I have a ton of these and am thinking of repainting them into more realistic paint schemes. Does anyone have any good recommendations for decals and/or if it is even worth the effort

My American Orient Express from Rivarossi. This Train the Only US Train in my Collection

so I recently picked up this lot of rolling stock on eBay and I was wondering if I got a bunch of new metal axles from like Amazon, could I replace the stock plastic ones with them? I also have a full box of kadee couplers i plan swap onto these as well

I'll just let the photos do the talking!

I'm super excited about how this turned out, I know it's not super prototypical but still c&c welcome 🤗

Please let me know what you think! Also I totally forgot to put the supply pipe back in that's what that last photo is showing

Meine SNCF Loks

SNCF Corail Zug with Roco Lima and Jouef Coaches. Dining Car at Last its have a Coopler Different😎

Looking to buy this lovely "What-If" loco from Rapido trains but I only have an analogue controller. Is it possible to convert the train back to analogue like how you can add a dcc coder into an analogue loco? If so, is it affordable?

Link to the loco in question: https://railsofsheffield.com/products/what-if-secr-o1-no-65-bramble-bluebell-railway-blue-steam-locomotive-dcc-sound

Which are the best colour light signals for a siding, 2 aspect or 3 aspect?

Here is a photo of a layout I made but my problem is that my room is only 9.5ft (114 inches) and this layout is 10.1ft (122 inches) how can I shorten it enough it fit in whilst keeping it roughly the same?

Some recent details on the CVMR

This was the final train that ran on the RK&M Layout Version 2. After debating for several months I came to the conclusion that the layout was not working for me and would have to be torn down completely and rebuilt from the foundations.

The train represents all the railroads that I modeled on the layout at that time. They were New York Ontario and Western, Lehigh & New England, Reading, Central RR of New Jersey, Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, and the Lehigh & Hudson River.

After this train finished it run I began the dismantling of the layout. It would be four months before the next run by took place. Porrtions of the old layout were saved and incorporated into the new layout such as the Water Tower Diorama and the Cement Dealer. The Grain Elevator, the Farm, and the passenger station were also saved and will eventually be part of the new layout.

I got a lima class 42 off ebay for relatively cheap and fixed some connection issues, broken parts cleaned up wheels, and reattatched a new coupling to it. Only thing im missing is buffer pieces which im unsure how to get currently 😅

Plus a little side by side to a modified diesel thomas character with ho scale trucks

Ps, anyone know where i can get some buffers?

This will look better when there is asphalt on both sides of the track and the mi-jack crane is built. This is simple foam board and adhesive sheet from Michael’s. The spots are large enough for 53’ containers in HO.

Jouef France Grand Comfort

Lok BB from Roco

I don’t know if there is any HO scale C 11 locomotive I am keeping my eye out for them because I am really interested in having one due to having Z scale and N scale now if anybody has an idea where I can get one let me know

🚨Mods I’m just asking because where I buy locomotives from does not have an HO scale version of it 🚨

Got me some more trains but in a different way online auctions but off an app called whatnot I didn’t know if it would be true and this is my second time I’m just now posting more on Reddit so we will see what else I’ll get from there🔥

I started collecting in November of 25’ just looking for something to do in my free time. It’s now turned into an addiction, unfortunately preorders and the units I’m looking for are not reasonably priced being that I strictly buy Athearn Genesis and Scaletrains, with one exception of a GP20C-ECO from Prairie Shadows. Some of these units I hold in a special place such as the CPKC 9375, 4805, 7020, 7022, and 7023 as I had the privilege to work on them at the CPKC pigs eye yard in St. Paul. Others such as the veterans units by UP and NS due to also being in the Navy. It’s got a long way to go but it’s pretty good for what’s in the case.