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Hi and welcome to The Gauge, Sorry i haven't been here for a while and just saw your question. Your train is Lionel made sometime between 1973 and 1975 except for the Reading hopper which was made from 1986 to 1990. The track section you have is O27, this is the same gauge as O gauge but has a...

I will be getting a first hand look at the devastation on Friday. My parents and my wife are in Simi Valley right now for my mother to have surgery. We are hoping the fire keeps going away from the hospital! We have family in San Bernadino that lost their home. They had enough warning to get...

It is looking great, Paul! One of these days I am going to get into On30. My wife saw the ore dump cars from Bachmann recently at a hobby shop and loved them. I just don't have the room right now for another scale:p :D . I would love to see more pics of your rolling stock as I would like to...

I never get tired of seeing pictures of your creations! I get inspiration for my garden RR (narrow gauge logging and mining themed) from your work every time. Please keep the pics coming! Steve

It is my understanding here in CA they use the barcodes that pass a scanner as mentioned earlier. When we toured the UP's Roseville, CA yard about two years ago, part of the tour included the hump yard. As cars came to the throat they passed a scanner which read the barcode and sent the info to...

Where do I start?:confused: I have enough track tools with the hardhats and lanterns to hand lay track day and night til I fell over and died.:eek: Besides all the matchbooks,TT,maps and all the other normal stuff people collect I have several more unique items. A Santa Fe conductors uniform...

I refuse to pick one scale, that's why I have so many!:D I have the G gauge out in the garden. O and S gauge in the train room. Our modular layout is O gauge with a N scale train in a park representing live steam. The park section is removable and with a few scenery changes and buildings it...

Thanks for the pics! Wow, we sure don't have any train shops like that around here. I noticed in the pictures that they also have a nice collection of postwar American Flyer. Thanks for sharing this with us. I don't know if I will ever see it in person, but thanks to great people like Tyson, we...

Welcome to The Gauge, Tell us a little about yourself, like what you model and so on... Steve

All of this is old news to me. I heard about this a few years back, only it wasn't just the UP. BNSF was also planning to add the license fees. As was stated at the time, they are trying to protect their image and logos. Think of it this way, if you owned a business would you like someone making...

Hey Paul, Great to hear you're feeling better. It makes me feel better, too! The layout is looking good. I have been busy bashing G gauge equipment for my garden RR which is mining and looging themed, so I look forward to your pics for info and inspiration. Thanks for what you have given us all...

Hi Chuck, Welcome to the Gauge. Glad you finally signed up. Lots of good people here, so ask all the questions you want. Someone will have an answer:D . I like N scale too. They make great looking live steam trains next to my O and G gauge:D :D :p . Plus a hear the lil' boogers make great...

Congrats on the appointments, guys! I am sure you will both do the best you can to keep this place top notch. Great to hear Paul is doing well, I wish you all the best my friend. You are "The Gauge" and your absence is felt! P.S. Jon, glad the meds are working so you could take on such a...

Hey Andrew, Those are the lamps I was thinking of. I have seen one for sale for $500. I don't know if it sold for that but that is what they wanted for it. Steve

Hey Camelot, Great pics and thanks. The first one answered a couple of questions I had regarding detailing my Climax. Do you have anymore pics like that one? I just got back from the Big Train Show on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. It is a strictly G gauge show. I picked up some detail...

Hi Earle and welcome to the Gauge, There aren't that many of us 3 railers on board here or larger scales at all for that matter. But there are alot of great ideas and people. Next time you have a ? like this you might put it in the S/O and G thread, might catch someone who only looks there. Now...

Hi Andrew, I am assuming you are talking about caboose marker lamps? If so, around here you can expect to pay around $300-400 for one. And yes that is US dollars! So in my experience it sounds like a fair price. My two cents worth. Steve

Hi and Welcome to the Gauge, Like Russ said there are a bunch of good folks here and most don't bite:D You might watch out for Jon Monon though:D :D Seriously though, looks like from your website you are pretty experienced in your modelling. If you have any questions, just ask and someone...

Hey Andrew, Glad it helped. The model A was made for a number of years and came in several different styles. I have seen them with rubber front wheels and with all steel. The steel back wheels allowed for more traction. I would guess that the rubber front wheels are later models, but I don't...

Hey Andrew, I forgot to say in my last post that the tractor looks good(no matter the colors). I finally found that website for John Deere tractors. They don't have a pic of your tractor, but if you click on their products for sale there is a metal sign with your tractor on it. The website is...