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I have them at most grade crossing, and several in places where derailments are difficult to access. As far as uncoupling ramps are...

Something unusual would be a ten-coupled (2-10-0, 2-10-2 or 2-10-4) that would negotiate 18-inch radius curves, with the center drivers...

Model railroad curves are generally much sharper than the prototype. Although wider curves are always desirable, Atlas Snaptrack curves...

If Hershey and his wife hadn't gotten delayed, they'd have been on the Titanic. Then no Hershey bars!

Golden Gate Bridge and major highways in New York blocked by pro-Palestinian protesters! On the Bridge, people trapped in their cars...

Those old Athearn blue box PA's were pretty good. Before other manufacturers brought out EMD E-7's, I took the bodies from older...

Most of the end-cab switchers with 4-axle trucks should work fine on 15" radius curves if you don't try to run them too fast. (Prototype...

Sadly, when Caboose moved from Broadway to Lakewood, Colorado, the pandemic plus lack of variety of inventory sealed their fate! Other...

One factor as to whether you run steam or diesel or both has to do with what era a modeler runs on a layout. Many of us model the...

The only problem I have ever encountered with Peco turnouts is one case where wheels would sometimes pick the frog. Solved it by placing...

I wonder if a NWSL Stanton drive could be installed as one or both tender trucks? Some prototype steam locomotives had booster units...

It depends on your era. As a kid, I rode the original Zephyr 9900 (now in Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry), so I had very little...

Just exactly the kind of senator...and person...Joe Lieberman WASN'T! RIP!

Apparently complications from a fall! Be careful our there! Falls can do a number on seniors especially! RIP Joe Lieberman.

Since the gears in the trucks are locked into the worms you can't move the whole thing with the gear units in place on the top of the...