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Definitely a Climax. The Shay is the best known of the geared locomotives, but there are 3 primary styles, Shay (& Willamette), Heisler and Climax. The distinguishing features are the cylinder position and drive line arrangement. Can you read the name on the tender? Also I can't quite make out...

Sometimes new member's posts get caught in our spam filters. We get attacked by spammers 24/7, and routinely have to ban remove several each day. To counter that, we have some automated filters in place. They're not perfect, and sometimes they put a perfectly legit post in the "Hey, better check...

G scale is nice, especially if you have kids, as it's far more forgiving. But just about any scale will work, depending on your needs.

Even if it's not the only option, it may well be the quickest and easiest. So that's a good way to do it if you don't have a better option.

Your phone might have an editing program that can save them as lower resolution for the web. If so, I suggest taking them at full res, but then exporting them at the lower file size. Depends on your phone's options.

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As a test, I would appreciate if somebody would read the instructions here: http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?40595-Uploading-Images-New-Method&p=459979#post459979 and then upload a couple of images. Even if they're not an entry, at the moment I just want to see if it works...

His photos are linked from another site, that's why they seemed to disappear, that site was probably having issues. Meanwhile, I understand some folks are having problems uploading images? What's happening? What errors are you seeing?

I -think- that may have been the trip where some railfan backed over the piping at some interlocking tower, breaking it. They couldn't line a switch or lock a signal or something and everything ground to a halt until it was fixed. Normally we ran pretty close to on time. Our max speed was 40...

So, a bit of googling indicates that they did, at one time, make "Sulky" slotcars, featuring a horse and those little two wheeled racing carts. From the looks of them, if you could find a couple, you could possibly kitbash them into horse and buggies. Or, just use the design concept and make...

You are correct. They didn't extend it, but they did move the back wall in a bit, to create a larger open platform. Lionel just went with what they had on hand I'm guessing. I was on board the train in Morristown, that was one of my favorite stops. After being on display, we went to the...

Horse and buggy races?

There were two sets, one with the GS-4 and 5 cars, and one with a diesel and 4 cars. The steam set sold for quite a bit more. As you mentioned, they go for a premium these days. I'd like to put together a set with the Reading engine, since that's the one I worked on. I have the engine from...

You can easily build your own with a set of rollers like these: http://www.bachrus.com/runningstands.php

He probably thinks it's cool, what an awesome sound system! What the heck, run it until it dies, especially since the other option is to toss it.

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Bachmann's Display is next. Since these shows are designed for the public at large, train sets and rolling stock that kids will enjoy is featured prominently. Thomas the Tank Engine took up a lot of space. They even have a G scale line of Thomas.

Nobody knows the answer for certain. It is very likely that there was no design to it at all. The early railways were experimental, and the equipment was hand built on a "one off" basis. The designed most likely never considered "I'm going to design the standard width for railway carriages...