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Here are some old B&W photo's that I took in 1954 or thereabouts. My first venture into railfanning with my new cheapy 35mm camera. Please, will someone delete this thread. I have been attempting to add photo's for over an hour. I cannot go to "advanced" I cannot edit the post to delete it...

Here are some photo's of an MRL equipment train, shortly after reloading, near Polson, MT. A big change from the days of hand spiking rail and the crew being housed on site in old passenger cars. Everybody but the engineer went home by highway. Taken from a public road by old tech 300 mm lens...

Today (9/16) I purchased a stock car kit a local train show. Speciffically an Athearn stock car, NP railroad. The underside of the car is black plastic and the car weight is exposed bare metal. Does anyone have info on the prototype colors used on NP freight cars? Possibly they were the same...

While browsing through a June 1994 issue of Model Railroader magazine I came across several letters to the editor concerning "guess who". It seems that Thomas had been given a cover picture the previous month and everybody was up in arms about putting him on the cover of a scale model...

Did anyone notice that we are losing Model Railroading Magazine and Fine Scale Railroader Magazines? Both are stopping printing. Railroad Model Craftsman will fill out Model Railroading's subscriptions and do their On30 annual. Fine Scale Railroader will continue with their annual speciality...

Just heard via the family grapevine that there is a derailment in Missoula, MT. Son-in-law is getting lots of weekend overtime. No details.

I'm doing some scenery details around my engine house and along the logging right-of-way. Specifically some rusty rail in a pile and individual pieces dumped on the edge of the track. How long would a section of 56 pound rail be? Jim Krause

While rummaging through some boxes in my shop (aka storage shed) I came across a long lost book of HO scale, cutout buildings. I don't know if its still available but I will post the title and publisher because there has been some discussion on other threads about how to keep the cost of...

We are not the most active bunch of folks here on "The gauge". I've got an excuse, I'm old. Maybe your Shay ran away and ended up in the swamp or a tree fell on you.sign1 As for me, I'm plugging along with my logging diorama. I have all of the rail down, the trestles are in, No power to the...

I submitted this question in the Narrow Gauge forum and maybe I should have been here instead. I'm wondering if any of you folks have had experience with On30 modules in the free mo system? If so, have any standards been established for On30 modules. I looked up free mo on the internet but...

Has anyone become involved with the Free Mo modules yet? I'm interested in finding out about any standards that may have been established for On30 modules. I know that HO, O and N scale standards are in effect.

Several months ago I came across a web site that advertised both O and HO kits for logging bigwheels. Now I can't find it. They were diecast models if I remember correctly. Anybody have info?