Model Forum / General / Railroads / January 2004

Please excuse this rather large post.
Also, I would ask forgiveness in posting to several inappropriate
newsgroups. I can assure you that this is an extremely rare event and will
not soon be repeated by me. If for no other reason than I do not want the

I just attached Kaddee 5 to a Pullman car as instructed on
http://www.grovenor.dsl.pipex.com/pullman.htm
but found that they are too high per the Kadee gauge. So I shimmed them down
with a piece of plasticard to the right height and at the same time brought

I am thinking about doing a layout based on a town in Missouri and would
like to have a Wabash Style HO Depot.  Are there any kits for such a thing?
Dave

I have one of the Walthers Ice House and Platform kits.  I need an
extension platform kit stated in the instructions, but according to my
LHS and the Walthers web site, it is no longer available.
Does anybody know where I can find one of the extension kits?

Freezing my Behind off at West Brompton waiting for a City District line
service I heard a loud rumble from behind me. Then, heading towards Clapham
junction (that's platform 2), came two class 73s coupled together. One was
running electric (lots of sparking around west Brompton) ...

Karls Kabuse will be there with a large selection of Brass in almost all
scales, HO,HOn3,O,N  and some miscellaneous.  stop by and check things out.    
        10q     karl of karls kabuse

Funny question from down under.
In Sydney standard practice appears to be that a train runs on the left
track when looking in the direction of travel in a situation where two
tracks exist.

Quick clarification:
If I use plastic, insulated, rail joiners at the end of a Walthers Code
83 switch [on the frog rails] and I simply provide power to the switch
from the single end using one pair of metal rail joiners,

Sorry if I have missed this.
Did anyone see the review in Febs Model Rail?
I have to admit that it showed me a few short comings with these locos!
I have the green one and yes a red buffer beam would have looked nice.

Ran across and interesting point in another thread.  The discussion
was the UP 4% for logo charge and it wound up that one poster thought
is was ok for "nerf" toy locos and Lionel locos to be charged that but
not a "model" UP boxcar such as those in HO.  Now, I used to model in

I have had lots of problems running my rake of 8 New Hornby Pullmans with
the couplings giving way and derailments.
However I ran a rake of 5 last night and sure enough they went for 2 + hours
without a problem. I am guessing then that the extra weight of the

Just had an email
www.heljan.dk

I have an Athearn unpowered B unit to go with my F3s and I want to replace
the plastic wheels with metal ones.  Does anyone have any recommendation for
wheels?... I like the Proto 2000 wheels for my rolling stock but they, of
course, are too small for the B unit.

Does anyone know of an online source for strip shingles used for
Scratch building?  My hobby shop has them back ordered and I can
always use more.  I'm looking for HO scale strip shingles (peel &
stick, lick & stick, glue & stick, whatever).

I'm after a track plan of a small to medium sized goods yard that will
permit some interesting shunting opportunities.  Anyone know of any web
links to good ideas?  I'm modelling in 4mm.
Cheers,