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Would you please spell out what you have been told the "RLR" stands for? It may have been a company drawing investors in the mid 1800's which NEVER drove a spike in anything.

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It must not be summer; I can tell because the potty door is closed! Isn't that a horrible trade-off in the Maritimes? Leave the door open for a nice breeze, but then the BLACK FLYS get ya!

VERY NICE WORK!!!

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The Montreal Railroad Modelers Association's massive HO layout in downtown Montreal stands to be evicted by their Landlord. The Landlord is CANADIAN NATIONAL. Making it's home in a warehouse by the tracks near Central Station for decades, Canadian National now wishes to move the club out for a stora...

Everybody's right; unless it's something you can gently swab off with wet cotton balls, using only water, leaving the paint and lettering intact? Forget it. If the car was sprayed over with dull cote, forget it. If you put the cars on a window sill to let the sun fade them, forget it. Why do you wan...

From recent developments in the hobby (five years?), I think the use of plaster and cloth with foam is an unnecessary redundancy. Considering you can SCULPT the foam into virtually anything, why not shape the foam as desired, rather than get involved with plaster and a royal wet mess? This GENIUS up...

The Montreal Railroad Modellers Association has a MASSIVE layout near Canadian National's Central Station, in downtown Montreal. The club has been been given notice that they will be losing their lease within 18 months, and the layout is too large to dismantle and relocate. Finding a comparable spac...

I wonder what THREEE of them bashed together would look like? Another variation would be to bash a freight annex on one end. Here's a possiblity, it even has the practically the same windows; http://www.saintquentin.nb.ca/images_up/162.jpg This is the former Canadian National station in St. Quentin,...

The first generation kits had super-dinkey trucks. In the past two years, I purchased some of the RTR cars and Amfleet II coaches, and I think they're excessively overweight. If more work was put into the wheels and trucks, weight wouldn't be so critical. Look at European equipment; tap it with your...

I really don't know. I was under the impression that the facility was under the control of NY State DOT.

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I miss these trains so much, and I sincerely wish that passenger ops in Canada had never been merged. Thank you for uploading these.

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Anything new on this story? The shot of the stainless steel kitchen was a shocker, I thought that stuff didn't rust!

Isn't it strange that while making such a dramatic change, that a curve wasn't put in place where the JFK Football Field is, with the Central making a bee-line from that point directly to the Hudson, south of Riverdale? I always thought that Spuyten Duyvil and Marble Hill stations were rediculously ...

Instead of getting new wheels, put that money towards other things you will need, including rolling stock. YES, stick with Kadee #5's on your Freights.

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There was a cartoon in Model Railroader around 1970 on the first article I ever saw about Freelancing and Nitpicking. It had a bigmouth pointing out a potential mistake by sarcastically calling out; "WHAT'S THIS GAY 90'S SANTA FE STATION DOING ON A PENNSYLVANIA LAYOUT???" The owner looked ...

Otto is right -- as usual. Same practice as on a real train - the Obs should only go on the rear. Sleepers away from the engine, up against the Obs. Diner may be up front as a baffle to the locomotive -- nobody wants to sleep next to a running locomotive. You can have a gutted coach or sleeper servi...