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I'm planning on installing some crossing signals on my layout, but I want to seek some advice first. Who here has installed them, which brands, and what advice would you have based on experience? I really like the very prototypical look of the Details West sets, but they don't seem to be...

Where can one find bulk rail for G or G-ish scale? Commercial track is limiting and spendy as all get out, there's gotta be a better way. Metal supply firms? Something? Also, where can one find frogs, and spikes?

In the latest installment of "as the railroad turns...." The move which prevented the construction of the Tualatin Electric, (version 5.7,) looks as if it will prevent me from a layout of any kind. My new place is an apartment with very limited space and equally limited ability to attach...

Face it, no matter what you do, there's always *some* engine you can't model except by using an Athearn bluebox. Nothing wrong with that, but after living with Atlas models, I'm spoiled. So long story short, I want to model a modern switcher like an SW1500. What can be done to an Athearn...

So as the Santa Day approaches, what have you got on your modeling Christmas list? I doubt I'll be getting anything for Christmas related to modeling, as my active days in the hobby are undergoing a finance related hibernation period. However, if I were still as active as I was, I'd be...

Not sure where else to post this, so into the ANPL it goes... Due to circumstances beyond my control, my space is about to squeeze so far down that I won't have room for a layout anymore, much less a lot of time to work on one. At the same time, I don't want to completely exit the hobby...

What clubs are you a member of/have you belonged to, and how did they work? I've been a member or affiliated member of at least two model railroad clubs over the years, but none held my interest that much. As none of them are particularly close to me either, I've been considering whether...

Here's the biggun. What are you modeling, and why? For me, I have a remnant of a previous layout, but no genuine operational one right now. However, my focus for my car and locomotive fleet is split between two eras in the same general region. One is the Oregon Electric, a subsidiary of...

Now on eBay: http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=route99west&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50 A sample:

Eventually, your cars grow so large in number they threaten to bury you. And you start buying everything that you can afford under the sun you like or that you think is cool without thought to whether it fits your focus. Great for the hobby shops or eBay, but your wallet hits the wall and youa...

These might come in handy for keeping track of your fleet, as well as using on your switch lists: Class "F" FLAT CAR TYPE "FA" -- Flat car specifically equipped with superstructure or containers for transporting set-up vehicles, not suitable for miscellaneous commodities (7/91-4/99)...