Does anyone here use our chat room anymore? Let me go check.......... uh, NO, one post there this year and it didn't belong, a few last year and gee, nobody is really chatting anymore, at least not like the old days. There was a time with our old chat room, that there was a specific time that we got together and just talked about anything. Anyone got any ideas to get things going again? We can do a few things, one is when we make changes to Big Blue, get an improved chat room that might attract some, or we can just do away with it if there's no interest. Packey says that the new software could include a choice of some better chat rooms than what we have now, but we need to know if it's worth his time to implement one....

Anyone got any thoughts on the subject??????

Hey Kids,

I've got a stack of a couple dozen magazines free to a good home.

Mostly Continental Modeller Magazine

Prefer to give them to someone in or near Toronto, Ontario, Canada so you can pick them up or I can drop them off without dealing with postage.



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Hi all.
On the Walthers 90' turntable, there is a "no track" area on the diagram. My question is can there be any overlap into this area with say even a few millimetres of the edge of one track, or does it completely have to be outside the shaded area? Thanks for your help.

Brent

I'm curious to know when ditch lights started to become implemented. I have a Conrail GP38-2 that'll be modeled after a prototype around 1995-98. The most recent picture I've seen of the prototype is in 1993 without ditch lights. I know there's always an exception to the rule with everything we come across with model trains but I would like to narrow it down. I'm leaning more towards installing them.

Not a large thing, rather small details.



Rather smaller details - oil lamps for my current caboose project.
Some more pictures on my website.

A friend has one of these and is trying to remove the shell. He can get the rear loose but not the front and there is no instruction on how to do this in the paper work. Can anyone help?

I am looking for a copy of the August 2001 Mainline Modeler magazine. If anyone has a copy they wish to part with let me know.

I would also be interested in a scan of an article from the above issue. The article is about building EMD hood sides using Cannon & Company parts.

WR

I've had this spot on my layout that was in need of a structure for some time now:

It's tucked quite a ways back (about 4 feet) from the front.

And I've had this DPM kit stuck in my inventory for awhile as well:

the only problem is that the kit has three dock doors on one side, and one dock door and a roll-up garage door on the other side. That and the structure is a bit long so I might have to cut the one-storey part off to make it fit a bit better. Here's a few options for fitting it in the space allowed:





I'd rather it be positioned with the one dock door and the garage door facing the front of the layout, probably with the one storey removed. I guess this is the problem when you have most of your buildings down and you have to fit the rest for the real-estate remaining.

Last year in the Fall I started the new downsized layout, the previous layout was too big and overwhelming. I hope to do some nice scenery with lots of bridges and a couple of water scenes. Most of my old rather large structures were given away locally as I found they just weren't doing the old layout any justice and so I will be spending the next probably couple years building new smaller structures.
So to start this is the track plan, and upto date construction, I just did a session with the backdrop painting


A few pics of the backdrop painting around the layout