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This will be the last in my series from “A Day on the A & T”. The return trains to Alpine would be a bit redundant. But for those of you who have taken a look you have pretty much seen how an operating session on the A. & T. R.R. is accomplished. It takes from three to four real time hours to...

It is a hot, sunny, late morning down in Terlingua, Texas. The passenger run from Alpine is due in a few minutes. The folks waiting to greet friends, associates and loved ones keep to the shady and somewhat cooler area under the station’s overhang. Baggage carts and the REA truck are at the...

Continuing a “Day on the A & T” finds all three of the daily (except Sunday) trains out on the main. At Alpine the Southern Pacific East and Westbound passenger and freights have respectively drop off folks and freight headed for points South on the A & T. So, OT-1 (the Southbound ore train) is...

Gentlemen, Well, that’s it for the Holidays! I hope all of yours were as great as mine. My wife and I spent three weeks up in Chicago with my family so I have been off the board since the 13th of December. Glad to be back! Thanks to my wife and , Sisters and Nephews, I had an “N-Gauge...

OT-1 (empty ore cars going to the “Cat Pause Mine”) out on the main has just crested the grade out of Jacqueline Heights, is about to come off the steam and start the long drift down to the mine.

The activity level remains high at Alpine, Texas as folks headed for points East gather at the station. Off in the distance the Southern Pacific local passenger train can be heard whistling for a crossing as it approaches Alpine.................

Gentlemen, I asked Gerald Styles to snap a few pictures at our club meeting Tuesday night. Our club "The El Paso & Southwestern N Scale Society" http://www.epaswmrra.8m.com/ builds N Trak modules for set ups at the various shows around the great Southwest. When not at shows the modules...

Hi! These photos won’t win any contests but they DO show how we operate on the A & T R.R. Now that the engines have been serviced and things have been swapped at the sawmill, everyone grabs a cup of coffee and waits for ‘SPFEB’ which is the Southern Pacific’s eastbound freight out of El Paso...

Hello Logging People! I’m having some fun chronicling a day on my Alpine & Terlingua. On the N gauge forum I posted some pictures of the Alpine yards and the crew getting the A & T’s engines ready for the days work. At the same time about 25 miles down the line the "Shaymaxler" is roaring out...

As you may have guessed, the Alpine & Terlingua is my pride and joy! I thought I would chronicle a typical day (an operating session) on the A & T with photos. I don’t have a very good digital so close ups fall out of background focus, but what the heck. I thought some of you may want to follow...

Gentlemen, Thanks for all the help with posting pictures. I finally got it figured out with all of your help. here's: The Alpine coaling tower The Alpine roundhouse The Edwards sawmill complex My "Shaymaxler" at the S.P. cutoff And at the other end of the main - Terlingua

I am having trouble posting pictures within a "Post". I have 'Art Soft' and can resize them. But when I "Browse and Click" nothing shows up in the "Preview". What's the deal? Thanks for any help.

Gentlemen, I received the new MR a couple of days ago. MRC introduced a new stand alone sound system with city and country sounds. It looks like it may be the answer to the missing outdoor sounds on our layouts. The unit is physically similar to their train sounds system. However this one...

:) Gentlemen, This looks like a great forum! There are so many out there that one could spend all of their “hobby time” punching stuff into forums. Since I like to run trains, operate and work on my railroad I thought I’d pick a forum and stick with it for a while. On the other hand I also...