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Hi, Herc Driver, Do you have easements entering your curve? The base cause of your problem is as you described, the stock Kato coupler is a bit stiff (stiffer than Micro-Trains couplers), and combined with the fact the nose coupler is body-mounted, combined with the fact that most Kato...

Hi, LiveSteamer. I'm sure you're thinking of "Northlandz" in New Jersey. Although I haven't been to Northlandz, from what I've seen in photos of Northlandz, I would guess Miniature Wonderland in Germany displays a much higher level of detail and fidelity. It's incredible how many...

===================== Part 3: 15. Minature Wonderland Control Center - Looks like NASA - railroad is fully computer operated and automated 16. Minature Wonderland North Sea Sunflowers 17. Minature Wonderland - Overview of layout size and cost I hope...

================ Part 2: 7. Minature Wonderland - Landungsbrucken - a famous waterside restaurant in Hamburg 8. Minature Wonderland - a famous bridge, Kohlbrandbrucke, over Hamburg harbor 9. Minature Wonderland - model of AOL-Arena in Arena, complete with 12,000...

Hi, all, I was fortunate enough on my recent Europe business trip to visit the very large HO model railroad at Minature Wonderland: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/ This is the huge model railroad in a old historic warehouse district in Hamburg, Germany, with four different...

===================== Part 3: 15. Minature Wonderland Control Center - Looks like NASA - railroad is fully computer operated and automated 16. Minature Wonderland North Sea Sunflowers 17. Minature Wonderland - Overview of layout size and cost I hope...

================ Part 2: 7. Minature Wonderland - Landungsbrucken - a famous waterside restaurant in Hamburg 8. Minature Wonderland - a famous bridge, Kohlbrandbrucke, over Hamburg harbor 9. Minature Wonderland - model of AOL-Arena in Arena, complete with 12,000...

Hi, all, I was fortunate enough on my recent Europe business trip to visit the very large HO model railroad at Minature Wonderland: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/ This is the huge model railroad in a old historic warehouse district in Hamburg, Germany, with four different...

Good pics, folks! My layout is pretty small, 4 feet by 4 feet, made of two modules back to back: The track plan is: More about the little layout is at: http://home.comcast.net/~j.sing/Peavine_Layout_Overview.html

Oops, I disqualify myself. I did not realize that LPB was this month's topic (thought it was only photo contest). There are no LPBs in my photo (that I know of anyway, not even in the loco's cab!) I withdraw. Sorry!!!!

San Diego Model RR Museum Update - La Mesa HO Tehachapi Layout I've just posted a small January 2005 progress update to my Oct 2004 behind-the-scenes photo essay of this famous layout. Significant progress has been made and the Tehachapi Loop is taking shape. You can see the photos...

Hi, OK, I'll jump in. I finally finished decaling and numberboarding my third Santa Fe GP30 (all three are from the 1993-era run by Kato/Atlas). Here's a shot of the three of them on their maiden run as a triplet:

By the way, reason the modeled station has a 'front porch covered area' and the photo of today's real station does not, is that portion of the building was removed prior to the time that the City realized what a architectural gem it had there. So, the model represents exactly the way the...

Interurban, Yes, the photo in the referenced thread is the San Diego station. You can see that the N scale model is faithful, exact-to-scale, uncompressed replica. San Diego Station building notes from Salamon A little note about the station from David Salamon, who was a member...

Hi, all, Thanks to Jim Bence, Tony Burzio, Mark Galbreath, and all the other San Diego Society of N Scale (SDSONS) members for hosting me and the Santa Fe Trainmaster to the N scale Pacific Desert Lines at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum ( http://www.sdsons.org ) on Tuesday night...

And the camera does make interesting illusions, here's some Santa Fe passenger F units existing the tunnel on the back module: And some Santa Fe GP7s with a reefer block:

Hi, all, Here's some pictures on my N scale layout, ATSF_Arizona's Santa Fe Peavine Line As of January 2, 2005, here's a synopsis of the little 4' x 4'x N scale Santa Fe Peavine Line. You can see more at: http://home.comcast.net/~j.sing To get a perspective, here's what the layout...

Hi, guys, I'm guessing again, but based on my interpretation of my Santa Fe research hobby, It appears that the F3s, being passenger units, basically survived into the 1970s CF7 rebuild program. Ready to stand corrected. I think part of the reason the passenger F3s/F7s stayed on and...

Hi, UP Santa Fe, Yes, Santa Fe did use their Warbonnet painted passenger F units to haul freight. Greg Elems did nice job of explaining how the passenger Fs were used post-Amtrak. Prior to Amtrak, there were two basic ways Santa Fe used Warbonnets for freight: 1) Santa Fe bought...

Hi, I've posted these many times, hope the repetition isn't minded: More at: http://home.comcast.net/~j.sing