Model Forum / General / Railroads / February 2004

I'm building my first layout after years of collecting N-scale cars and
engines. It's a small 4x4 layout. There are 7 switches on the layout I've
selected from a book I picked up. I'm using Atlas code 55 track and picked
up one Atlas under-table switch machine to experiment with. Is ...

I have an new/unopened  Kato NW2  P/N: 37-116 (phase 2, painted for the SP
(Grey/red #1906)) that I originally bought to strip and repaint. After
listening to some of the pitfalls in stripping paint I thought I might ask
if anyone on the list here has a undecorated or Frisco painted ...

Has anyone here in Oz sighted the December issue of Model Rail yet? By my
reckoning it's a good 3 weeks late.
Cheers,
Allan Brown

Can anyone suggest a few builders of custom hand laid turnouts that they
could recommend? If they also have websites a link to them would also be
appreciated.
thanks

Okay, does anyone know of a place that sells locomotives that are DCC
equipped AND come with Micro Train magnetic couplers already
installed?  I just hate working on this stuff.

Has anyone out there got the HO TRIX UP caboose(s)? I bought one at the local
hobby store and I find it quite correct to the prototype. The only thing closer
that you could get would be brass. But you save a good hundred bucks with TRIX
opposed to brass. I've gone over the model ...

You can now look for depots by Rail Line.  You can see how many
Frisco depots I have, for example.  I hope this helps your
searches for the depots you are interested in.
This was a major project a long time coming.  Many thanks go to

When a teenager, I bought the 1st 6 of the British Rail Fleet Survey books -
when I was a student, my mum chucked them out with all the other "magazines"
that I'd left at home.  Any idea where I'd get replacement copies from? And
the rest (if any) of the series.  Is there a modern ...

In the August 2002 issue of Model Railroader there is an article on "cool
tools" including a corner clamp from Coffman Engineering. Does anyone know
where I can purchase such an item for an N-scale layout I've just started?
All of my Google searches come up empty.

Does anyone know if the annual CD's which Peco are now releasing are
provided in a useful format (i.e. PDF, Word or PostScript) or if they (as I
suspect) are somehow locked into a front-end program supplied on the disc,
making them totally useless. a.) on any other operating system, ...

I'm new at building my own rolling stock and have a rather basic
question.....In general, are freight cars painted a different color
underneath or inside?
I'm assembling a narrow-gauge box car and the instructions say to

Is there a new web address for lineside data sheets, for i have tried the
webone address and it don't seem top be there.
Michael

I have a Fleischmann HO train set in my shop window, a little 040
Fleischmann loco and a freightline diesel circulate most of the day with
carriages with A Frame signs on them.
I have just bought some second hand flex track. I would like to give all the

Package 1
FLEISCHMAN TRACK
45 lenghths flex track
Enough set track for 5 full circles

I am looking at having MG tower produced in N Scale. I have posted this
question to see what kind of demand there is and it looks like the project
is a go. MG tower or "Mid Grade" is located halfway between Altoona and
Gallitzin and was built by the PRR in WWII to handle the wartime ...