Some nice photos and description of the ongoing restoration of Rio Grande Southern #20:

http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,255964

The Colorado Railroad Museum is still looking for donations, to fund this restoration work.  If you're interested, more information on donating is located:

http://shop.coloradorailroadmuseum.org/SelectSKU.aspx?skuid=1002229

I want to put sound in a Bachmman Spectrum 2-8-0. I got the loco for a good price and I have put a Spectrum Vanderbilt Medium tender on it as shown:

Here's a write up by Tom Mix on scratch building O scale steam engine drivers. Very impressive work.

http://www.proto48.org/p48_art_05.htm

Bernd

On Friday I received a package containing two brass locomotives. These locomotives were described as models that would not run and that were shorting out when applied power to them. The warmning was very prevalent, it was in the headlng of the posting as well as the body of the posting.

I decided I would buy one or two of the will not run items, I was buying them stickly for parts. The auction was quite large and the two items i bought went for about one third the price of what the locomotives that ran fine were fetching.