PyroB97

I think that from now on, seeing an HBAK without a Simpsons character, will just seem incomplete.

Looking for more of this.

That never gets old.

Years ago, Rusto was making a water-based enamel. They've since discontinued it. It was great stuff when it was available. I use acetone to thin Rusto now.

The pic in the first post appears to be from Europe. There's a whole website dedicated to German RR signals (in German) at: http://www.blocksignal.de/index.php

We put a RR spike on A line tracks between Broad Channel and Howard Beach one day thinking it would flatten out huge. We were just kids and didn't know words like "malleability" or "ductility". Didn't derail the train, but the head car jumped up about a foot off the rail and came down with a bang that you could have heard in the BX. Anyway... Massive derailments happen when the train is moving pretty fast, one car comes off the rail and there's a chain reaction through the train. Slow speed it's usually pretty minor.