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My layout is small so when I was plastering I used plaster cast gauze that I obtained form out vet, was very reasonably priced and went a long way. Our club on the other hand has several very large areas to cover in plaster. If we went the commercial method of buying the gauze plaster cloth ...

Was in one of the big box lumber stores this morning and ran into a fellow modeler who was not happy. He advises that he was just down the road at a book store and looking at the model railroad magazines and thinking of purchasing one when he noticed the price: US $4.99 Canadian $6.99 ?? He...

Came across this, a novel way to store/dispence fuel..opens many ideas for modeling..Ron

We were up horseback riding a couple of weeks ago in to the remote areas, stopped off at a farm to pick up more people/horses for the ride, came accross these on their property so took a few photos...Ron

Was at the local train show this am, saw a small traction module so took some photos..Ron..

A buddy has asked me to build a couple of On30 switches for him, for his small switching layout that is 2ft by 6ft. What I need to know is the size of the switch ties ? Do you go normal switch tie measurements with an O scale ruler? Can you use HO switch ties (properly spaced) ? He has a...

What is the minimum wire requriements for the downleads and the bus wire using the digitrax system? We are presently building ourlarge club layout and at the stage of putting in the wire for our digitrax system. There seems to be a discussion going on amongst the members at to what the minimum...

Do you need to seal homosoate with anything before using scenery or ballast on it? In our area homosoate is very difficult to come by and our club has not used it in the past, this layout we have located a supplyer of homosoate and and using it for track roadbed. We have not as yet laid any...

With hand laying track for many years I have been away from flex track, with the latest look of flex track it now looks good. I will be handlaying the front tracks on the logging layout but five lengths of peco code 83 flex track that I will be putting down on the back of the layout where most...

While going down the stairs the other day one of the family dogs took out my footing and down i went, ouch !!!! that hurts !!!. just though i had badly sprained it but was very sore in one spot. Went to the dr.'s yesterday to get it checked out and sure enough the x rays show its broke. Have...

With the layout progressing quite well, old time logging theme, I am now at the point of seriously considering going to DCC in purchasing a digitrax system. On the layout I have several hand made turnouts that work good and have had no problems on a DC system. My question is: can they be used...

Caught this comming through in the early afternoon

Was at work today and just happened to be down by the tracks today and this came through. CN on the head end and the second engine had no markings at all.

found these the other day in my travels at work....they are on chicken barns...

About 1pm today an east bound Canadian National train consisting of two locomotoves and 101 cars was proceeding east bound just east of here. As the train came out of a curve and onto a strait portion of track it was confronted with a large boulder that was on the track. This boulder was the...

As we know CN bought out BC Rail a short time ago, I was wondering when we are going to start to see BC Rail equipment on CN lines, well was working last night and at 3:00am a CN coal train came through with a CN loco on the lead and BC Rail 4613 right behind it.. Will have to keep an eye out...

Was working the other night and was down by the tracks, I was a set of lights approaching so decided to see the CN or Cp freight rumble through. As it got closer I noticed that it was not waisting any time, going faster that most freights, and as it got up to me I noticed that the front end was...

It has been a long time since i have been here and it is good to be back. This summer has been not one that I enjoyed, work has been unreal and just about to the point of being unbearable, so busy and so much overtime, it ran me ragged. Had to go back to the praries in August, my mother took a...

There is good and bad news in everything so they say.. well the bad news was received a month ago. The building that we were renting the up stairs for the last 12 years or so was sold. The new owner advised the club that he had not made up his mind as to what he was going to do, but early in...

I have two modules to build for my layout, 5 ft x 30 inches, I am concidering using blue/pink foam. I will make a rectangular frame using 1 x 4's. I am concidering using foam set inside the frame instead of the plywood top to make them lighter so I can move them to the work bench or barn for...