Model Forum / General / Railroads / February 2004

Who's a dope ..... and why am I? Guess who just sent a personal e-mail to
the wrong place? Sorry punters!
Cheers,
Allan Brown

I have just build a set of Silvermaz RUB Set cars, and I find the plastic
wheels are crap.I was wonder what size brass wheel to use in the Silvermaz
bogie sideframes.
Can anybody suggest a wheel size, say from the AR Kit series?

Tiny wireless colour tv cameras.
  www.specialistcameras.com    World wide delievery. Pal or Ntsc.

dr. d:
your phpPgAdmin version acts exactly as my older version does, as well
as psql command line when trying to create a table.
please try yourself to create a junk table in my database (cmitcham).

I am learning to paint undecorated units with my airbrush and currently have
a SD60 ready to be painted in CSX scheme. As far as masking has anyone used
the magic mask stuff where you paint it on and then your able to peel it off
when your done? How well does that work? Also what is ...

I am presently working on designing and building H0 scale train station
and after searching Walther's and doing some searches with Google I am
coming up empty.
Specifically I am mainly looking for:

Why couldnt this happen to me..
This guy brings in a box of train equipment and other goodies to sell
to the store. The store buys the lot for an amount less than $400 (my
understanding is the amount is well under $200).

Lionel Train Set, c. 50-60s, Exc
This 1950-60s Lionel Train Set is in excellent condition. It has the
Locomotive and 5 different cars. It includes train, track, transformer,
booklets and many accessories. The set includes the Steam Locomotive Engine

Does anyone have any info about locomotive headlights at the turn of the
century? (1900, that is).  When did they start using electric lighting?  Which
types of housings were used for the different types?  I'm modeling 1910 and I
thikk a lot of changing/development was going on.

...  I'm getting frustrated.   After buying 100 pieces of flex
I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it (from Code 83)   It seems VERY
flimsy, and when I'm creating very long curves the ties get crooked
and the ends get out of guage.  The "moving" rail doesn't seem to move

Okay, in the past year I've purchased 2 Roundhouse 2 truck shays. The first
one had a gear train that broke the axle gears after just a few hours of
running. I thought I had screwed something up when I installed the knuckle
couplers. Well, I noticed the second one waddled down the ...

DCC got you down?  Tired of the exhorbitant prices of RTR from China?
Mourning the death of the hobby as we know it?
Come back with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear when men of iron ran
trains of wood (and metal, and even that newfangled plastic)

Group, I've just finished painting a diesel with Weaver Scale Coat gloss black.
I bought a can of Scale Coat clear flat to overspray after aplying the decals.
I tested the flat on a boxcar and found it to be too flat for my taste.  Does
anybody make a satin clear finish?  The only ...

Nothing got shipped last week as I had a bad bout with a cold. Rain is
falling for now in the desert and predicted for the rest of the week so
please be patient will all the orders that you submitted.
As a result of this, a Campbell kit was constructed and can be seen on the

Anyone ever have a problem with these units vibrating over the rear truck after
DCC was installed? There are no obvious things wrong such as rubbing wires or
anything out of line. Ran well before decoder was installed.
Larry at Papas Trains