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The producer is on another road trip and as soon as he gets back he should be good to go. I have seen the 'final' cut and it looks awesome. Lot's of those killer aerial quad-copter shots. Russ

7Idea Productions has sent us a great teaser of the upcoming Triennial video. The schedule is still set for release towards the end of October but this teaser sure wet's one's appetite!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqx8lJmZjek



Enjoy, Russ

"Anybody with information of it?" Belongs to John Cooper of Klamath Falls, he is our head signal maintainer at Train Mountain. He has had some growing pains with it as most of us do, but seems to be running fine now. In regards to 1.5 vs 1.6 vs 1.7 the main single reason for doing any of ...

A few years ago I made up some 'portable' seats that fit the Train Mountain flat cars. Here is the link to that old pdf file. Current versions of these seats are only 8 inches high instead of the original 12 inches. They saw plenty of use during the recent Triennial. Russ http://hobby-tronics.com/tr...

I happen to own an electric mogul, it was purchased for the express purpose of running indoors during special events at our local fairgrounds and introducing folks to the riding scale hobby. It smokes, it chuffs, it pulls 6 adults, and seems to make the same size smiles as most coal burners do at ou...

"small fortune" - wrong! Russ

Train Mountain Chiloquin Oregon - $50 individual, $75 family which is 2 adults and any number of kids same household. Klamath and Western Chiloquin Oregon - $25 individual, $8 spouse or additional family member Additionally Train Mountain charges to attend meets, otherwise the membership fee covers ...

"donation/sale as a fundraiser?" I would think because of the tremendous amount of 'parts' that a subscription would work as a fund raiser long term. I'm thinking a website that we would have access to for downloading this months goodies. Love what you are doing and can't wait until some o...

Chooch - depends on the road as to board width also age of car. 2 1/2 scale 3 inch board = .6, 4 inch = .8, while 1 1/2 inch scale 3 inch board = .375, 4 inch = .5. The shape of the tip of the router bit determines the shape of the groove, so tapered bits seem to work the best. I've also done some b...

I cheat, cnc scribed siding, 60 degree v carve bit. Russ

2 1/2 inch scale combine


1 1/2 inch scale NP caboose

The computer guys at TM have another new wringle for this years Ops Meet. Check tha link below tomorrow during west coast daylight hours. IIts a live dispatch board showing trains running during the Ops Meet. The colors signify passenger, freight, stopped, etc,. Its pretty neat to watch them move ar...

"On returning will be bringing the ever growing train " That is one of the ongoing issues at Train Mountain and the Triennials. You see we started with around 185 trains for the first IBLS meet in 2000. In 2003 we added a few more trains BUT everone that returned brought ONE more car. Tha...