Model Forum / General / Railroads / March 2004

Disposing of much of my N-scale collection on EBay, this week's
listings include a lot of New Haven locos that I custom painted
myself.
Auctions end mostly within the next 24 hours.

Hello everybody. I just recieved my mail-ordered Bachmann N class loco...and
it wobbles like a duck as it rolls down the track....I can't see an obvious
cause...is this a common problem with this paticular loco model that I'll
have to live with or is there a fix for it.

For the sake of a good arguement, and in no particular order, here are my
top 5 as seen by an (Aussie) outsider:
1. John Ahearn (Madder Valley)
2. Cyril Freezer

MNP and Walthers are now selling a "new" motorized track cleaning car. It
looks as though there are two horizontal cleaning pads hanging below the car
which are motorized (spinning).
Has anyone used one of these new gadgets, and do they work as advertised? Or

Any votes?

Though I enjoy building from kits, you rarely find high quality suburban
housing kits available.  I've done DPM and Walthers kits, even copied them from
scratch, but that's about it.  I'm trying to put together a significant number
of houses - a neighborhood.

What gauge wire should I use for turnouts and feeder lines.

I was watching a re run of tonights news and right as they went off the
air they mentioned a train derailment on the Trinity River Bridge.
Well, it's only four miles away, so I drove up there....The Trinity
River Bridge is a high traffic three pier bridge about one hundred feet

I'm looking to kit out my Bachmann / Mainline / Dapol Wagon fleet with
Kadees.
The bachmann ones with NEM pockets were straightforward, #19s being Ideal
for me. # 18's would have meant cutting off the ornamental coupling hook to

Just glimpsed some pictures on the news concerning the storms we saw here in
the southwest section of the country. They showed pictures from the air of a
train wreck due to washed out roadbed. It looked like a string of automax
cars scattered like toy trains. At first I thought they ...

Am I the only one offended by the cartoon in the latest Railfan?
Railroad engineers and Teamsters making a railroad pres sign a
contract since he is wearing concrete shoes.  The bags are labeled
Hoffa Cement!

J>jeff@thebinks.com (Jeff Binkley) wrote in message
J>news:<35.278071.1380@thebinks.com>...
J>> SC>Jeff Binkley wrote:
J>> SC>> You must be a liberal democrat.

She who must be obeyed, thinks my 24 Locos is a bit much, even when I only
run 3 or 4 at a time.
However I don't agree (now there's a surprise)
How much is enough? How many do you guys have? and how can I sneak more in

   I have a couple of the older style Pullmans, a 1st class parlour R223
and a 3rd class parlour brake R233. I wondered what the chances of still
finding any of these new anywhere are. I phoned round a few dealers and mail
order but no luck. Has anybody noticed any of the older ...

I am looking for one or two internet sites where I can look up information
on Roadnames or acronyms. Where I can input an acronyms and find out the
full road name. The second site I am looking for is one that I can input a
town name and find out what railroads serviced that town.