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Has anyone made a model of the Western Auto Parts Building in Kansas City, MO? I have someone at work who got the animated sign from Microstructures and I thought it would be nice to display it as if it were actually on the building it really stands on. Here is a picture of the building which...

I am going to be in Phoenix, AZ for about 3 weeks from 29 Oct-16 Nov and I was hoping that I could get together with some of you that live in the area. Maybe even show me some clubs down there while I'm there. I will have the weekends off including Veteran's day. Hope to hear from ya. Jake

I managed to make it to Boone, IA while the 844 was on display there for a day and a half. I know a guy that volunteers for the UP Steam and he showed me some areas of the cars that most people didn't get to see. If the Rear end car was unlocked I would have been able to get into it too. I...

Well I got off work early today and barely made it home. I got to the end of my driveway and turned the keys then walked up to my house for the shovel. So after snowblowing my driveway out (thanks to my neighbor), i pulled the truck into the garage and decided that i couldn't do anything else...

I saw this over on the Trains.com model railroader forum and I thought we could come up with some of our own. I cant think of any of my own at the moment but I'm sure some of you will have some good ones. Heres the link to what they had...

Here's a random thought I had this evening while finishing my install of my bathroom exhaust fan. If I were to take a trip and bring my DCC throttle with me so I could use it at a layout that I might be visiting. I would want to bring it in my carry-on so it wouldn't get damaged in my...

Hey if anyone's interested and sees this in the next half hr. The History Channel is showing Trains on Modern Marvels at 10/9c tonight.. It looks like they're gonna show the interworkings of dispatching, tracking cars, servicing engines. Jake

I was heading down to Des Moines last night and I decided to check out the Kate-Shelly High bridge on the way. It is definately a beautiful site and no pictures can do justice for the view. On the southwest side a dirt road goes down a hill and under the bridge as you can see in the first...

Yesterday I was cleaning out a room in the basement Sunday and I got that brainstorming while you're working kinda thing going on while I was in there. So I broke out the tape measure and checked the room out again. Then I went to one of the corners to figure out what kinda radii I could get...

Our club just purchased two of those hare decoders designed to plug right into the tortoise switch machines for a section of track so we can eliminate blind head-ons. Has anyone tried this with the Hare decoders or any other decoders? One guy at the club says that Digitrax's DS54s have more...

Does anyone know of anywhere i can get a reference on how to tie down Modern Tractors on a machinery Flatcar including the chocks and chains?

Does anyone know of a good simple editor out there i could use for updating my club's website?

I've been wanting to post the progress on this layout for sometime but whenever I go over to work on it I forget the camera.... Until this last thursday night. To show a little bit of history on the project without the pictures. We had to cut off about 11 inches off the right side of the...

As you might have seen in previous posts of my Wye modules I had just laid the track and roadbed across the separation point of the two modules then took the dremel and cut them causing a natural insulation gap for my auto reverser. Well after The debuts with the wye in with the other modules i...

Does anyone have a step by step on how they put in a decoder into the older Kato locos. I have 3 SD45s and 1 C30-7 that were made before they started making everything decoder ready and i'm a wee bit intimidated that i'm going to screw up one of these locomotives up when i wire a decoder in...

Why do I have to sign in all the time even though i checked thr auto-sign in :curse: :(

heres how the left side is starting to look like. I took some spackle and started to make the road and area where the gas station will be. The Pavement area is pretty much done in the way of the spackle i just need to build the gas station get the ground painted and lay down the "asphalt" &...

After a month or two of slowly getting the parts and figuring out how I would do it I finally finished re-lighting it with the new golden white LEDs and added a Strobe/beacon light somewhat like the prototype. I still need to add the horn on the fireman's side of the cab but i need to find one...

Anyone out there weather Hot metal cars? If so i'd like to get an idea of how to do it. I have one car that the original owner put together but didnt do the best of jobs so i'm hoping that a little weathering will do it well.

Has anyone created a circuit to make an LED flash? I have been trying to make multivibrator circuits work but all they want to do is stay on constantly. I havent tried using ceramic capacitors instead of Electrolytic. could this be my problem?