I do believe Bob McDonald may have visited the East Broad Top many years ago. In the living room of Pogue Station -- a house that served as a flag stop for the EBT just south of Orbisonia and where

Hardbound, softbound? How many books? Doug

All have some Robert McDonald In Quest of Colorado Narrow Gauge - first person account of several trips including the last San Juan. All the photos - including color, taken by the author. BLOW

Hi Pete, Give me a day or three and I’ll snap some pics and upload them for you. Thanks for the interest. Joe Melhorn Sahuarita, AZ

Thank you all for your suggestions. I guess I have my work cut out for me!

email sent, thank you. -- Paul Buhrke Recreating the 14th. Subdivision D&RGW Salida Division in 1929

Joe Do you have any pictures of your setup. Your details are great but a few pictures would help make it a bit clearer, at least for me. 😉

Second this. Most complete and accessible for research. Chris Lane - Editor HOn3 Annual chrislaneon30@...

I find my copy of Sundance Books "Rio Grande - to the Pacific", my "go to" book when I need information. It gives a year by year synopsis of corporate history, lines constructed, lines abandoned,

Joe: Thanks for the tip and detailed info. Mark Lewis narrow gauge modeling in N.C.

I realize I’m chiming in late (as usual) but another source is Drillman1 on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/usr/drillman1 I’ve purchased a lot of carbide drill bits, end mills and other various

I've got a pretty complete listing of books here, w/ descriptions - http://www.rgsrr.com/rgs/refs1.html#drg_b - Steve Haworth RGS history - http://www.rgsrr.info/ Blog - http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/

Gary: Most HOn3 modelers use either Mico-Engineering, Peco or Fastracks(hand laid) turnouts. Shinohara turnouts are old school construction and are no longer in production. Paul asked a reasonable

I got some used L & R Code 70 Dual gauges switches I will probably never use. Mule, Climax at mindspring dot com

Gary: Any dual gauge code 70's? -- Paul Buhrke Recreating the 14th. Subdivision D&RGW Salida Division in 1929

Don: Sort of. The branch runs from Ouray Jct. about ten feet overall. However there is Ridgway and Ouray packed in sort of a narrow gauge time-saver. I do have #329/330 & #320/319 running the branch

Great idea, Mark. I am about to mount Tichy grab irons on an EBT house car. I will definitely use this technique.-- Russ Norris, MMR Cape Cod,

Drilling the end grab holes isn't quite as much fun as drilling the holes in the sides. This is how I try to hold the body while drilling by hand. Dusty Burman

I see all these issue with properly locating grab irons and wonder. Back in the mid 1960's I made a jig out of a piece of cardstock and a small section of wood. I used a drafting pencil to locate

Paul, Nice work, this the first model I have ever seen on this bridge. Do you model the Ouray Branch? Don Bergman