Model Forum / General / Railroads / December 2003

There is a lot to recommend the management of UP for the annual "Railroad
Grinch Award", but they are being challenged!
Yes, the honor of being the annual railroad management grinch is not a done
deal!

I have a few questions about a car shown here:
http://www.geocities.com/heneteko/flatbed_car.jpg
Could someone ID it?
I'd like to build a scale model of it - where could I find plans,

Hornby have been releasing trade order forms with a Class 31 diesel loco
on them for production in 2004.
They've also promised to stick photos of pre-production models of -all-
their planned 2004 releases on their website from Jan 1st.

Does anyone know what time Habitat stores are opening tomorrow for the first
day of their sale? I'm hoping to get to the Chester store if possible.
Regards
Richard

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Just wondering if anyone knows if the Areotrain was ever made in N
scale and if so, if they might know where one could be purchased.
Thanks

Hello Group,
Thought I had finally figured out my new hobby: Garden Railroading.
During the past year, I had read several books, visited MANY websites,
bought a large collection of back issues of Garden Railway magazine

Re: C & B T SHOPS
Has anyone ever seen one of their 'reefer' car kits [and resulting car]
in person?
Walthers offers no images, and the C & B T SHOPS website is equally thin

Just wondering - what steam engines did the SANTA FE  have in their
steam engine roster that were comparable to the Big Boy, the Challenger,
and the Cab Forward of the other two competitors?
Thanks!

Is http://www.athearn.com/ not working today, or do I just have some sort of
glitch on my end of things?

Have you been good boys and girls?
[My model railroad list is pretty modest this year - a pair of Accurail
Andrews trucks for a project I'm working on, and that's about it.]

On eBay the 1991 madison set with the hard to find 9011 baggage car.  
Roger Aultman
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3166438917

Happy Christmas from here in Atlanta GA, where it certainly a bit nipply
outside.
Thanks to all, for all your help,advice and humor over the last year!!
My wife, who is Chinese, tells me that 2004 is "The year of the EMU"

Have you seen the movie Pentagon Wars on HBO.  Tells the story of the
design and building of the Bradly for the US Army.  Only took 17 years
and 14 Billion dollars and they didn't even have it yet.  The first
ones they built were turned down by the Israel army as death traps.

   There are several products around for track laying in  HO and S called
"sweeps".   They are segments of curved bar stock in several different radii
[radius - es (/)].  The nominal radius down the middle of the stock is the
curve radiu in inches,