Model Forum / General / Railroads / October 2003

I finally got my web page up. It's not much, but I was able to use a digital
camera at work last week to shoot photos of my locomotives; I still don't have
any of the layout yet.
http://members.aol.com/jaycunnington/home.html

I updated my site, with some roster shots of my N scale locos and I added an
about Me page, for all u peeps who dont know much about me.
http://www.portsmouthbranch.com
Ian

Please could some of you give me some tips on lining 00 gauge loco models.
I'm an absolute beginner and just wonder what other people use: brush,
bowpen or transfers if they're available. There are some 'lining pens'
available from Pheonix Precision Paints at high cost. Does anyone ...

Hello. Can anyone help please?
I know nothing about model railways but I'm asking for help on behalf of
my father. Please excuse in advance my ignorance on this subject.
I understand that these points are designed to be activated by a pulsed

Got a friend who wants to hang a layout from his restaurant ceiling. Either
O
gauge or S gauge or G......
Any suggestions on companies that sell this kind of thing? Central Jersey

I'm nearing completion of a model of Bulleid 4-SUB unit 4749, and I have a
question about which way around the two trailers go.  The two motor cars
have steps fitted to their inner ends, to allow access to the roof.  The
intermediate trailer cars only have these steps at one end ...

I am new to DCC wiring and I have not been able to find an answer
to this question online so I will ask it here. I'm trying to understand
how to wire multiple power districts using Digitrax equipment. Here's
the simplest example I can think of: Suppose I have a loop with a

I've been searching for a place in Australia that supplies the
Dow Chemical Blue Foam sheets that people are using to build
their Model Railways on....
I found this place http://www.aeromfg.com.au/styroprices.html

A recent thread on this group and a couple of articles in MR indicate
that it is possible to use infared detectors as 'locators' for
determining if a block is occupied and for indexing turntables.
Would you please point me toward books/sites which I can use to bring

I haven't been keeping up with OO gauge much recently, but has Bachmann now
ceased producing the 03? I see that they have an 04, but can't seem to see
anybody who's selling the 03 (ebay excepted). When did they stop making it,
and why don't they do both?

David Cooke, one of the authors of "The Coachihng Stock of NSW" passed away
on Monday evening, 6th October.
He will be buried today (14/10) at 10.30 a.m. at Woronora Cemetery.
A great tarnsport historian will be sadly missed.

Just had a look at my old Triang Hornby coaches and noticed they are not so
different from the Hornby coaches. Anyone have good ideas how to upgrade
them (wheels of course, from where?) and other ideas?
Ta

mydadstrains.com
Layout Photos from the first nail to the last piece of grass //
Sorry that the full extension www. is not in front but for some reason
it won't post with it on the front //

To all my customers. I want to let you know that I will be out of town and away
from the shop and computer for one week as of today. I will be in Tacoma WA
building a layout and installing DCC for a customer.
Thanks for your business

Good Morning All,
       I have vague memories of the last steam engines that ran to Ocean City,
N.J. in the 50s.   My grandfather had a home on Ocean Ave.  between 3rd and 4th
sts.   I used to walk,  as I remember,  with my father or grandfather,  down