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...for those interested, Atlas has got their Forum back online. You have to re-register, but it doesn't take that long, the new format is pretty straight forward and easy to understand, its the same format as that used on 'The Railroad Forum'. Lorne Miller

...ok, here's a question for all the passenger train experts out there, I'm going to be getting a Sunset brass model of the SP&S #700, this is identical to an NP 4-8-4 Northern, in fact these are the steam engines that gave rise to the class name "Northern". Although these locomotives did haul...

...hi guys, now that I've finished figuring out what detailing these new units require, I need to know which decoders to use. Our club is quite partial to NCE, so if anyone out there has any experience installing an NCE decoder into the new Athearn SD50, I would really like to hear from you...

...ok, ok, I know my handle is Espeenut, but I also have a few other favorite roads, and the SP&S is one of them. I just placed my order for an upcoming release from Sunset Limited, the Northern Pacific class A-3, a 4-8-4 in SP&S markings numbered and painted as #700, which still operates and...

Ok, I snagged two Athearn SD50's at the show in Seattle, they were going for a price that made them impossible to pass up, one in Espee and the other in Rio Grande. As you all know the first thing you do, when in a safe place to do so, is open up the boxes and gaze admiringly at your new...

Now that I've had a couple of days to mentally digest all the things I saw at the Seattle National Train Show I thought I'd share a few of my observations with you guys. Being with a display layout that was setting up two days before the show actually started, this gave me a bit of a jump...

...hey guys, I forgot to mention that while I was perusing the Atlas booth at the Seattle show I had a bit of a discussion with the guys from Atlas about the Forum. According to Rob, the forum will be back as they said, although they will be making some changes. I asked if the closure was due...

Hey all, Espeenut here, aka Lorne Miller, if we're all going to try and stick together this looks like a place to stay, I've also joined the "railroad forum.com", there's a lot of old familiar names over there as well, including a brand new member as of this morning, who's last name begins with...