Yearly Archives: 2013

Ok, screw the budget, let’s make this the $750 layout…I just picked up a Traincat Southern Pacific C -30-6 caboose kit. This kit is a brass kit that is just about perfect. I already know the correct interior color, I just need to figure out what number to build. The […]

Got a new project. ..

December 14, 2013 in locals by John

I was looking at Google Maps and I found a simple group of tracks. They appear to be a mix of a pair of popular model railroad switching puzzles. If you look closely, it is the three sidings of an Inglenook and the switchback of a Timesaver. This could be […]

Found a possible prototype for the extension

December 1, 2013 in Details / local / Track Plans tagged prototype by John

Today, I went to a local train swapmeet with Terry, and came across an Atlas 33,000 tank car that was released in 1999. Atlas had Roco build a simular car released in 1967….I got the new one today for $5, and have had a pair of the old “Warren” cars […]

sometimes it pays to be frugal…

November 23, 2013 in Uncategorized by John

So I have an odd distance from the front of my layout to the closest siding, and I was thinking that a long, narrow warehouse would fit in real well. I was thinking about making it a sale 50 feet wide, 200 feet long, and have three car spots, with […]

thinking about trying my hand at scratchbuilding…..

November 17, 2013 in Uncategorized by John

Yesterday morning, I met Terry, the owner of Ohkwari Sales, an E-Bay store. He is also here in Central AZ, and close enough to the UP main that we watched a pair of GP40’s (including a HLGX Rent-A-Wreck) switching from his yard. Terry is modeling the now underwater Rio Grande […]

How do I convince the wife….

November 12, 2013 in Uncategorized by John

Well guys, today for gits and shiggles, I took 16 freight cars, a loco and a caboose on my 86″ long layout and pulled the train a whopping 8 inches before I ran out of track. I have decided to use the pair of #6 switches and the flex track […]

thinking about an addon….

November 4, 2013 in Uncategorized by John

Modeling the Pacific Electric in N Scale