Recent content by dmb3006

Thank you all for the responce.I do live in a retirement park.The nearest Model RR club is in flagler county north of Volusia county where we live Those were great FEC sites I saw more than 15 trains today

My beloved NYC HO layout is scraped and all locomotives and cars sold.We have relocated from the Syracuse NY area to Port Orange Florida near Daytona Beach.I now live in a retirement mobile home park no space for a model RR.There is a very active RR Xing 1/4 mile from the house at night I hear...

I have a magazine article from 1988 (MR) The fellow used a ATLAS relay to operate flashing RR Xing signals.They look like Model Power signals.I know they run on AC power;but don't you need some kind of actification device to make the lights flash on and off.Also could a simple red and green...

Thanks for the kind remarks.I looked this evening at my locomotives.2 BACH.4-8-4 Niagara,! IHC Hudson.1 IHC 4-8-2. 2 Mantua 4-6-2,1 0-6-0 shop Goat Atlas RS11,RS 1,FM H16-44,KATO RS2,Life Like FM C Liner (2) FM ERIE Built 2 AB 2 SW8's2 GP7's,Inter mt. F7A,Athern PA A&B Thomas & James Sir Top of...

:cool: Hi everyone,we have been doing some up grades to our home.The bath room on the 1st floor was being remodeled.the tub shower had been removed for replacement leaving the hole the pipes and drain to the soil pipe exposed.Our cat went into the basement train room.I had almost all of my NYC...

You are in grave danger young Railroader.Engine-itus is about to take root in your body.The malady is progressive.There is no cure.If you come into a copy of the Diesel Spotters Guide you are indeed a lost man.Above all do not look at any book by Alvin Stauffer on locomotives.The Walters catalog...

I agree the new book on yard planning is great.Tileguy you made many goog points.I need to look at the fact that most of the time I will be operating the Railroad by myself.24 inch reach in is important to me.Maybe 30+ from a step up in some places(corners)I think a little information is in...

Thanks guys nice yard and engine service area.Dream with me a minute.I want a 2 track main line.My yard will be a division point Most trains will change power.Diesel's east steam west.Passenger trains will do mail and express or drop or pick up sleepers or diners.I like solid express and maybe a...

Thank God I've been bogged down with a couple of problems with my old Corvette.I was doing some work on the layout room when my wife said the sink upstairs was'nt draining.In trying to get the pipe cap off,the back of the pipe caved in.Well the house was built in 1955 and in two years we have...

A few years back,SteamTown in Scranton Pa. had a passenger run to Syracuse NY.They had NYS&W #142 a 2-8-2 double headed behine MILW 261 a 4-8-4 with a good size train.I went to see it go by at the ONTRAK station near the S.U. sports stadium.That was some sight and sound.I wish you could have...

I wish this would happen.I'm New York Central hard core;but have a soft spot for the DL&W RR,the other road that served Syracuse NY.That would be a nice 80 mile ride to Binghamton NY.There are some nice railroad stations still standing on this line.There is a DL&W line that runs north of...

Can someone tell me why this design was developed and used ?? It looks like the engine crews would have hated them.In the cold or wet weather. :cool:

:cool: I was doing errans in East Syracuse NY yesterday.My buseness took me out on RT.290 that runs along side of the old NYC PC Conrail,now CSX Dewitt yard,and the former AMTRAK station.What a blow.The station has been torn down and the large parking lot is now used for semi trailer and truck...

Hi everyone back home after our trip to the Northern part of upstate NY.Didn't get to the hobby shop.I've been trying to use the paint brush program on the PC to make a outline of my layout space,with very poor results.How do you use the computor to make drawings of areas and track plans?

Hello Andrew thank you for the reply.I will respond monday with a rough drawing.We have a funeral Friday,and a wedding out of town Saturday.I was lookingt at Model Railroader last night and see a hobby shop in Norwood NY that I will Visit If i can fit it in.On my way to NYC HOJACK country.That...