SteveS

Thanks for all the help guys. I ordered a park side open wagon kit thru Antics. Now just waiting for it to arrive in the post

Hi John Thanks for the input. I just recently received my new number plates a few days ago. I do enjoy kit building bu.t just wanted to get a bit of info before I got a couple of the, Steve

Hello All I would like to purchase some of the Peco and Parkside open wagons for loading coal etc....I know they are in kit form, but I would like to know do they go together fairly easy or are there any issues with these kits. Right now I have 2 Dapol 7 plank wagons along with a Minerva Models Pannier tank engine. I'm working on a layout to run this stuff. more on the layout a bit later. Thanks Steve

Hello Everyone, Can you point this yank in the right direction? I'm working on a British O scale layout. it's 16 inches wide by 12 feet long. I want to add a sector plate at one end of the layout. while I've seen them am not really sure how to go about building one. thanks for any help. Steve

I used to work in US Steel's Gary Indiana works many years ago. There wasn't any type of track singalling like you would see at trackside. What I did see were red/grren lights that allowed you to enter a building ,blast furnace, etc....Level crossings used conventional type flashers and lights, no gates in certain area of the mill.

one that comes to my mind is Rochelle, Illinois, when the BNSF Chicago-Twin Cities and UP's former CN&W Chicago-Omaha Mainline. Steve

Thank you for the welcome. Right at my home I have an HO scale layout based on a freelance midwest shortline in the 50's or 60's. I work with 2 rail O scale as a friends house. He has what I can call a museum size layout in his cellar. There are about 5 different levels. He has staging hung from the floor joists at the high end and at the low end he has staging about 2 feet off the floor. Yes he has a rather large home covering his layout. I've dabbled in N, HO, OO, O 2 rail. Yes you are right about 3 rail O scale in the USA. I think a lot of it is due to a lot of the "older generation" who got their start in model trains with 3 rail O scale. Steve

Hello everyone I had a friend of mine in the UK tell me about this website. While I still model US prototype in both HO and O scale, I had the pleasure to visit one of his friends British O scale layout and had quite an enjoyable afternoon operating his friends layout. But what impressed me was Minerva Models Pannier tank engine with its sound and DCC and how well it ran right our of the box. So much so I ended up buying one. I am now working on a British O scale layout of my own. Anyhow I live in the Chicago area and am a retired Driver (Locomotive Engineer in USA terms) I have no problems wanting to share what ever knowledge that anyone in this group wants to know. Hello to all Steve