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To find Steel Rails to the Sunrise, just check on ebay. There's one for sale right now: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4132&item=2269816772&rd=1 Has anyone checked out the site http://www.emachineshop.com ??? It allows you to design virtually anything and have it ...

Hey! Yo! Me! Me! I can run the 39! Pick me! Please!

Well, at least I did take the "Your hand on the throttle" class at the Valley Railroad in Essex, Connecticut (and yes, it was definitely a great time!)

http://www.valleyrr.com/

Good stuff scrag104 One thing to add.. make sure the soldering iron is a big enough iron. While low wattage is good for electronics, the goal here is to get the spot where you want to solder hot as fast as you can to prevent spreading heat into the surrounding area. Small, low wattage irons tend to ...

Oops... I knew that! I tend to refer to P-54 as the generic catch-all. Sorry for the confusion.

Ah, the other car... I was just at the New York State Fair today and took a few shots around the train exhibit. Here are a couple shots: The P-54: http://pasquale.dhs.org/images/P54_1148_SyracuseNY.JPG The GG-1: http://pasquale.dhs.org/images/GG-1_4933_SyracuseNY.JPG The P-72s are located at a diffe...

Can someone fill in more detail about the kits? Are they about the same skill/effort as Hobbytown of Boston? Is it an issue of doing some filing and cleanup, or is there a lot of drilling, cutting, etc. involved. Ar the drives geared or do they use drive belts like mentioned earlier? I'd really like...

From the website,they appear to have five LIRR coaches: P-72 Coach - LIRR #2910 P-72 Coach - LIRR #2947 P-72 Coach - LIRR #2973 P-72 Coach - RHSX #603 (ex LIRR 2977) MP-54A1 EMU Coach - LIRR #1149 So, I imagine the four P-72s are for sale. See http://www.rrhistorical-2.com/cnynrhs/roster/cnypass.html

Checkout http://www.lalrr.com/ for some photos, etc. about the railroad

Here's the 400 when it was at Valley Railroad in late fall 2002 when a couple of us took
the "Your Hand on the Throttle" class (quite cool!)

The way I heard it, the Pennsy position lights were always considered safer than color lights for several reasons: 1) They indicate properly even to someone who is color blind 2) The yellow light penetrates fog better than other colors, so it can be seen at a further distance 3) Failure of one bulb ...

Probably should be a separate topic, but... has anyone used inkjet decal paper? Would seem you could produce a ton of decals, given a decent original image.

"However, in flipping to the last pages of each issue, I noticed that the 2004 issue has 130 pages, while the 1989 issue has 240 pages... a difference of 110 pages! " Not trying to defend MR, but.. the 1989 issue was the December issue which is always significantly bigger than other months...

Don't forget to visit the Valley Railroad in Essex CT (just down the road from Mystic). One neat thing they offer is "Your hand on the throttle" - a one hour class on steam locomotive operation followed by each (of four students to a class) student taking one hour in a real steam engine (I...

Anyone have more info about the accident this morning where an Amtrak train hit a parked LIRR train in Penn Station track 14? See: http://us.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/04/ ... index.html

Looks like no one was seriously hurt.

Shot this last week at Hunterspoint Ave.