Hi everyone.
i love model trains and ive been a long time railfan, but never produced a layout as of yet. Planning on doing one later this year.
mostly im interested in trains because of insulators, i have a large collection, some super rare pieces all the way down to commons.
I hope to learn from this site, thanks
Cody
[#welcome]
[#welcome] What part of Oh. you in? Quite a few folks from Ohio here. I was born in Cleveland and raised in Columbus.
[#welcome] Welcome aboard.
A few months back we had a thread discussing how to model insulators on pole lines. You might want to enter a query in the forums query system.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with pole lines and catenary)
Welcome Cody,I sort of collect Erie ,PRR and NKP insulators,date nails and “clinkers”. Much to the wife’s dismay. Joe
Welcome Cody,
Look around. Ask a lot of questions.
Welcome Cody,
I never realized how collectable insulators were until I stopped by a friend’s house one day and Lo and behold, his house was decorated with display cases and shelving with all kinds of rare pieces of insulators.
I thought that we: the train collectors, were a bit nuts, but good thing this guy is single. His house must have thousands of these things everywhere. Some of them are way to beautiful to have to hide (kind of like some of my newest engines) in the basement somewhere.
[#welcome] Cody.
I just happen to have a few above the arch between the dining room and living room.[tup]
Sue
Hi everyone, thanks for the welcome.[:)] im from the area around youngstown ohio, lots of cool lines here.
ill post some pics of my collection soon.
There are some great pieces up there Sue, especially the two on the ends.
again, thanks for the welcome everyone.
Thanks. They were my Dad’s. He passed them on to me when he died. I had always enjoyed them. They seemed to fit on the arch. Do you have any interesting ones?
Sue
[#welcome] You will get lots of help here from everyone on all aspects of building your RR Empire. All you have to do is ask.
A good place to start is Space Mouse’s web site.
Blue Flamer.
Hello and welcome.
There are many and varied people here so I am sure you will find what you are looking for.
Enjoy 
Hi Cody, As you have seen by the number of replies, we are a group of guys with vast array of expertise May I suggest that if you are serious in starting a model railroad, that you go for “state of the art” , DCC. This will allow you to install automatically controlled reverse loops, and many other features that are not possible with analog DC. If space is limited, go for HO or N scale. HO scale has the largest offering of railroad cars and structure models. If possible, join a model railroad club. My group has members that help in all areas of model railroading. I ,also, suggest that you sign up with Model Railroader “Dream-Plan-Build”, DVDs,(for $24), on many aspects of model railroading. If you plan to “Post” pictures of your modeling progress, you first have to Copy and Paste the pictures in a compatable Internet Host,such as Photobucket.com/Flock, (or other HOSTS). To Copy and Paste picture/s as a “Post”, it is necessary to use the following. ROBTAHahn@aol.com &
[#welcome] to the forum!
My dad and grandfather had a collection of insulators, I think there are still a few on display in my dads house.
If you just want to join a “bull session” come in and visit the Trackside Diner thread, always a bunch of folks just chewing the fat on anything trains related or not!
Welcome… the diner is a good place to chew the fat. in some cases, it may be getting fat on too much chewing.
Enjoy the MR forum… warning, it can get a bit goofy!
Happy Model Railroading!
Hi everyone, thanks for the welcomes.
for my railroad i am planning on doin a modern CSX line, running through a simple little town. most likely a 5’x8’ layout. still in planning phase.
ill take some pics along the way and post em here.
I hope to be doin this maybe in the next month or so.
Thanks again,
Cody
Welcome aboard!! I live in a neighboring state that shares your line of interest (West Virginia and CSX) I model CSX and anything that was in being in WV pre-CSX merger. That’s the great thing about being freelanced. My CSX lines cut through a small town as well, fictional Bald Mountain, staged between Ravenswood and Parkersburg. Ask all the questions and give all the advice you can!
-beegle55