Rich!  I guess we are in the same boat.  We are old.  "Strombecker" kits were not made to operate.  They had wooden wheels.  However there was a company that came out with a power unit and trucks for the R.I. Rocket.   "Megow"had some nice kits.  There must have been ten companies that made cardboard side kits.  Red ball had some kits that were not cardboard. Walthers had wood kits. 

I never got to see many U.P. steam locomotives in regular service.  I did get to see a 4-8-4 and 4-6-6-4 that were steamed up and moved a few feet in order to be able to take better photos of them.  All so had a 2-8-2 pull a short fan trip.  In K.C. I got to see a 4-6-2 pull out of union station with a train.  I did see a 4-12-2 leave the roundhouse and head for the yards to pick up a train.  It was a joy to see Santa Fe's 4-8-4s pulling a 70 car train at speed.  In fact I enjoyed see any steam locomotive pulling a train.

I don't know, but since Hong Kong is part of China, do they still mark thing "made in Hong Kong.

wjstix
I don't think Bachmann ever made a BL-2

What does it cost to see those layout?  At the state fair in New Mexico, they have a layout.  The fair provides the building, but the layout must be in operation when the fair is open.   The ticket sales more than pays for the building.  It would be nice to be able to have something like that.  Our local club folded because the membership got down to 2 or 3 people.

Micro-Mark also has drive shafts

also clean the inside of the railhead.

It is too bad that the
EBT does't get the support that it really needs.

I an sure it was private land, and it was some distance between the two bases.  There was the
main base then a road, than the Northshore shore line route.  I never rode it but wished I had. 
the C&NW two tracks. Than a gap then the two track Northshore.  On the south end of the
training base the northshore had a siding where they could load passengers.  Navy men.  No gals
at that time.  About the middle of the base the Northshore passenger line went over to the C&NW
tracks and the shoreline went under the C&NW.  They had a station there for the main base.  This
C&NW station was about a block away.  If you were being shipped in or out you went on the
C&NW.  The rest of the time I rode the northshore.  The Northshore had a local line that
followed the C&NW into town.  The freight line stayed next to the training base.  They has a yard
and did a lot of switching.  On up the line it joined the mainline.  One evening they were shipping
out a trainload of men from the main base.  This siding came into the base.  They seven or eight
cars.  What I liked was the nice 4-6-2 that they had for power.  I was a real nice locomotive, and
not the run of the mill stuff that they ran all the time.

Yes I remembered the E.J.&.E. on the other side of the base.  However I couldn't remember the road name.

I was just reading a report of a KCS derailment.  An official working at the accident scene Monday said he believes the train
derailed because a metal rail broke under the weight of the train. Kane said
I wonder what he thought rails were made out of.

This has nothing to do with Paul, but seeing his T&P logo reminded me of when I was in boot camp at Great Lakes N T C.  North Shore and CN&W ran right next to the base. This was not yesterday, this was in March and April 1952.  Every week day about 4 pm a two car (open platform) N B train would go by pull by a 4-4-2.  One of the men in our company was a fireman for the T&P.  He said boy I sure would like to be firering that.   I said I don't know, that is a hand fired coal burner. As the train goes by the fireman  is at work put more coal to the fire.  He did not know that they used coal.  Well all of our locomotives burn oil.   I can tell you that that is much nicer than coal.  However today I would be happen to do it.

another thing.  I think if they add something to the book, they can renew or get a new copyright. 

Maybe it way on vacation.  I just wanter if it might have been a loose connection.

I would think you would want stainless.