My advice over the years has never changed. If you want a historical society, make it so. The no. 1 management task is to assign action to the...
No secrets - just buy track plan books, envision your space, and twist good plans to fit the space. These three were all published in MR's 102...
Here is design no. 5 based on a smaller plan published by MR April 2007. You Bootheel-area modelers should like it. There are some tough grades...
Yes, that would improve operations to include much more staging. 14x20 is turning out to be a very nice HO layout size. We should have had the...
Here is the latest track plan. It's based on a C&O layout published years ago. A tremendous amount of HO railroad will fit my 14x20 space! This...
We all love the Gruesome Casket kit. I built two furniture factories for a new branch line of the Knoxville club's HO layout. I used that kit for...
Love RS-1 101. Doug
Paul, thanks for the call. I can view the attached photos but not your two track plans. I was sitting in my 14x20' store room at the time of...
I found this letter from R. L. Coulter in my files. The second page stated: "Metal-sided cabooses were purchased and built account high...
I found these two photos, from the June 1973 FMIG meeting in Springfield (photographer unknown), in my files yesterday. Doug [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Have HO models of 109 and the Hallmark caboose.
Link to the All Aboard article, pp. 4-5 of: https://thelibrary.org/lochist/frisco/allaboard/Optimized/1989_5_v3_12.pdf
Chris, for an ops type, there's always another small industry that can be added to the railroad as a traffic generator. This plan would work...
As I'm nearing the end of the road (hospice), I've decided to try some track planning for our 14x20' store room. The layout won't get built, but...
Was it 4422? If so, it's listed on eBay again at a very high price....
I've still got my Vibroplex Champion bug (1957). They were still being manufactured by Vibroplex here in Knoxville last time I checked.
Both B9 and Bmaj9 sound great. Does anyone still have the X2200 South issues about horns and chord choice for checking. It was decades ago...
Those notes are the B 9th. B major 9 is B, D#, F#, A#, C#.
Attached is an update that includes change in ownership of HO 4-4-0 Number 186.
186 has been sold.
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