End date. A new field in addition to the build and rebuild dates. This could be used to note when the item was sold or scrapped by the railroad. Not by you!

Please respond for each selection. Yes or no only. If you respond maybe that will be counted as a no.

 Thats right, assuming that this thing works in Safari, because it sure ain't working in IE9, yes, in these two videos, I actually managed to produce two Withlacoochee River Reports in less than a week, and I hope to get back to the weekly program again, as well as other programs I had been working on.

 I am looking over my track plan with an eye to starting to purchase rail. Aside from asthetics, is there any real advantage to having Code 83 for the mainline and, say, Code 70 for the yards and sidings? Is there that much visual differnce once ballast, landscaping etc. is added? What about availability of various switches etc.? Cost? Transitioning?  Your thoughts would be appreciated as always.

Hi, Jack from Star, Idaho.  I ventured out and did some looking at the 70 ton three truck climax that I received as a replacement for the defective shay.  Well I opened up the water tender and found that the PCB had a small motor function decoder with a standard 8 pin plug.  I removed that and removed the PCB to expose the speaker housing.  There I found that a one inch 8 ohm speaker fit perfectly in the factory made area  for the speaker.  No drilling holes or creating an area for the speaker a great improvement.

 Hi All,

I posted a couple of short videos the other day after a request about short management on another thread, so after some favourable feedback and wanting to help others I've decided to take the next step.

I am going to produce a series of "How to for Model Railroaders" videos based around the building of the JL&T Railway.  If everybody enjoys the series and I have the blessing from MRH, I will produce a wide variety of topics of the process from building our layout.

This is my Design that I am building now. Two Issues I need help on, one is how do I ballast a yard? Do I cover the entire yard with even gravel or do I make like on the mains?

and second, How do you model dirt and grass, I know you can make/buy a static grass machine, but other that that what can you use??

Well, I was going to show you my plan, but I can't upload a PDF to show up....

Thanks.

Basic benchwork in the layout room is done, and I was eager to get started on subroadbed, including my first shot at spline construction (see http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/4683   ).  But I had to get the backdrop out of the way.  1/8" masonite curves well down to about 18 inch radius.  Below that, I was too chicken to find out with it dry.  But I did do a 10 inch radius corner after soaking the back at the curved portion with water (OK water and windex:  it was in the spray bottle already).  It was an easy one-man operation.  I supporte

Hello every one, I got the parts in Thursday night and worked on it friday night and got it done. My SD45 lighting project. Long story short I was working on it a couple days after I got it and had to remove all the lights and the PC board and hard wire it. I tried re adding lights with resistors, but that didn't work. This time I used a TCS VR 1.5. I think it came out great. Got head light, roof beacon (it's suposed to be programmed as a prime stratolite, never heard of it and I'm awaiting a reply from a friend on how to do this) gyro light and class lights. Hope you like it.

I realized I've been completing projects but otherwise leaving the peanut gallery out of the fray!  My apologies - here's a couple links!!

Wait a second!!  Ok, I say links because I've been trying something newer but not new.  I used to maintain a website on geocities, which neatly contained all my railroad projects and too much else.  Ugh.  Then they shut geocities down one night a couple years back and that was it, no more geocities.  So I no longer post a website anymore.