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Crash 001.JPG Somewhere in here we were chatting about "prototypical operations." An older photo of a diamond meet on an early version of Henley. I don't advocate deliberately bashing my locomotives, but a small tap from a moment of inattention does not do lasting harm. In any event, do it once and...

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I found that Wild West site, too, which is the classic vision. That view is more pertinent to the Northern climes, where pine was abundant. In the southerly desert reaches, not unlike Australian Outback, mud, not wood, is the abundant material. So much so, when it is contemplated, most things from e...

This for a North American project, specifically Old West. I am seeking cardstock, or downloadable image thereof, of adobe.
An internet search has so far come up nil. Any links?

Your lake motivated me to get out of the house and drive two hours to Riodoso, New Mexico, which has such a lake as yours. I jumped in and swam across it. The initial shock of mountain water near kilt me, but once accustomed, I was escorted by lively jumping fish. On the return swim, it began to rai...

Gently broke it in. This gem runs so evenly, so smoothly, and so nice and slowly, and all the wheels from loco to tender
pick up so it falters not. If everything ran this good, I'd be a Hornby man for life.

Not that grass. This grass.

First thing that caught my eye was the curvature of the lead tracks. This will create a very dramatic swoop effect of inbound and outbound trains. And this is all point-to-point? I cannot recall having seen such a major undertaking in the version of point-to point. Point to points are a rarity in t...

Smashing set of streamliners.