Hi All,

While laying track i had need to hold the flexitrack in place to create an S kink in it whilst the glue set, looking around for a small screw to hold it temporary i came across some servo screws thin 10mm long and with a washer on the head to apply gentle pressure holding the sleeper down.
Once the glue has dried remove and reuse them the hole made in the trackbed is not noticable once covered with ballast later.
About £3.50 for 50 on ebay.

I need to get a paint to match the BNSF red on the ex Santa Fe Units. I cant find a "BNSF Red" in Floquil/Polly Scale or Badger Paints. Anyone ever used a red to match the BNSF red and Silver paint scheme? If ya did, what color red did you use?



thanks in advance

...out of cardboard! LOL!!!

My little girl has been bugging me all weeks that she wants to build a "real" train.


She already wants to build a caboose and a tender (or as she said it a place for the black stuff) for her steamer. We just need to know make it is. What type of loco does this latest build look like to you guys. Tomorrow we are going to paint it and start building the other stuff.

Ok so I need some input, I painted the river bed with acrylic paints and I will be pouring envirotex for the water. Questions are do I need to seal the river base with modge podge or something before the envirotex is poured? I'm thinking if its not sealed and the envirotex hit it that before it has a chance to set the colors may bleed.
Question 2 is I need to put some course sand down along the river banks to simulate the shallows along with some debris , do I need to seal this down before envirotex pour or pour the envirotex right on the sand and logs stones ?

Saw this on the CNJ Bronx Terminal blog.



10% More Heat - 10% Less Ash. I think its quite possible that they were using Gern Flux Fuel Burning Additives to achieve such lofty numbers.


Linky to source page. http://keokukandwesternrr.com/models.htm


Man...I think I need to pick up some of these colourful little box cars. Just rolling works of art.

Hi guys.
This is totally non train related but I have to pass this along. Maybe someone from Arizona will see them.
This was posted on our Samoyed forum this morning. I know if I lost my dog how devastating it would be, and I know that if you don't have a pet you maybe can't understand that.:

Posted by Mary Carlson
On our way to the Scottsdale shows, about 6 pm tonight (Tuesday, February 24)
Ch. Tori and her daughter Margee took off. (We were in the RV fiddling with a
slide-out when we noticed the once shut door was wide open. ) We are about 20
miles west of Flagstaff Arizona on I-40. There are two rest areas within a mile
of where we are. We have driven up and down I-40 and taken literally every dirt
road in the area for hours and hours. They have simply vanished.

I have called the sheriff's department and they have dispatched it to everyone
on patrol tonight.

If anyone is traveling on I-40 please keep your eyes peeled. They are around 45
pounds and white (or were the last time we saw them.)

Tori is wearing a PINK collar with red tag and Margee is wearing a GREEN collar
with red tag. The tags have both our home phone and our cell. They are both
microchipped.


PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CROSSPOST.

Mary Carlson

Thanks Guys
Charlie

I need to get Grab Irons for my BNSF GP38-2 (RTR Unit) and SP SD70M (Genesis Unit). Are they the same size grab irons? There both missing the grabs on the front and rear and i would like to replace them with metal ones and paint them to match but i havent the slightest idea where to get them or how to go about this. Im used to them coming with the loco and applying them on the KATO's lol

Both locos have the wholes pre-drilled so all i would have to do it slip them in place. I would prefer to buy them already bent and ready to install.

Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance

now for the more serious side . I've posted several old mining photos her are two of the modern way to mine called long machine, the machine is in this mine 1500 ft long cuts 8 t0 9 ft high 42 inches wide.
Jim

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just makes me want to go get a bucket or two . how bout you?
Jim

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The title may have thrown some of you off, this thread wont we be for Weathered Freight Car trucks, rather for Big Trucks like semis and such

Ill do one post per company, so that means when i weather a trailer and or cab for a company that has previously been posted, ill come back and edit that post and add the new truck in there and post an update to the posts that were updated with new pictures..... This should be fun and a long term project for me