Recent content by steinjr

Hi Wayne -- Thanks for the welcome. I just had to come over and have a look at the site where the pictures of your magnificent layout was home based. Too bad I arrived in the middle of the crowdgather/moderator mass resignation thing - every second post seems to be about talented people...

Hmm - it shows up just fine for me - it is just a jpg - no weird format or anythng. Here is a direct link: http://home.online.no/~steinjr/trains/modelling/forum/waxon03b.jpg Stein

Is a continous run loop a given ? You can fit a pretty nice scene in 2x6 or 2x8 feet if you have the track run e.g under a bridge at the end of the scene out onto a detachable cassette - so you can move a train off the layout to a staging track on a shelf elsewhere or turn it around. Here...

I would recommend adding "car float" as a search term. That's what the flat deck barges with tracks on top pushed by tow boats usually were called. A couple of nice pictures of a Walthers car float being assembled and a prototype photo of a CNJ (Central of New Jersey) car float with a small...

Yeah - I got that program too (Model Builder). Design tool is not too bad, but the save/load file routines are pretty bad - program does not properly remember where objects were located and what was on top of what in layers - so it often is easier to start over from scratch when you want to go...

Good plan. 9 70-tonners and 2 SW-1500s sounds like a good roster for decent-sized model railroad. I've picked up a total of 7 diesel engines for my layout. Two home road (Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha - "Omaha Road") yard switchers, one parent company (Chicago & Northwestern) road...

Modesto and Empire, eh ? Wasn't that he shortline that has (had?) all those GE 70-tonners ? Was an article on them in Trains magazine a few years back, if I remember correctly. Sounds like a cool idea for a prototype! 23 modules doesn't sound like a too "modest" plan (if you forgive a weak...

Kurt and Loren - thank you to you too. After browsing around the forums a little, I am again struck by how much we all have in common as model railroaders and rail fans, despite living in places far apart and modelling different aspects of railroading. Ralph -- I very much liked your travel...

Thanks for the warm welcome! Hi Charlie, Josh and Ralph -- Thank you for your kind welcome messages. I guess I'd better get going on searching out older forum posts on various subjects, to see how others have done various things I am considering doing on my layout - like repainting and/or...

Hi people -- Just wanted to drop by and say "hi" to everyone for my first post here at The Gauge model trains forums.:wave: Quick description of myself : 43 years old, lives in Norway in Europe, had a Märklin layout as a child, but then left the hobby for about 30 years, until I got kids of...