I operate on the RPI layout twice a year, and almost every scene on thelayout is taken from the prototype, thanks largely to John Nehrich's outstandingreproductions of prototypical buildings and

Dennis. That is quite likely. As I said “I could very well be wrong.” And I meant that as I often am, especially since joying the “Geezer agers” (Golden Agers? Still waiting for that). The

 Hi Al and List Members, Al wrote: "One modeler complained to another that my ad should have showed the model, not the prototype. It was the model" Indeed, the highest of compliments! Claus

Mark – For about 15 years we willing replaced those castings for urethane at no charge for anyone who requested it. To get the old kits off hobby shop shelves, we notified every shop on out lists

John, If you are addressing my post, I believe you misinterpreted what I said, which was the G-C club layout I was familiar with in high school was torn down in 1974. That date from their web site. I

Thanks Tony. Jerry

I've posted a summary of the recent RPM Chicagoland event on the Resin Car Works blog. Links to galleries and other blog posts covering the event are

Dan and friends, yes the NEB&W was a fictitious railroad, but in addition to the modeled prototype scenes you mentioned, the motive power and rolling stock was based on Rutland and D&H prototypes. It

I just watched an excellent railroad drama: By Whose Hand (1932), which takes place almost entirely on an SP train from LA to SF. It’s a passenger train, so please forgive me. But I’ve never

Denis, I remember the Batavia walk around layout well. I can’t believe it was 1974 that it was torn down though. Of course, I have CRS so I can be very well be wrong but the two times I saw it

Tom Everyone innovates in their own way and I regard you as an innovator -- last night I affixed an S scale version of your dirt collector valve to the K style brake system on 3rd Fowler boxcar in a

Peter, One ready source of smaller quantities of casting supplies is metal casting pattern making suppliers. Freeman is one such but there are others. You can also look for design bureaus and ask them

I think John Armstrong's track plan called "The Flying Horseshoe" in MR about 1953 was the first I'd seen with a sincere, once around,plan with John's then idea's on walk around control. George

Mr. Madden, While I have only a passing interest in resin kits (although I love to see the exquisite results from others), I found your post very interesting and informative! Thank you VERY much for

Thank you Tom. May the ride continue for a long time. If not you, maybe someone else would have come along with the same idea – but it was you, and we appreciate it. The world is full of people

Friends, I seem to remember that Lynn Wescott or maybe Paul Larson first popularized this type of layout. Way back in the very 1960s MR had articles on plug-in walk-around

Dennis and all Although definitely not a "walk around" layout you reminded meof the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT - from their Wikipedia page: "At the club itself, a semi-automatic control system

Walk around layouts go back much further than that. I was a member of the Garfield-Clarendon club in Chicago in the late sixties, and the layout they had been building since 1963 was a large

Tom Madden’s post was and is a class act of achievement on multiple levels, and as Dennis Storzek (no slouch there!) comments, the real innovation comes when a discovery is turned into something

Bill My earliest photo of a car with the USRE "United States" map onthe side is from 1962. The LS&I sold PS-1 box cars to USRE in 1961. And I have a note thatsays Tennessee Central 500-564 were leased