This short video shows my N-scale Con-Cor (~1986 vintage) Santa Fe Blue Goose (4-6-4) running with DCC sound during its final installation test before being shipped back to me.  I had the same professional installer (reasonably priced) that had converted a Walther’s DL109 for me last year.  This installation used a Digitrax SDN136PS which is also very reasonably priced. This is the same engine that can be seen in a couple of previous videos testing out my spline helix while running in DC prior to being converted to DCC.

I am designing an HO scale 0-6-0, and I'm trying to figure out how to make a weight for it.  Small locomotives benefit from as much weight as possible, so making the weight fit every available bit of space is a priority.  To that end, I've drawn a weight which fits very neatly inside the planned model:

Hi everyone,

I have a bachmann spectrum 4-6-0 and 4-4-0 on my HO thoroughfare gap railroad which is set around 1900. I am thinking of fitting some diamond stacks to these locos as I do like the look of the balloon and diamond stacked locos. 

My reasoning is that my railroad passes through a dense redwood forest and logging area and the diamonds would be used to arrest any sparks, even though these are coal fired locos I understand that some coal fired locos were and still are (in the case of the shays at cass) fitted with spark arresting stacks.

I have found some incredible photos of a shipbuilding industry that relied heavily on the Canadian Pacific Railway for its operations.  The advantage to us layout builders is this shipbuilding industry could fit on almost any size layout.