just have to stay tuned... Tyler