Southern Exchange Website
This is a place where fellow rail modelers can show off their efforts.
So follow along and as the Southern Exchange comes to life.

NS Slug #921
Creating a farm or plowed field
NS Geometry Train (motive power)
Apple Valley Model Rail Road
Richmond VA, Rail fanning
Rail Fanning in Charlotte NC (Photos by Adam Schultz)
Next up, building the NS Research Caboose
Decals the basics
  
Extreme Maker II Burger King (scroll to bottom)
DB&W Yard Office - From Machine Shop to Yard Office (scroll to bottom)
Scratch built buildings in under 3 hours.
What do you get when you have 8 miles of model railroad track, and a crew of 150?
A huge tourist attraction  UTube Video


Save the adaptors!


Scratch Building the Premier Plastic Plants as a
 3D Background Building




Click here to play Steam Whistle
The Southern Exchange Layout
 is a freelance HO Scale excursion railroad set in the early eighties after the
Norfolk Southern merger. 

         
       An NMRA
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Making the Norfolk Southern OCS Train
Click the images below to follow along

  Part1 Locomotives                        Part 2 Consist   
     
Warthers Museum (unbelievable wood carvings of locos)



Built for Vermont's Bristol Railroad in 1893 by Rhode Island Locomotive Works, this Fortney 0-4-4T stayed in service until the railway shut down in 1930. This engine was the main stay for BRR, hauling passengers, and freight to and from the New Haven Jct. 6 miles west of Bristol. Lightly loaded it could make the trip in just 18 minutes, heavily loaded, well that's  another story.

Bringing the Bristol Railroad back to life

            

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Save the adaptors!

No I have not lost my mind, or suddenly become a tree huger.
The fact is, these very adaptors that clog up our drawers, and or otherwise hang around for years make
perfectly good power sources for your railroad. If your like me and have lost one, or two of these in the past,
then your probably save them all now.  You get them with just about every electrical device you purchase
 these days.  Everything from your old dial up modem to a battery charger that has no batteries any longer.

Take a look at the volts and amps (to make sure its a match), you will find them clearly marked
and I bet it wont be long before you can think of a place that you needed one of these before,
 or could use one now.

Simply cut the end off, then using a meter mark the positive, and negative wires.
More than likely you will find a use for them.