Model Forum / General / Railroads / February 2004

SCENARIO: A unit train appears onto a layout from hidden staging. It's
being hauled by a three engine consist of roadnames foreign to the
layout. The train yard which hosts hidden staging arrivals is a large
interchange whose purpose is to accept individual cars from distant

Because of all the rubbish going on about finding a new home for the
Fareham club and trying to protect Fareham Community Centre as a whole
it seems to me that the only times I get to take part in this group
over the last year or so is when I have a real problem to solve.  This

Anyone know of sources showing the livery of BR era Ferry opens (the
tube and the eight plank open)
I have the details for the markings but not where they were applied
I have the ferry CCT presflo and lomac sorted and found a photo of an

Green Deltics and Tampers arrived in stock today.

Can anyone recommend any model railway shops in the London (UK) area
which stock US outline models.
TIA
Rich

Hello;
I'm looking for recommendations for an electric train set for my
7-year-old niece.  She asked for one and described one she'd seen
somewhere that had stations for loading and unloading logs.

I have a problem. I need to build / make a Isolating piece of track on a slight bend (therefore cannot use the standard hornby etc. item.
Im using 00 gauge mixture of Hornby and Peco track.
The Isolator needs to go on a Hornby R606.
ANy ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I pre-ordered a total of 14 cars from Trainworld of the new run of Atlas
23,500 gallon tank cars. I received 7 of them about two or three weeks ago
and all of them were the odd-numbered units I ordered (e.g., 1630-1, 1631-1,
1632-1, 1633-1), but still haven't received any of the ...

trainfred on Ebay is the infamous
Fred Becker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do your self a favor and
Do not Deal with this Person!

I have what I think is an Athearn 50' exterior post boxcar (I bought
it without a box).  It is oxide red and numbered 57869.  "Norfolk and
Western" is spelled out in a sans-serif font and there is no herald.
There is no readable date on the data on the car.  I'm curious about

What are they? How do they work? Are they any good?

I have just put in the floor plans for the "railroad" alcove.
I have two plans and cannot decide which plan to go with.
One (the island table) allows for continuous running, the other is point to
point, unless I "dog-bone" it.

Anyone out there have a string of these cars?  I have four of them,
and cannot keep them on the rails for the love of pete.  They have
Micro-Trains couplers.  
I tried adding half an ounce of weight to the interior, 1/4 ounce

Time to get back to the trains.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3172870716&category=484
This would be the PS 5277 Cu Ft Exterior Post cars and representative of a
lot purchased by the Frisco in the early (?) 1970s.

I have, surplus to needs, a Bachmann Spectrum 'HO' Plasser tamping machine
(motorised) and a Bachmann Spectrum 'HO' OWB 10 with crane - also motorised.
Both are in excellent / boxed condition, having only been removed from their
boxes for photographic purposes. These are NOT ...