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I only dabble in On30. I have attempted (and failed) an On30 flat car. I have started (yet to be finnished) 3 log cars (the kind that is basicly 3 poles, couplers, and trucks) A water tower I made years ago for my old HO scale layout. That water tower looks kind of like an O scale narrow gauge...

I have been interested in European model trains for a while. I am planning a small, portable, European N scale rail road. The two problems I ran into are a. I don't know where I can get EUropean engines & cars b. If I scratch build or kit-bash, How can I easly create the buffers. Now, I don't...

the other day, I picked up a Garden Railways magizine, found an article on how some guy took an HLW "Woodie", and changed it to R/C. Well, I wasn't thinking "Garden Railroad" while reading this article, I was thinking "Can that be done in On30?". After I finnished the article, I drew some rough...

Hey! I just went on Google Video, and found a video with a brief veiw of a railroad I might be able to build someday. Right now I don't have the space, or money for it . I may have just enough skill for it but I don't know. Basicly, it is a loop with an enginehouse siding, a spur for extra cars...

I think, since I will be moving in a few years, and have no layout, I might go T-Trak. If I do a home layout, I would just have to dismantal it when I just got started on scenery(my favorite part.) So, with T-Trak I don't have to do much woodwork, or heavy lifting, I can do scenery on a day off...

I get lot's of big ideas. sometimes they're BIG ideas for small projects. In this case it's a microlayout in On30. Basicly a loop, with a siding. Here's the catch: All the track is to be hand laid. all the rolling stock is to be scratchbuilt. the engine is to be a kitbashed HO engine(turned into...

I just bought an HO scale yard office from AM Models for $5.35 (theyr'e web site is: http://www.tomarindustries.com/am.htm This is kit number 103. This weekend I am going to a train show in Stevens Point. I figure since I go there with a club, I could build the kit at the layout. I plan on...

This is a newer scale/gauge. It is Gn15. Gn15 is 1:22.5 trains that run on HO track. I only just heard about it a few months ago but found three web sites on it: www.Gn15.info www.carendt.com www.iholmes.com If you have any comments, pease submit the in this thread. Thank You...

Do you know of a website that gives lots of model railroad blueprints? What magazeen gives the best blueprints. And the types i'm talking about are of anything railroad related. Pleases & Thank yous TGR

I just looked through my bachmann catolog, and found that in On30 the 4-4-0 is more expensive than the Shay! N scale section:4-4-0 second most expensive (first being a 4-8-4) 1:20.3: Third most expensive engine (1st being the K-27, 2nd being the three truck shay) By $50.00! Seeing this makes...

I love steamers, but there are very few affordable engines out there. I go to most of the train shows in the area, find some good deals, but the best steam engines I have found, at a decent price, are by bachmann. I have a 0-4-0T and an 0-6-0T by unkown manufacturers. One looks almost...

Can anyone give me info & links about T-Trak? I just heard about it on this site a few days ago when I was looking for info on N scale traction. I want to do the alternate curves. The ONE site I know about this is: www.T-Trak.org I want more ideas for how to build a T-Trak loop (with set up &...

I get a lot of big ideas(some are big plans of something small) and this is one of them. I have wanted to make a portable layout (like in a briefcase, or a shoe box) But never have the money for Z-scale. Anyway, I thought of a good way to do it in N. It would go inside an inexpensive briefcase...

Advice? I have been a model railroader my whole life. I have built N scale, HO scale, and LEGO, and tried an HOn3 railroad (The HOn3 attempt was badly done. a total failure.) But then a few years ago I discovered On30 at a train show in Millwaukee, WI. I saw a static display I had seen before...