Present, The wife had her oral surgery yesterday and it went very well done. She slept quite a while after the surgery. Today she is up with a list of things for me to do. Go figure. :-o :-o :-o So-o-o, here is my picture for the day and then I have to start my digging. i have a water line to for th...

Morning All, Another beautiful day here in the desert. Off to stretch class this morning and then taking the wife in for oral surgery. Been there, got the T shirt. Two hours in the chair is not fun. Actually, i think that i set the record in his chair - four hours. no pain - no gain. With the wife d...

Raymo,

Here is what is what the cars look like with license plates.

Frank / Erieman

Raymo, You probably already have covered this, but I thought that you might be interested in something i have been adding to my Sylvan cars and trucks - License plates. I have had a habit of collecting articles from all the train magazines and ran across the license plate article in model railroadin...

Somewhere it must have been mentioned that I was sick or under the weather. I haven't even had a hangover in forever. I feel great, especially since the convention is over. Something prompted these: Morning everyone, Hope that everyone has a great day. Runner, glad to hear that you are feeling bett...

Ray, Thanks for all the wonderful ideas. I have built the same truck, but did not know about the material that you use for the windows. Now that i have successfully used the " Gallery Glass" for the windows, I am going back to all the Sylvan vehicles and others to put in the windows. It re...

Morning everyone, Lots of folks up early posting. I was a bit of a sleepyhead this morning. spent some time in the train room yesterday designing a new classification yard and initial concepts for the steel mill. Today, not so much. The boss wants some huge pots planted, and i do mean huge. Got to k...

Morning All, Still upset about Floquil's decision. Went out yesterday to get some of the Pactra trim tape. Fortunately I found one of the local hoby shps that still had the colors that I need. This is great material for making control panels. As a former Oklahoma resident, I feel sorry for the folks...

Morning All, Runner, sorry to hear you are under the weather. Get well soon. Happy Birthday to Tom W.. Great weekend. Lots of trains. went to a swap meet, sold some stuff, bought some stuff, and spent quite a bit of time in the train room. The wife has a few chores for me this morning and it is back...

Larry, i found some pictures of the track cleaning cars that i use. One is the old Walthers car with the masonite sled. This was designed by John Allen and manufactured by Walthers. It is probably 30 years old and still going strong. This my favorite and it does a wonderful job cleaning the track. A...