Thanks fellas. You've been of great help. I think bridges are the best features of a layout and I'm kinda particular of using the right bridge/...
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I'm going to be scratch building some bridges for the layout and I'm loking for reference or knowledge as to what bridge types and why they were...
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If you have an extra passenger car, say a baggage/ mail car make a masonite track cleaner out of it. For wheel cleaning I use a dremel, buffing...
decided on wood trestle. thanks feel free to delete post
I'm building some n scale deck plate girder bridges (with the steel siding facing down) on a shallow radius and at the center of the radius, the...
Thanks Mr. Straw. I will give the dullcoat a try. To bad they cant be sandblasted.lol lol. BTW, thanks to you fellas, I finally got the SF PA...
I'm using a brush and plasti-kote brand auto touch up paint.
I need to paint some black plastic truck frames silver but the plastic has a shiny surface that makes paint chip off and hard to stick to. it's...
I was reading where B&O and NYC were experimenting with different drive diameters for different efficiancy purposes in the early 1900's. B&O no...
Great link. Never seen that one and it had just what I was looking for. Much appreciated sir.
I've looked at a few steam rosters from the Baltimore Ohio steam era and read where they had the Light Mikado 2-8-2 but I haven't seen any...
Cool project Mr. Sowell
never heard of that one.
I run all metal wheels on my cars. Before making the maintenance cars, I had to physically clean the track every few hours to get the diesels to...
I like the roller car idea. Might just try and make one. I have 3 or 4 of the slider cars already. Each car ends up different with the hole...
I have 1 maintenance block i added 1200 grain sandpaper to the bottom of and I will run that a couple laps maybe once a year. The added weight on...
Anyone else make their own rail maintenance cars using epoxy, roofing nails and masonite. I cut a square out on the bottom of the car and epoxy a...
Going by the pic of the gears on the Bachmann site that they are sold out of, look like the gear of the ones that are missing from mine and not...
