Short video of rough track. It must be universal, Mom showing the Kids the trains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiQ1LDDUm6I

I live in Northern California (Pacific Grove) and am looking for some help with track laying and wiring of a new garden railroad at my home. Is anyone available to consult with me on assistance (for a fee of course) in the near future? If so, please email me below so we can discuss offline more. [email protected]   Thank you,   Ed Rodriguez  

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I will admit that, until now, I have shown no ability to keep plants alive (I once killed a cactus by underwatering it, for example). Given that the Durango & Jasper is meant to be a garden railroad, this clearly needs to change.   Starting from such a stunning position of ignorance, I've decided to take advantage of a lucky coincidence and hire Nancy Norris, the gardening editor for Garden Railway magazine, to plan, install, and teach me about these living things that I will be nurtu...

The Carlyle train show was cancelled, so my buddy Scott said let's meet up at Robby's and run trains that Friday. The weather was warm enough, but the wind was brutal. I made a few laps around the inner loop and through the new yard before my train was blown over. Even while putting it back on the tracks, the wind was too much and knocked it back over. Scott had one of his RHB cars blown off the layout and onto the ground. So, we packed our stuff up and went inside to hang out with Robby for the...

Hey folks  I thought I'd get a conversation going about waybills. I've been unable to find a good tutorial on how exactly to set up two- or four-position waybills.  Every page I've found so far basically says "Now fill in your waybills with the desired car routing," but not what that means exactly.  I'm assuming some giant table of all your industries and in/out cars?  Are there any Excel, or other, tools that assist with figuring out routing? (I've been unable to find any)

It's probably been 2 months since I've used JMRI to create a switch list. During that time, no thanks to LSC & Facebook, I have acquired quite a few more cars.  Being a mostly rainy day today, I wanted to run a train on the indoor division. JMRI refused to build a train with more than one car. A quick look at the build logs showed why: There is only one open car spot at each end of the railroad. JMRI has tons of cars wanting to move, but no where to put them!   So, it's time to a...

I want to grease this LGB Loco but can't tell if the numerous screws on the bottom actually hold a bottom plate or the whole motor block.  Does anyone have the diagram? LGB #22130 Waimanalo Olomana Steam Loco

My new shelf layout is underway, it is 22ft. long and from 2-3ft. wide as the pics will show. I will be a switching scene of the old Ft. Worth Stock Yards back in the late 1940's to the early 1950's. I will be running mainly diesel engines, but I do have two LGB Moguls that have been redone to my railroad theme, the Fort Worth & South-Western, which I may use at times. All power will have RailPro installed and will be battery powered, this way I have left myself an opening for outside runnin...

The Bachmann G gauge Switch Stand #94648 was very much to my surprise very nice looking and works with smooth operation. I thought the scale would be way off, but it does look fine on my somewhat standoff scale shelf switching layout. The video does make it look bigger then it appears in real like.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFIvvKHlXME  I intend to put switch lamps on some of then and wire them with LED's for a more life looking appearance. I realize these may not work for ...

Following the examples of many people I respect, I am going to start keep a written log of our move and the rebuilding of the headquarters of the KVRwy, here. Those of you that have been at our house in Carlyle and at Train Shows like the East Coast Large Scale Train Show each Spring, know that the "Timesaver" and "Inglenook" switching puzzles, that were part of the basement division of the old KVRwy are and have always been my "retirement railroad".  Well Jan and I "officailly retired" De...

Hello,   I have about 150" +/- of new stainless steel rail, Code 332 and a double rail bender also brand new from Aristo Craft foe sale. I'm located in northern California. Please contact me below if interested:   Ed Rodriguez (209) 992-1272 [email protected] Thanks!

3 January, 2021  - Ridge Live Steamers, Dundee, Florida . And we start a New Year with Car Card / Waybill Operations here at the Ridge Live Steamers on January 1 -3, 2021.  Ran the passenger train to the hourly schedule, yesterday (Saturday).  Early runs today are annulled do to rain, but traffic should pick up as the weather moves through this afternoon.  We start putting  the 116 pieces of rolliong stock away at 2 pm.   Jan was the Conductor and Bo provided Secu...