Model Forum / General / Railroads / December 2003

Any one know of any web sites dedicated to Coffee table layouts?

Our model railroad club rents a basement from an area business.  We were
asked to set up a Christmas display in the front window for the holidays.
We set up a small HO layout, set to run more or less continuously, with
periodic 15 min "rest" breaks.  Apparently we made a mistake in ...

Re: Athearn 70', Standard, Heavyweight Passenger Car [Walthers item #:
140-7850]
A quick question regarding the wheels. I cannot determine if the wheels
are plastic or metal. Very little information is provided on the

Did I dream I saw a post somewhere stating Hornby have been seen on the
G.C.R measuring up their ROD 2-8-0?
An interesting choice if it is true and materialises. LNER, GWR, Early BR.
Late BR?

Go to the Kato website and look at their  (cool) new F3 units.  Note that
anything UP and UP heritage--Rio Grande, Western Pacific is asterisked with
"licensed UP product".  THEN, note that UP and UP heritage models are $5
higher than BNSF or BNSF heritage roads.  The greedy ...

OK, I'm new.  I just bought an MTH Z-1000 transformer and have no clue
how/where to hook the wires from the track.  I have two MTH connector tracks
and have put them at opposite ends of my 11 ft. oval.  I'm running an O-gauge
Railking Challenger and 5 Premier passenger cars.  Do I ...

I'm scratchbuilding a water tank and just got stuck:  what color were the
hoops on the tank?  Were they painted black or were they just rust colored?
Also, does anyone know exactly how the Grandt Line hoop fasteners get
attached?  I keep staring at them and can't figure out how ...

I've got a Hornby class 24 set with wagons, controller and track. Looks in
good condition, has anyone any idea of a guide price I should put it on
Ebay? Are blue Hornby 24s rare?
James

I was hoping that some of you could list some of the cars one could
expect [plan for] on a Santa Fe "Fast Mail Express". If you could
include a few sources to purchase a specific car mentioned that'd be
most appreciated. Below are two examples that caught my attention. I am

Is anyone familiar with John Olsen's Jerome and Southwestern layout of
the 1980's?  That was THE layout that turned me on to model
railroading when I was a kid.  I have a book published by Kambalch
that shows the whoel thing from start to finish.  Olsen's talent was

Folks,
   Just received word from a friend that UP's licensing issue will
supposedly make the CBS Evening News Thursday night, 6:30PM Eastern.
Paul A. Cutler III

Re: [HO Scale] Train lengths
I have been limitring my planning to trains under 10 cars in length due
to the space requirements.
How are you able to handle a train that exceeds 8 feet in length?

Whinger - (noun) derogatory name for someone who knows more about a subject
than those who are easily pleased.  ;-)
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subject than those who are easily pleased.  ;-)

Our model railroad club rents a basement from an area business.  We were
asked to set up a Christmas display in the front window for the holidays.
We set up a small HO layout, set to run more or less continuously, with
periodic 15 min "rest" breaks.  Apparently we made a mistake in ...

I was looking at the images of the Roundhouse 50' reefer series in the
Walthers catalog. A visit to the MDC webpage proved useless. They
provide little information and no images of these cars.
Item #'s of interest: 3609, 3610, 3611, 3618