Model Forum / General / Railroads / December 2003

I'm planning on having some dual gauge trackage in my layout, HO/HOn3,
and was wondering about some nomenclature concerning track.  On
walthers.com there is some dual gauge stuff called transition track,
right and left.  Is this track where the narrow gauge diverts from the

Guys, at the suggestion of Ed Oates, I checked out DigiKey, and their system
seems pretty reasonable when you want to buy small parts like resistors. Any
order under $25 has a $5 handling charge tacked on, but you can select US
First Class Mail, and for an 8oz package only ran $1.68 ...

    > Found this on the web and thought it may be of interest.

Thanks to all who gave me advice on repainting Farish bodies.
I now need information on decals.
The company's who supply decals how do they come a sheet to do more than one
loco, do they have a selection of numbers and other items on the sheet such

Any news as to why their website is still down?
If you are succeeding in finding their link, please list their link.
Maybe mine is old.

Good news (well partly good news, 'casue I've got them to pay) just got some
VERY heavy invoices for Heljan Hymeks - so they're on the way!  :-)

Got myself a new copy of the Hornby Virtual Railway (Version 2) only to find
that it gives Illegal Operations on both my WinXP and Win98 machines.
Installed patch and fixed
Win98 machine, but I would like it to work on the XP computer.

I am looking at the most expensive planned purchase to date w/ respect
to model railroading. We'd like to add a BLI Cab Forward to our wish list.
However, I would sure like to hear from as many of you as possible as to
how BLI is perceived by modelers [such as those on this NG]. ...

I've got two standard Hornby platforms either side of two tracks which have
the standard 6.7 cm separation but I don't know what the separation between
the platforms themselves should be.
As I'm going to fix the platforms to the baseboard and may buy a Hornby R076

I'm a model railroading newbie.  I got a Lionel starter set a couple
of years ago, and have been picking up a new piece or two here and
there.  Generally I only get the thing out around Christmas.
I started out thinking that Lionel was the big name with the history

My wife really wants a baseball diamond on my new HO layout.  Unfortunately,
I can find players.  Anyone know a source for HO scale baseball players?

Now that I have some of the track in place on the Georgetwon
Branch I have been looking for instructions on how to
use a Car Card system for operation.
I would like to create the car cards on the computer and print

Hi, I am returning to railway modelling after a long-ish absence. I
would like to model a SMALL layout, since I have a modern house which of
course, is pretty crap space wise.
I would like to model a small city centre type passenger station (circa

Does anyone know if there has ever been a color comparison chart between
the different brands of model paints?  I'm looking for an equivalent in
Polyscale for Scalecoat II Boxcar red.
Thanks,

Can anyone give me some idea on painting loco body's.
Do you have to strip off the original paint work, can I use acrylic paints.
Who do I use to get paint from and decals.
Thanks for any help