Bluford Shops has announced a new series of “dented” gondolas. They are making 6 Frisco cars available - 2 lightly dented, 2 medium dented and 2...
Lowell has posted two more sleepers for the Texas Special, “Amon B King”, a Katy car, and “Thomas Hart Benton”, a Frisco car. Only available as...
New arrivals from RailSmith today. The Meteor’s Normandy and the Katy Texas Special RPO Anson B Jones. I also picked up the SP&S version of the...
I actually forgot about these until I started seeing them online.
I have been wanting to replicate this train since I first saw Karl’s photographs. With Intermountain finally releasing their Mandarin orange and...
Well, after years of waiting, my Orange and White F units finally arrived while I was away for Christmas. I am impressed that the coonskin logos...
So some more info related to this train. The web site utahrails.com has a page on the UP cars sold to Ringling and it includes the following...
I have not had any issues with mine. I also had a pre-release beta system for a while, and it also worked fine. Paul
The Afton to Tulsa panel also had a few take siding indicators. This panel has yet another variation of the controls....
There were also a bunch of take and leave siding indicators between Springfield and Thayer....
Here’s a panel that has a more traditional US&S plate for a take siding indicator on a siding between Stoutland and Sleeper....
Here are a couple of sections of that Narco-Amory CTC panel. The first one is a couple of the take siding controls that are on either side of...
I’d love to get better pictures of one of these plates.
It says “TAKE” on one side, but centered above the switch it says “SIDING”. There is another one on the site that has both “TAKE” and “LEAVE” on...
Incidentally, there are a couple of other panels on the rr signal.com site that have take siding controls. They all have the differing...
So I was thinking about the take siding indicators again, and I wondered what the controls looked like on the CTC panel? rrsignal.com actually...
So apparently, this car was actually released at the National Train Show. And I missed it when I was talking to Lowell. I put in my order, but...
Lowell snuck in another river series car for the Meteor. This time it is Meramec River...
So while talking to Lowell about new announcements ( see...
I talked to Intermountain at the National Train show today. The Mandarin orange and white N scale Frisco units are just about ready to leave...
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