Posted by Alex Burnett
I don't have a functioning layout so, at the moment, all my pleasure comes from buying junkers and getting them back into respectable operating condition.My current project started out with the purchase of a Mantua 4-6-2 from an acquaintance on a Facebook group of which I am a member. Here is what I...
Posted by Rick Phipps
As the country song goes, I get by with a little help from my frinds and in this case it is with the decisions about the layout and the response I got from my last blog. As my earlier blog stated, I had gotten burned out from working on a layout that wasn't matching what I had hoped to achieve and w...
Posted by Rick Phipps
I have been running around in my mind for five months the question of whether to get out of the hobby or not. When I first started this hobby it was because of a friend of mind who had built an HO scale layout with his son over the years and they were constantly inviting me over to see it operate. I...
Posted by Dave Poor
Engine Assignments for Trains Arriving / Departing Wells River October 31, 1949 through Janu...
Posted by Phil Holman
If you read my intro and personal information - you will know I have a lot of different modelling things on the go at any one time. Why? Because that way, if I feel that I am not progressing on one thing, I can simply move to another until the mood takes me back to the first thing. &...
Posted by George <gem |:) Metzger
I've been away for along time and you folks that asked me to join or become friends, l wasn't ignoring you. I apologize. I was wondering if the fellow who started this site would be interested in starting a parts depot. A place where members could trade, buy parts that they hav...
Posted by Peter Wehrhahn
Just like my US-Diesel calendar, here comes the one for the narrow gauge and steam buffs. I like to share my free downloadable calendar available at my modellcom-blog. Sorry, but the site is only in german, but you may use the translation function to get a little idea about what is going on there (r...
Posted by Peter Wehrhahn
Same procedure as last year! I like to share my free downloadable calender available at my modellcom-blog. Sorry, but the site is only in german, but you may use the translation function to get a little idea about what is going on there (railroads, real and model and cardmodeling). The calendar i...
Posted by Joseph Antosiak
The HO layout at the Baltimore Society of Model Engineers was about 55 feet long, with a city at one end, farms and small towns in the middle, and wooded mountains at the other end. One year I added a set of four bears --one standing next to a tree with one arm raised, one standing on all fours, and...
Posted by Jeffery Gale
G'day all,This is my first kit, it's a JV Models, N scale Lukas sawmill.Opening the kit I found that I had many scale size boards, so taking my downsize pill I took up my hammer and nails and got to work, LOL.I have found that here in Australia the worst thing in modelling logging is that we&n...