No i noticed there isn't a rail section but hey there are enough of them out there :). Your right though, a lot of the techniques will be applicable and it's one reason why i used to read the old forum postings as i learnt a fair bit from them.
Would love to get back into the kit building side of things again, i threatened to when i quit smoking but it doesn't seem to have happened (the kit building that is not the stopping smoking, now been smoke free for 9 months), although i aquired several kits in readiness, maybe when the railroad has started to take shape a little more i'll get one of them out and give it a go. Anyways, thanks for the welcome rjk, look forward to seeing you around the forum :).