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Curious, how many of you have purchased the KATO FEF-3 steamer? Please sound off with:

How many you've purchased
How long you've had them
How often you run them, and approximate hours on each...

What's new with the P-Line? Well, a lot, and not so much.

I re-arranged the whole train room for winter. The train room isn't very big...it's about 12x12 at max. It functions as a bedroom,...

Ralph, you could do far worse than use that design in the Popular Mechanics. I wouldn't go with the track plan, it's not the greatest...but the hinged 4x8 thing worked well. The only drawback is...

This is the layout my father built for me when I was 8.

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That's exactly what I used. I have 1/2" plywood sitting on a frame of 1 x 4's, but mine is a table on wheels. Mostly in your case the wood would be to keep the foam from cracking in half or...

I'd still go with some form of plywood under the foam. You could get away with something thin, like 1/4".

It might help if you get out a sharpie and figure out where your streets and such would go, and then look at how you'd get to the industries on them via rail. The branches would be built to get to...

Welcoming Consolidated 2-8-0 #450. That makes three of these great locos. Frankly, I've had better luck with the Spectrum Consolidated than I have with any other loco. That includes Kato. A...

Check the For Sale area. :D

I know that the standard procedure has been to paint items FIRST and then assemble, but I've found that you don't have to worry much about warpage of pieces if you paint AFTER you assemble. Of...

I agree with a load as a splice plate. I'd use a very thin and runny super glue in the 'crack'. Any thick glue is going to make the end product very noticeable. No glue in the crack at all would...

Try and buy would be GREAT for us, but I don't know how good it would be for retailers...I fear that they -- being in the middle -- will be the ones left holding the bag. The return ratio would...

Did some minor stuff -- blackened the inside of the fire pit at Fish Camp, and scratch built a dock for the lake out of scrap materials from laser cut projects. Started building a laser-cut...

Clever! Nicely done.

I have a thing about jewel cases, be it for cassettes, CD's, trains or anything. I repurpose all mine as recycling material. :D

And, because the allure of models that Bachmann offers that no one else does -- because they're all too busy making Daylights and Big Boys and F7's, apparently -- is sometimes stronger than one's...

Well, that's probably why they went out of business.

If anyone is interested in this, I will be listing it for my friend in the For Sale soon, with what I am pretty sure is all of the needed Atlas...

It would seem that, over time and sitting, the spring under the front set of pilot wheels becomes weak and compressed, causing the front set of wheels to derail much more easily. Part of it is...

I'll advise my friend that she can expect $50 on the low side and $100 on the high side. Thanks.

My 'narrative' was respectful and polite. Your response was not. My 'narrative' also had no expectations, other than perhaps the sort of common courtesy and camraderie that *most* folks here...

Well, there's one rather snotty response. I'm just trying to ascertain value on the used market, I'm not promoting it, nor do I think that my friend is going to retire off the proceeds of the sale...

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Working on that, but consider it all like new, unused.

Hi all, resurrecting this old thread to pose a question... I have an acquaintance who has the Smoky Hollow layout shell, most if not all of the Atlas track to complete it, a power pack and probably...

The Wisconsin Central was very profitable on these same lines. CN is greedy. It's not that they wouldn't make money, they wouldn't make *enough* money and/or aren't willing to work harder in these...

It's my understanding that CN isn't allowing short lines to take up the business...it's their sandbox, and if they aren't going to play in it, no one can.