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I found out at the railroad club's Christmas party last night that the Fullerton Railroad Days celebration that ordinarily occurs the first or second weekend of May each years has been canceled. A major reason for the Fullerton Plaza Railway Association to organize and promote the Railroad Days...

I don't subscribe to either mag, but I picked up the December issue of RMC at the hobby shop a couple of days ago. I don't normally read Hal Carstens editorials in the front of the mag, but I did read it this time. At the end of the column Hal mentions that the publisher of Rail Model Journal...

This past weekend the club I belong to, Orange County Module Railroaders did something we have never done in our history which dates beck to a few years before the founding of N-trak. We participated in two shows simultaneously on the same weekend. Part of the club set up and ran trains at the...

One of the most interesting things was a train elevator. www.ro-ro.net It is pricey, but I remember discussing with some one on the gauge the possibility of installing an elevator system to bring trains up from a lower level staging to the main layout! I also met the owners of this...

I'm a volunteer for the silent auction room from 9:00 am to noon this morning and Thursday morning. I'll be on the Cemex plant tour on Wednesday. If anyone on the Gauge is at the convention, I'd like to meet you folks. Come on by the silent auction room this morning or Thursday morning. My...

We have had tornados up in the area of the San Jac in Moreno Valley. One tornado flipped an 18 wheeler over and left it laying on it's side blocking all lanes on the 215 South just South of the 215/60 freeways in the Moreno Valley area. It also flipped a bunch of boxcars off the tracks next to...

I've noticed that if I don't open a thread for a day or two, when I go back to check on new posts, the Gauge forgets that I was ever viewing that thread and takes me back to post #1. My usual method with long threads with numerous pages is to go to the last page and then work back until I get...

I have found that I can view at most 2 or 3 threads on the Zealot, and then I get "Internet Explorer not responding" and end up having to close my browser and go back on line again. I regularly participate on 6 automotive bulletin boards and The Gauge section of the Zealot. The only one I have...

The buddy who sent me the tumble weed story, sent these links to me. I thought some of you guys would enjoy seeing them. He models Santa Fe in the 1970's, but when they were trying to merge SF & SP, he fell in love with the "kodachrome" scheme, so he built a bunch of SP & SF units in...

You guys back East may not be familier with tumbleweeds, but anybody living West of the Missippi is probably aware of them. Usually if you hit one with a car they just go "poof" and explode into little bits of dead weed. I just received an email from a buddy about a BNSF coal drag that was...

I started a new thread in the Tips & Tricks forum that is intended as a comprehensive tutorial on how to avoid or trouble shoot derailment problems on your model railroad. It is pretty much basic stuff, and it is a long read because the intention was to make it comprehensive. If anyone hasn't...

I was just looking through my Micro Mark catalog and they have a new product on the inside back cover. Part #83538. It is called a "Topside creeper". www.micromark.com I don't know how to post a link so you'll have to go to the web site and put in the part number to see a picture of it. It...

My brother is picking me up in about 4 hours to help him move from So Cal to Oklahoma City. I'll be away from the 'puter until the night before Thanksgiving. He'll be driving his Freightliner and I'll be driving his F350 with a car trailer in tow. We are going to try to drive straight through...

I have offerred to overhaul a worn out diesel engine for a local church camp for their Mustang tractor which is like a "Bobcat". I called my former boss where I used to work before retiring and asked to use the steam cleaner on the engine, and arrainged to meet the maintainance guy from the...

I stopped by my local hobby shop today, and they had the new Athearn gp40x's in stock. I bought one, and I can't believe the detail. It is Athearn r-t-r line, but it has detail like a Genesis model. We ran it on their test oval, and it runs so smooth and slow that I couldn't believe it. All...

I answered a post somewhere on the Gauge where a member was looking for inexpensive backdrops for his model railroad. My son-in-law sent us some pictures of our new grandson via a link to his Yahoo pictures page. There was a link from Yahoo to have prints made by our local Target store. I...

I haven't had time to get into my local hobby shop in a while. I stopped in today to see what's new, and found the new Athearn 50' Santa Fe ice bunker reefers. I bought 2, wish I had the money for 2 or 3 more. The level of detail on these "blue box" r-t-r cars is awesome! I'm wondering if...

I was doing a job in Corona, Ca. and had to make a run to San Bernardino for some personal business. The freeway runs parrallel to the BNSF main from Cajon pass through Riverside & Corona to the Santa Ana Canyon. Anyway, I saw a short train on the BNSF, 2 gp units on the point with about 6...

I was at the set up with the club for the Fullerton Railroad days display tonight. I was talking to one of the guys in the club who recently bought one of the new Athearn Genesis Challenger locos. He found that his model runs oposite the throttle setting on dcc (ie-it runs forward when he puts...

I started to post this as a response to a thread in the dcc forum, but decided it is more appropriate to post it here. I also think this might prompt some fun discussion. I belong to a moduilar club and also hope to build a home layout. My planned home layout was postponed when my youngest...