Hi Alan, The 1953 ORER lists 199 cars of type RS in the series 93000 through 93950, so it looks as if the cr number is reasonable. In the book...
Hi Dave, The radius of a curve is measured from the track centerline. So a 17-inch radius curve [a complete 360 degree circle] would have the...
Alan, your original post got me thinking and I did a little research. The following is a summary of some data from the January 1953 ORER....
Originally posted by JPB: I'm still looking for a distributor who carries rail. You guys also mentioned gauges that you use. I've had...
The Terraserver webpage has aerial photography and topographic maps of most of the US. This URL may get you directly to a topo map of Huntington...
1950's in Milwaukee. Chicago was a hub and there were railroads trying to get around the time delay of routing cars around the Chicago area......
Hi Peter J, I hope you don't think this is a trivial answer, but I've been keeping my inventory in an Excel spreadsheet. The reasons are that...
I was introduced to HO as a six-year old back in 1963 and it stuck for 15 years. For me too, it always had seemed the "right" size. I...
were in Kennewick, WA this morning on their way over to the car and locomotive shops to get refurbished. I took some pictures of them and would...
Another option is Adobe Acrobat if you happen to have it. It installs on your computer like a printer, so it works with any software that can...
Mr. Dante, Thnak you very much for the insight. I never realized that until I saw your post. "When the kids come home with their boyfriends...
I was pretty impressed with the Union Freight RR layout that was in the September to December (2000) MR. I liked the urban scenery, the concept...
I've often wondered if it would be possible to archive back issues on CD-Rom. Of course, you need a computer to revisit the back issues, but...
Thanks for the welcome. I hope I posted to the right place and in the right way. I'm kind of new to this type of communication! Your first...
I'm a newbie and an oldbie. I had my first layout back in 1966 when I was 9; kept modeling until I was 19 in 1976. Mostly HO, a variety of...
