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Where do you get your golden white LEDs from? I can only find a couple of suppliers and was wondering where else to look. Does anyone use them?

The DIY channel is running a series on model railroading it's a five show series, but what the heck. It airs on Saturdays at 8:30pm and 11:30pm Eastern. More info http://www.diynet.com/diy/episode_archive/0,2019,DIY_14294_282,00.html

Someone sent this to me. It's so true it hurts. Physical Laws of Model Railroading Compiled by Matt Conrad First Law of Model Railroads: The track plan always expands to completely fill the available space. Second Law of Model Railroads: The number of stalls and derailments is...

May 2005 Model RR Photo of the Month The Topic is: YOUR WORKBENCH This month is going to be a little different. We’ve seen all the great models and scenery, well it has to be built somewhere. So this month, show us your workbench. After all winter of getting behind in a bunch of...

April 2005 Model RR Photo of the Month The Topic is: ENGINE TERMINALS This month, let’s look at the activity around the engine terminal. Roundhouses, turntables, transfer tables (I’d love to see someone who has modeled one), fueling facilities, even dead lines. Every layout has...

Congratulations to Swissengineer for winning the January contest "Peeps". Take a break

March 2005 Model RR Photo of the Month The Topic is: OUT OF THE BOX We’re not thinking out of the box, we’re talking right out of the box. This is the opposite of last months contest. Show us that locomotive that except for weathering and minor painting, you thought was good enough to...

February 2005 Model RR Photo of the Month The Topic is: KITBASH For February, let’s see some kitbashed stuff. Locomotives, rolling stock, buildings. Anything that started life as a one thing, but the manufacturer wouldn’t recognize it now if they saw it. Show us what all that cutting...

I finally found a place to get at least a chase the caboose kind of layout in my apartment. The only problem is that it will end up as a dual scale layout HO and N. So with all the constraints, if I want to do anything other than an oval within an oval, I might end up needing a diamond that is N...

January 2005 Model RR Photo of the Month The Topic is: PEEPS The topic this month are PEEPS. No, not those kind of peeps, but the people who inhabit your layout. OK, I’ve spent too much time watching my daughter play Roller Coaster Tycoon, so you can blame her for the topic name as...

December 2004 Model RR Photo of the Month The Topic is: THE CABOOSE Remember when you were a kid and the next best thing to being the engineer would be to ride high in the cupola of a caboose? Sitting there watching your train snake ahead of you, watching the scenery go by and waving...

November 2004 Model RR Photo of the Month The Topic is: POWER This month let’s see power. A thundering heard of locomotives. A massive lash up that makes the power pack glow in the dark, pulls every car you own and can still pull the wallpaper off the wall, and if they had smoke units...

I just saw a post in another discussion group that Bowser has bought Stewart. Has anyone else heard this?

October 2004 Model RR Photo of the Month The Topic is: UNIT TRAINS Everyone has at least one unit train they run. Whether it's a coal drag, a bunch of ore jennies, road railers or stack train, most of us has some type of train that could be classified as a unit train. And for this contest...

I dug up a shot to enter this month, so now it's your turn. Somebody post something better and knock me out of the running. Remember it doesn't have to be your model or layout, but it does have to be your picture. Any unusal detail will work. And by unusual, I mean something other than the...

I've known about this for a couple of weeks and couldn't say anything, but since it's up on his web site now. http://www.mthhotrains.com/default.asp

Well unless everyone is going to wait until the last minute to enter, this months theme for the model contest is going over like a lead balloon. So how about some ideas from you guys. What kind of contests would you like to see?

I was raised on Kadee couplers. So far I haven’t been impressed by the plastic look alikes. Does anybody use them? Does anybody prefer them? Why? And speaking of why. Why is the universal #5 Kadee an all metal coupler when everything else they make is plastic? I have to special order the 40...

It's been a long time since I touched an airbrush and back then it was just Bowser boilers and Hobbytown shells that didn't move. After chasing a couple of parts across the table and halfway across the floor until I ran out of airhose, it started me wondering. How do you secure your pieces parts...

OK. For us stuck in DC folks, what's a booster and what's the difference between the main and a programming track?