Model Forum / General / Railroads / July 2004

I think I have a pretty good mixture of Depots from several different
people this time.  This includes the first depot from Richard Napper.
He has a very nice collection he has been willing to share.  Karl
Sollmann is here with one and Gary Roe has several from his collection

http://www.amra.asn.au/
I tried to contact them via their website a couple of weeks ago & got no
response to date, but when I went back their tonight to try again I got a
DNS failure (can't find web site)

If you want some thing fast and need to know that the person on the other
end of the phone is telling the truth about things being in stock and wont
debit your credit card with out sending you any thing, then please call the
Signal box in Rochester. They are brilliant. I wanted some ...

I ran across this machine while I was looking around for some good CLP/CLF shots.
Does anyone have some large, that is, monitor screen size (1024X768 or thereabouts),
shots of this beast in the Aboriginal livery?
There has never been anything like that up here in the Northern ...

Can anyone suggest the titles/authors/publishers/etc. of any
books/manuals for the maintenance and (most important) repair of HO
electrical engines?
Thanks in advance.

I am an HO scale modeler. One thing I have always been picky about was how
"realistically" model trains could be operated. A few years back when Atlas
came out with their S series switcher I was in heaven. A locomotive that could
finally be operated without lurching ahead like a ...

                            Staff Notice
While the management sympathise fully with the dilemma of the England
supporters in the company, it has been noted that the attempts to fly
the flags attached to cars at half mast has been achieved by opening the

Does anyone have an email address for K-Line trains? Customer service
department?
Thanks

Really, I do.

I have placed a couple of pictures of the Electrotren HO scale STVA double
deck car carrier
on the home page of my website at
http://www.modern-image-model-rail.co.uk

Got some new cars today, and have been playing the truck/coupler switch game
this evening. I prefer metal wheels, but the Atlas wheelsets are too wide
for some trucks. Trying to change the trucks is a pain, too, because there
are three different bolster types/sizes in two brands of ...

Here I go again, with this one i can do No harm (i hope).
A BCW where can i find one to measure up and photgraph.
Thanks
Michael

I am looking for some help and hope somebody here can assist.
I need to purchase a Graham Farish 0-6-0 chassis for a kit I am building. I
know that the Farish part number was 1109 but does anybody know what the new
Bachmann number for the same item is?

Does anyone know if Kaydee make one of their coupling hooks(the ones
that look like minature Buckeyes) that would be an exact match for the
mounting on a Bachmann 158 or their 08's ? Basically the Bachmann
Coupler mouting looks like a square piece with a diamond shaped hole

This is a disaster only a personal injury lawyer could love.
3 Dead 45 injured in BNSF-UP collision
As noted, a BNSF and a UP freight collided in Southwestern Bexar
county, causing the spill of chlorine and amonium-nitrate. The