Recent content by sawyer811

The Arkansas and Missouri: the short line that hooked me on ALCos for life. That Pentrex VHS tape, rented so many times from my local library (and finally added to my collection years later) was known to me so well that I knew the lines for the narrator forwards and backwards. To me, no...

The wildfires in Colorado have claimed yet another victim; this time, though, (and, in all honesty, thankfully) that victim was not a human being, but wooden D&RGW 26' "long" caboose 0584, coupled behind K-37 class Mikado No. 499 at the rim of the Royal Gorge. The news story at the top of this...

this has probably been one of my most-wondered about topics of late. the reason it 2 fold. For starters, I've wondered for ages how those little pop up windows you get at the start of say, a built-in PO&N session or Avery-Drexel one are set up. Beyond that, though, I'm getting close to...

A while back, when I switched over to my new computer, I began running in to a problem. Granted, I'd dealt with the annoying as heck "Missing Spline" asset before, but said spline usually wasn't long in staying, once I tracked down the right asset and whatnot. However, it's becoming a bit of a...

Oh. how I love the part of the week where I get a stupid Idea :hehe: whilst perusing an older copy of Model Railroader recently, I re-read the article that showed George Sellios' F&SM as it Finally reached Manchester. In it, one of the photos showed his newly-built station, which was a...

I assume everyone here has at least heard of or seem Tariacuri's amazing Minnesota-style Taconite Jimmies (though if you don't have them installed, you are SO missing out!) as well as their generic/MoW variants. if not, they're at missaberoad.com My problem is, I'd love to have a proper route...

I've been seeing a lot of pictures of what appears to be Simulatortrain's old RS1 floating around lately, in different paintscheme. I have learned since that said loco was released as part of the "Midwest Industrial" pack--or maybe it's not released, just it's part of said pack. That's where...

That title...those words be high-praise indeed from this Narrow-Gauge Nut, sometimes referred to as "he who believes the entire NG universe revolves around the D&RGW!" :hehe::o Okay, joking aside, this is, as far as I'm concered, the "Hidden Gem" of the Narrow Gauge world. the National...

Lately, with waay too much time on my hands...again...I've been spending a massive amount of time trolling YouTube. Whilst doing that, I came across another site, basically listing/hosting every TV series and its episodes that are on youtube in one place. Well, guess what was included in...

After seeing your thread for your Indian ALCo/MLW diesel, I started looking around your site, atlantarails. I noticed the "Timeline" and "Georgia Coast" routes, and to be honest I loved them from the moment I saw them, but I wondered: are they built for TS12 only, or will they work for...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoz7pzaQOQs&feature=g-vrec&context=G25994e5RVAAAAAAAACA another video that shows I've got waaaay too much spare time on my hans nowadays :eek: Personally, if I was the one driving the Geep, I'd have just run the ignoramus over in notch-8. "How long is this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGYJRsiuHEM&feature=related Two things popped into my head simultaneously when I saw this: the first was, "Man, this is awesome!" immediately followed by, "I wonder if Strasburg would let me borrow this next time it snows: I could use that to plow my driveway"...

I know the general rules of obtaining permission to release a modified asset, but the quandry I'm in here is over release of a modified version of Highland Valley 2004, which is an upgraded and expanded version of the route done by CeeBee himself that's on the DLS. I've been playing around with...

Springfield, Illinois, 5:05AM Central Time. Fog Hangs low over the Havana River. It's spring; armed with only your trusty railfanning camera, you camp out on Bridge 165.7, waiting for the first coal drag of the day... A rushing sound draws your attention. You do a double take; did you...

man, I'm beginning to realize why steam engines were phased out for diesels...even their virtual bretheren are nothing but trouble! :o okay, I finally got around to modding a few of my wgkandsk payware steamers, and part of that was swapping the as-delivered cabs (which were the built-in PB-15...