Model Forum / General / Railroads / July 2004

I've been doing a fair amount of research here lately on the design of my
next home layout, but a tangent question that came to mind was the why for a
narrow gauge?
I can't think of any good reasons off the top of my head, so I will put it

Well, I took out the old magnifying goggles and took a good look at Kato's
Golden White LEDs. Sure enough, one side has a flattened spot on the base! I
compared it to some Sunny Whites and found the same flat spot on the "-"
lead! Thanks everyone for helping me to come up with this ...

I think I have a pretty good mixture of Depots including a couple of
different people this time.  .  They include a painting of
Springfield’s Frisco Depot painted in 1976 that may not be in
circulation much.

   Well I bought a athearn model last week and I put it together and got
out my airbrush to give it a quick weathering job this weekend, but ran into
some problems. I use the floquil water based paint. I haven't had my paint
out for a couple of month and I made sure to mix it up ...

Hi all;
I'm new to the group so cheers to all, and i'm pretty new to Model
Railroading.
I have a quick question.

Just curious as to how many of you will be going to Seatlle next week
for the NMRA national?  See you there.  Art Fahie.

Been reading the various dcc freds with some interest without going down the
various merits and demerits path again could anyone enlighten moi - a total
no nothing re dcc whether I understand the following correctly and set me
right on a few questions?

Hope know one minds, I have a Heljan class 47 for sale on ebay limited
edition called Windsor Castle in EWS livery.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5907853252&ssPageName=STRK:
MESE:IT
If your not interested sorry to have bothered you.

I was using the Walthers chain link fence kit to fence in a small
propane dealership on my layout. I ended up 9 posts short of enclosing
the area. I still have the rails and mesh, I'm just short posts.
Walthers is out and I haven't been able to fins another kit anywhere.

I am after a non powered bogie for above, any ideas where i could get one
Colin

As I live in the South West I was thinking of visiting Pecorama in Beer
Devon as it is about an hours drive from my home.
Has anyone visited the Pecorama and can they give me the highlights.
I have looked at the web site, all the same personal reflections of a

 I got an email from Kalmbach yesterday with some of the new
announcements - I see that Intermountain is going to do FP7's!  I went
to their web site, but there is nothing there yet.  Has anyone at the
show seen them?  I hope they do a standard Ph1 unit with all of the

Anyone know what happend to Bill's friendly train shop in Randolph MA?
Dick Bryant

Does anyone know of a suitable modern era Fuel Depot made in OO gauge.
Emma

This is the only means I have of letting folks know quickly that there must
be a sale for our 15 anniversary. I also need to get out of here in early
July and need cash for getting my 75 Merc ready for a long trip. The best
way to help my cause is to help you with a better price. ...