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ACE Trains, makers of "gauge O" European tinplate locomotives, launched a new website.  The site features all of there beautiful products and the latest news about ACE Trains.  Check it the site here.

When Lionel bought K-Line I never understood why they didn’t resurrect the old K-Line site that was chock full of product information.  Well, starting today the product information found on the old K-Line site will  be available at www.legacykline.com.  All the product information from the old K-Line site just before the company went under has been transformed into a neatly organized, easy to navigate website.  The site was created by On The Mark Technologies, a side business of Mark Johnson, a.k.a. MojoMark to those that frequent the O Gauge Railroading and Model Train Journal forums.  Mark did a fine job parsing and presenting the information from the old site.  Check out the new site here. 

Over on the Model Train Journal, highrailjon posted a link to a YouTube video you’ll want to check out.  The video captures the construction progress of a huge 2300 sq. foot layout.  The owner built a large "train house" as the train room.  View the video below and check out the owner’s web site here.

Dateline Washington State.  An unsuspecting modeler made the mistake of inviting a N Scale layout into his apartment back around the year 2000.  Years later the layout is now attacking his entire living space, taking up every nook and cranny along every wall of the 19.5′ x 35′ apartment.  It all started as an innocent, small platform layout in the corner of the kitchen.  The layout then expanded into a shelf layout running around the walls of the living room/kitchenette.  The monstosity later spread into the adjacent bedroom (the remainder of the apartment).  The layout has upper and lower "bedroom yards", a "washer/dryer S curve", a "wedding cake spiral" made out of layers of cardboard, a "bathroom drawbridge" and "under cabinet yards".  The owner is very distressed obsessed with the situation.  You can view the creature here  ( note that you have to scroll down the page  to find the photo links)

This apartment devouring terror exemplifies how a grown man can be overcome by the beast known as the model railroad layout.  Don’t let this happen to you O Gauge modelers!  Well, you could let it happen but you would have to be very very single and borderline crazy.

I’m not sure when this happened but Lionel launched a new website dedicated to their K-Line by Lionel product line.  The site probably launched in conjunction with the inaugural K-Line by Lionel 2007 Volume 1 catalog but I missed it.   Check out the site here.  Hey Lionel, you may want to redirect traffic heading for www.k-linetrains.com to the new site.

I was catching up on my forum reading when I came across a post on the Classic Toy Trains forum containing a link to the Toy Trains On Tracks website.  The site is devoted to a layout called the Black Diamond Railway and has lots of links to fantastic photos and video clips of O Gauge in action on the beautiful Hi-Rail layout.  Be sure to check it out.  Also, the Black Diamond layout will be featured as the cover story in the upcoming October/November issue (Run 217) of O Gauge Railroading magazine.

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