a lot of stuff in a small space--unfortunately, just a loop
http://www.youtube.com/v/kOGnNecDs9I&rel=1"
Hope that link works

Would Bachman consider making an N scale version of the passenger car set that they already have for HO?  Very hard to find lighted passenger cars--I have a couple of old N scale Bachman Santa Fe lighted passenger cars I got from E Bay and like them very much, but would like to see Bachman make them again--with different roadnames

Here's some other pics of L&N passenger cars I found online

I had to take this apart--4'x6' is too big for my little one bedroom brooklyn apt

Just an experiment if I can get a pic from photobucket to post

Although frustrated with switches and wiring, I put a little something together--please be nice--this is my first try.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-nuELQ6J2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0Kz6z5Ib_U
I hope this works. Very nicely done YouTube video of several NYC subway lines-including some vintage cars

OK, so I have chubby fingers, bad eyesight and a small screwdriver.How the heck do I get those tiny little screws in those tiny little coupler pockets? Would using a tiny magnetic phillips head screwdriver mess up the magnet with the ez-mate knucklers?
(I may just give this a rest and work on dioramas till I can see again)

I know this is bordering on the obsessive--but can anyone tell me the proper distance between telephone poles? HO scale.
Another dumb question--since most structures would have phones, has anyone ever thought of putting their accessories wires on your telephone poles and running them that way instead of under the base?
Full of silly questions today

Several of the messages about the NEW track/layout book mentioned the fact that there was an "old" one, but some said they couldn't find it. Perhaps what they are referring to is the track/layout planning book from in the 1990s that comes with the Layout Expansion set, Item 44594. Looking in the 2006 catalog, I don't see a separate listing for the old book, but it's in the expansion set

Got the cars going over the switches fine, but darn those horn and hook couplers! Anyone familiar with IHC smoothside passenger cars and how to take out the long shank horn and hook and put in long shank knuckle couplers? I can't figure out how to detach them from the trucks

I have a Proto 2000 E8/9 A unit passenger diesel.  I notice there are both A and B units out there.  I know the B unit goes behind the A unit, but is it necessary? I'm running DC here, not DCC. The flashing headlight works with the A unit--does the B unit come with any action or is it strictly for looks?