Jim Miller

Just love it........... Jim

Got the flat car. Had to cut off 6 of the tie down lugs to get excavator to seat down in the depressed section.............Jim

Got this email today............Jim Hi Everyone, Hope you are doing well. Wanted to give a quick update on production and possible production. Currently there is track being made. Brass items are in production now as the factory waits for the SS material which will then allow them to make everything else next month. It should be delivered, hopefully, in August. I'll send a list of what is being made following this email. Trains. You have to remember that we brought in 2 containers of old merchandise that was left at the factory. At this point we are still being held up by items that were ordered by AristoCraft 4 years ago. They are items that we really don't want to start with so we have be trying to resolve how we can get around it. Once this is handled we will start producing trains. Our business plan still holds strong. It has just taken a little longer then we expected. Believe the rumors if you want but the mess that was left in China is bigger then what has been left to believe. We are set on cleaning it up and moving forward. Thanks, Scott

And there is always the issue of what is the smallest radius track they can run on. If they will only run on 16 to 20 foot diameter curves it will reduce the size of the potential market..................Jim

Thanks for the dimension, it will just work. The excavator is made by Doyusha, I also got a front end loader and dump truck. All of them are 1/28 scale and have 8 channel RC.......................Jim

If anyone has one of these, could you please measure the length of the depressed section. I have a 1/28 scale excavator and want to knowif it will fit.......................Jim

Raymond, I once emailed you about a battery replacement. Would the following work?.................Jim http://www.dallee.com/9V%20Replacement.html Pair of super caps is $16.00

Jerry has the stuff. Great lookin train. And Sean had a clean Memorial Day, better luck on the 4th of July....................Jim

First run of the new extension. It is operational but still needs a lot of work. Also includes a turn around, did not try it yet..................Jim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a-mG4TjKak

I stopped to talk to Scott at the 2015 York show about these items. It seams the reason is now that the factory is dictating what they feel will sell, not what Scott wants. New sounds for the REVO is still no where in sight. Same old reply.......we need to record new sounds first. Now that the market has expanded to "O" and "HO" gauge, maybe will see, I mean hear them in the near future. It is even hard to find used stuff to buy, not much on Ebay. Someone needs to make product. It seams USAT discontinued there ore cars and Bachmann has no new product.......................Jim

If your layout will be under trees you could use a RailBroom to remove twigs, acorns, leaves etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_LgaUs2bUw

Yes they have! I started going to show in 2006 and they have been there several times since then................Jim

Scott Polk was at the show, Friday only. Crest Electronics was there also but neither had any new or good news. Crest was doing a Demo of the HO REVO. I purchased some USAT, 3 - 42 foot modern tank cars, one Bachmann Tidewater tank car and 3 Bachmann passenger cars for my Grand Sons train . Also a brass PRR N5C caboose which Aristo sold many years ago. This one was complete and no broken parts. I ordered some nice code 250 track to display it on. I to was disappointed in MTH so my money went to the above. Sure was the bleakest show I was ever at..........................Jim

Yes, my wife made them................Jim

they are $999.99 at trainworld. 1500 is list price....................Jim

Now with some sound and motion................Jim

I found that with USA Trains products you will need to keep the solution on for about 1.25 to 1.5 hours. I also used paper towel folded to 3 folds works just as good or better than the cotton. The paper towel lays flush againts flat surfaces with no voids. On LGB products, if left on too long will also start to remove shell paint................Jim

Started the 2014 Christmas layout. I don't dare to set out the little people because the cats will carry them off and hide them behind the cloth dryer.................Jim

Here we have an additional caboose and ore payloads. CRR purchased 2 of these cabooses from the Reading RR and numbered them 900 & 901................Jim

The latest addition to the CWL. I have an NW-2 on order for the diesel era (1950 to 1964).

Aristo once had a news letter they sent out and years ago Ron Wagner did an artical on putting Aristo power blocks in USATrains deisels. I try to find it.......Jim

Found an undecorated Aristo Consolidation and was delivered on Monday. It will become the #9 on the Cornwall RR. The #10 will be going to Lakeland Florida to run on the K&E RR and then to Mark Oles to run for the PRR museum open house tour. Hope to work on the #9 while on vacation...............Jim

Here's the next two cars lettered. Will need clear coat on caboose, don't trust lettering to stay attached due to grooved sides. Next I need some of those undecorated Aristo ore cars that Scott has been promising. Another project will be to do the Cornwall #15 a 2-8-0 so I need to find an undecorated Aristo consolidation. And of coarse I need to find the money. History Tidbit: The Cornwall Railroad remained a very prosperous line well up through the 1950’s and into the early 1960’s. In just the year of 1949 alone, the railroad hauled 1,448,000 tons of iron ore, significantly more than the annual revenue of 51,068 tons in the 1850’s. In 1950, the line replaced its fleet of steamers with much more efficient diesel-electric locomotives. However, in 1962 Bethlehem Steel created a new concentrator plant in Rexmont. For many years prior to this, raw ore was shipped up to Lebanon to be processed there at the original concentrator. The reduction in revenue due to shipping only processed ore devastated the Cornwall Railroad. It was only two years later in 1964 that the Reading Company acquired the ailing Cornwall. In 1972, Hurricane Agnes struck and flooded the ore mines. After over 230 years of mining there was simply not enough ore to justify draining the mine shafts to recover what little was remaining. The open pit mining was continued until 1973 having been drained after Agnes. A year following the closure of the mines, the concentrator was reopened. For approximately one more year, Bethlehem Steel shipped foreign ore in to the Rexmont concentrator to be processed and then shipped out, again by rail. After it closed for the second time, there was no longer a need for a rail line into Cornwall, thus ending Cornwall’s railroading history. Some trackage was still used for another two decades that truncated north of Cornwall. This remaining track served Alcoa near Midway, a feed mill, the Lebanon Daily News, and one or two other industries before Conrail abandoned it circa 1996. Today there is approximately several hundred feet of servicible track in Lebanon City that Norfolk Southern utilizes, which once belonged to the Cornwall Railroad. ..................Jim

Gave it a run on Labor Day. Want to see more? https://plus.google.com/photos/109450470389782260686/albums/6054186999495043041 History Tidbit: In 1884, the Cornwall & Mount Hope Railroad was opened to traffic between its two namesake towns. In Cornwall it tied in with the Cornwall Railroad and in Mount Hope, Lancaster County, it interchanged with the Reading & Columbia branch of the Philidelphia & Reading RR. This line was owned by the Cornwall Railroad and was absorbed into it two years later. With this addition, the Cornwall's mainline reached its full length of 11.8 miles. Although its secondary trackage and sidings varied greatly over the years, the Cornwall Railroad's mainline often counted for only half or less of the total trackage owned by the company. The Cornwall did have some trackage rights over the Reading & Columbia branch into Manhiem and at one time all the way into Lititiz. This was done as part of an aggrement between the P&R and the Cornwall known as the Lancaster-Lebanon Joint Line, which allowed either company to use the other's tracks to streamline passenger service. This meant that the Cornwall often ran passenger trains into Manhiem and the P&R would run its trains accross the Cornwall RR. Robert H. Coleman at his height in the 1880’s had roughly thirty million dollars; however, after he over-invested in a railroad scheme in Florida, he lost the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad to his debtors. Eventually the Pennsylvania Railroad began to acquire stock of the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad and completed their purchase of it in 1918. Finally in 1972, the line was abandoned by Penn Central after being severally damaged by Hurricane Agnes. There was simply not enough revenue to justify repairing the line. Hurricane Agnes was also responsible for shutting down the Cornwall Mine. ......................Jim