To all of the members of the G&D group who have far more knowledge than I (and possibly one or two more years, 😊 – joking guys, I’m not far of retiring myself!) does anyone know if Bosco figures are s

There is also a great German company that can make custom figures in HO, N or even Z scales to your order, I have encouraged them to consider making a G&D line but I think they would need to understan

Can’t wait. Their current website is a mess of outdated code (who uses ASP but the government? Even Microsoft has stopped using it!!!) I have offered my assistance but evidently not to the right peopl

Hey guys I just got this today and thought you might be interested. Larry Smith

Interesting Blog post from 2013 on John Allen's influence, even linking him to Rod Stewart. http://www.smarttinc.com/a-smartt-special-report-john-allens-influence-on-model-railroading-and-smartt/

Hi Warner- Nice to see your layout in the Dispatcher's Office. Great job! David (Dry Gulch & Western)

I have created 2 new groups, Fans of the HOn3 Annual https://groups.io/g/FansoftheHOn3Annual and Fans of the On30 Annual https://groups.io/g/FansoftheOn30Annual. These are both unofficial sites and ha

Wow, so sorry to hear. I always liked his monthly intros to the MR magazine contents. Russell Courtenay Begin forwarded message: From: "Joseph Lechner" <jlechner@...> Date: September 4, 2020 at 6:45:1

I have a like new copy of the large format paperback book "The Fabulous Franklin & South Manchester railroad" by George Sellios . The book retailed new for $19.95. I am offering it for $15.00 includin

Another one has shown up on eBay if anyone is interested... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Model-Railroading-With-John-Allen-Expanded-Edition-/143696736717 Russell Courtenay Solemnity and profundity are sub

I have the first edition. What was added to the expanded edition? Al Guckes

Thanks for sharing this link and fascinating story for us, especially any of us that have let their NNRA membership lapse. I don’t know about you all, but I get goosebumps just looking at the stuff! 5

I was so close to taking the plunge and going DCC... but the $$ costs and time of redoing the engines I have already redone years ago with can motors and some with new gearing. Also with little knowle

‘Good friends are good to have’, he was getting out of the railroad part to concentrate on his model building. Yes, there is a lot of equipment available for using many DCC features and now the new NM

Wow that’s a good friend indeed, Russell! As I understand it there are also devices that allow you to control the DCC features on a DC layout, some thing you could consider adding on Randy. Just havin

My guess is that John would have welcomed DCC because it would have made ops smoother. According to what Linn Westcott wrote in The Book, a constant worry was that operators would forget to throw bloc

The famous picture of John working on his layout #2 has a rock casting next to him in the picture. He did use it. It is in the Glenn Beier group I was so happy to see it and I was surprised I never no

Just a quick word about train speeds on the G & D based on the handful of times I was there. Operating speeds were slow / prototypical. It was a mountain railroad! I can’t recall any examples of anyon

And the launch page is linked to the main GDRP page as well (where all the recent additions have been added). http://www.gdlines.org/GDLines/index.html Errors, omissions, comments please. Most of all,

For some oblique reason these comments reminded me of a story I’ve told before. It was the first time I had seen the Timesaver. I’m unclear on the time frame here because I don’t remember when it was