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Found one of Bil Marsland's LS&W cars while out railfanning.

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Anybody know a good source for Atlas CN Geeps in HO? DC or sound is fine, but I'm looking for narrow cab only. IC or GT patch jobs would be good also. Thanks.

Amtrak Excursion June 18, 2016

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They just released a study an listed the most unsafe crossings in the US. Just to paint the picture, the BNSF mainline runs parallel to Grand Ave. (US60) starting just south of Wickenburg and ending near downtown Phoenix. That's about a 40 mile run, and there are probably two dozen or more crossings there. The study shows that out of the top 13 unsafe crossings, 5 of them are those that cross this track, 3 in Phoenix, 2 in Glendale. This is based on the number of incidents at these crossings. There are about 3 in Sun City that didn't make it high on the list though. We use these frequently and know that these all have room for just one or two vehicles between the tracks and Grand Ave. Anyone trying to squeeze a second car or even not fully pulled though, can and do get wiped out by one of the frequent trains. I'm not sure which came first, the tracks or US60, but it used to be the only route between Phoenix and Los Angeles for both cars and trains.

Just a point to let you all know that our railroads here are still in the news. :wait:

Got a new Badger Sotar 20/20 airbrush on Friday. Unpacked it and did a quick weathering test on a couple of new Accurail boxcars with it. What an awesome airbrush!!!

WPMA-17 had just finished switching at Peter Lumber when I arrived.

Bruce

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Hallo admins,
I have a prpbem since a few days, maybe two or three weeks.
My standard bookmark for Big Blue is saved as search on "View aktive topics" and regulerly I'm not logged in when I use this bookmark for a fast view on new or changed topics. And so Big Blue was working all the times where I’m a member.
Since two or three weeks now I receive with identic conditions the answer “Sorry but you are not permitted to use the search system.” The reason is that I’m not logged in at this moment! After a login the search for active topics works again like all times before. However I would not be constrained to log in in order to see these active topics and I'm not lucky with the system in this present form!
Please let my know if this change is your intention or is this a small bug only together with another change of system?
I would be lucky if the old condition would be installed again, please.
And thanks for your answer!

Has anyone modeled a salvage operation? I've seen numerous photos of work trains taking up the abandoned narrow gauge tracks in Colorado.