Recently I installed a new work desk, and found I needed a new magnifier for it. So I went about shopping on the internet for a magnifying lamp of sorts. I used to have one on my workbench where I used to be employed, and it worked very well for surface mount soldering, but I didn’t know much about it, other than what it looked like. So I set out shopping.

Kevin said he was going to pick my brain about the rail bender I made. I figured I better do something quick before my brain has been picked bare.

Here's what Kevin was talking about. In my thread on the quarry tram line I wanted to see what a 10" radius looked like and whether a quarry car idea I had would work on a 10" radius curve. So I did a test track using my home made rail bender.

CITY OF INDUSTRY LAYOUT Project 02-12

Here is my second project, and it is a departure from my previous plan to begin design on the MP/TP operations in New Orleans, namely the Race St. Yard, and Annunciation St. Passenger Terminal, with some of the surrounding industry which the railroad served, i am still in the very rough planning stage for it still gathering information and maps and photographs of the area for the time period during the war and just afterward, pre-NOUPT era.

I have items like fences, road barriers and the like to add to my cork or foam base on my HO layout. My question is simple:

How do you attach them. For trees and telephone poles I drill a very small hole and glue a straight pin. Just the tip of the pin which is very hard to cut by the way. This actually works well. The straight pin allows me to move the object around until I find the most pleasing position.

So what do I you do. Something similar? Is there an easier way?