December issue of MRH Mag. This video shows how to derail a train...succsess after several trys. I would say in HO a gap of 1/2 inch should not be a problem. Just my guess. Anyway interesting video.

Whatever it takes to win a war.

As a newbie trying to learn all I can about how real railroads operate and how we emulate that in our modeling I spend a lot of time watching videos as well as reading on the internet.  I came across this series of videos by 'CNLVN' on Youtube.

Please find the Monday Night Mail Train attached.

     Carrying on from my last blog, my other passion at present is travel. We have traveled to most parts of Australia and overseas we have been to the UK 8 times and to Ireland, Europe, South East Asia, New Zealand. Fiji, Hawaii, Canada and Alaska. In 2011 my wife and I bought a small motor-home in which we plan to explore the more "off the beaten track" places in Australia.

It has been a long and busy summer, but not for working on the railroad. The trackwork is reasonably stable now, having suffered a few more changes. Sitting with potation in hand mentally operating the railroad has been fruitful. Track in the mine area was extended and a cross-over added that enabled switching runarounds that would otherwise have proved difficult. An interchange track was added between the Tamworth extension (an area built on top of the helix) and the main. And the Deseronto yard got a small restructuring as well.