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Good Morning All: My TT is making good progress, the pit is just about all puttyed, sanded down and getting ready for the first coat of primmer. [#welcome] Ben. Tell us a little about yourself. IE: age, scale, layout size or proposed. Noah's the youngester and Fla/Phill is the oldster. Fla/Phil: It's nice to know that someone is about my age but just a little older. Think about how much we learned and forgotten. JP: I use 3/4" plywood, with cork roadbed, and atlas code 83 flextrack and Walthers switches. Phil & Ed- remember when we were considered wimps if we used Tru-scale MILLED roadbed and not handlaid ties. If you're in HO, foam isn't going to be strong enough to support the load. Also don't listen to MR - tracks need to be at least 2 1/4" c/c, if you have fat fingers think about 2 1/2". You need to be able to put a car on the track without knocking something else off. Ed: I went over to Papa Ben's yesterday and am now $275.00 lighter, but the new Kato Santa Fe business car sure looks nice on the tail end of my passenger train. Do any of ya'll know what the difference is between the first and second run of the Kato business car? Tom: How is Shawna doing? Jim: I had a tear in my eye when i was reading about "the hands". I've sent it to several friends already. THANKS Noah: I've found out that if I snipe on eBay (turn in your bid 30 seconds before ending) it usually is cheaper because their isn't someone raising your bid just to see how far they can push Dave 9999: You and I have the best about advantage about snow - if we want to see it, get in the car and drives 300 miles north, enjoy it, drive back home and go to bed. Glad that you came out allright with the hurricane. Paul: This is an enticement to get some friends and come south. I will guide you on a four layout tour. 1) Steve Barkley's Northern Pacific, 2) Mickey Taylor's Katy, 3) John Kupper's KCS, and 4) my Almost Nothing with a lot of Santa Fe steam. Steve's layout's signaling was written up in MR in the same issue as the Mexican Hat Canyon. It is 20'X24' almost all done (well as much as they ever get done) Mickey's layout is all deisel (whatever that word means). It takes up a two car garage that been completely weathered in and AC'd. John's layout is 14' X 16' layout in the deisel era. Modern double stacks. My layout is 13' X 15' and is nothing but plywood prarie, in an upstairs bedroom. So that give you two layouts in the transition era and two in the diesel era. Suggested itenararey: 1) Leave Sat morning and come down visit all four and go home. Makes for a long day but doable. 2) Leave Sat morning, visit Papa Ben's in Houston. Do two layouts Sat afternoon and night, do two layouts on Sun and go home. 3) Leave Sat morning, visit three layouts in the afternoon and evening. Do one layout Sun morning and then got to Papa Ben's and then home. Papa Ben's doesn't open untill 12:00 on Sun. I think it would be a nice weekend for a group of modelers. All of the layouts use Digitrax with radio control. Let me know what you think. John is probably the only iffy one as he is a nationwide trouble shooter for Air Liquide and sometimes isn't always in town on the week end. Well I've got to get ready for church Have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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