Yes, it's been forever, I know that... Hush.

My interests have turned a bit when I realized how impractical most of my other projects were without some sort of machine shop of my own. For a short time, my interest in G Scale trains was renewed and around Christmas time I bought several cheap locos but I lost interest in that a bit as I realized how much track would cost and how insanely little security my property could offer.. I spoke to my Mother In Law about building a layout inside the house and was given a significant chunk of the kitchen and dining room. It is not as big as I would like it to be but lets face it, neither is this house!

The following posts will be exact copies of my posts on the WWW.ScaleRailsOnline.com forum. Posting here is not an effort to take anything away from SRO, just as a way to make it more accessible to friends who have no interest in model railroading themselves but are interested in following along with the progress of my layout. If you are interested in modeling in the smaller scales please check out SRO, they have alot of good resources and a bunch of good people! If you are more into the larger scales, check out www.LargeScaleCentral.com Again, a ton of good resources and a bunch for friendly folks!

Hope you enjoy reading along with me.

Mike from Diecastoms.

Quick thanks:

Just a quick post to send a thanks out to Tim from timstrucks for the cab that he sent me so that I would have something physical to compare my thoughts to. Head on over to his site, he has a TON of pictures devoted to trucks and the IMPRESSIVE models that he builds of the trucks. There are pictures of his models side beside with pictures of real trucks and you literally cannot tell which is which!!!!

AWE INSPIRING WORK Tim, keep it up!

Tims Trucks


P.S. I can only wish that the picture above was the truck he sent ;)

[EDIT: 11-26-08] Tim's Trucks Website has apparently moved. The new location is:
http://timstrucks.web.aplus.net/
the page for peterbilt trucks like the one I am building is here:
http://timstrucks.web.aplus.net/PBcabover362.htm

Check his site out! I am sure he will appreciate the traffic.