Model Forum / General / Railroads / September 2004

Because of ill health I am no longer able to look after my Rail Collection
of Literature, rather than have it dumped I would prefer someone to take
over these Notes , they are old but still readable,many thanks.
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I have a vintage Marklin HO Train Set from early 1950's from Germany.
This include Starter Set CE 807/3 with E6302 Engine, Pr 3600 W, 3601 EK.
All is in order of function, complete with boxes, manuals, oil.
You could check the pictures at :

I'm hope someone can help me.
I'm assembling a Walther's F40ph that I've painted in the Via Rail scheme.
I've made it as proto-typical as possible.... there is one part that came
with the kit that I can't figure out where it belongs....  the part is

I am desperately looking for the Kibri Dattenfeld church structure kit
[Walthers 405-57154, Kibri 50th Anniversary Model Kits].  I have tried
most of the online dealers.  Does anyone have an idea where I might find
it?  harrym

The current range of Hornby points which as i understand it use nickel
silver rails  and the new type point motor(looks like a Peco to me)
Can anyone tell me if the previous range of  points which used the point
motor that clipped on the side were made in nickel silver, I have been

I know it sounds like an off topic question but isn't... promise :)
I used to have an old Casio QV10 (0.3meg pixels) that had a rather
good close up macro feature but my current snapshot digital camera
(Aiptek DV3100) is rather rubbish as its depth of field is rather

All,
despite some adverts that have appeared in the recent press the 2004 WFRM
show will NOT be going ahead, sadly this is a case of an over zealous helper
who has informed the press on our behalf and missed the fact that we have

Hi gang,
There's a railroad bridge near me with an extra set of rails that begin at a
point, flare out and run parallel within the outer tracks, and then return to a
point on the other side of the bridge.  

I am in the process of building my first layout. I'm living in an apartment
so I don't have a lot of space so I am building a 4x6 straight from the
Atlas book.
When I was at the hobby shop the other day, I saw some model aircraft on the

Re: ATSF [HO scale]
I was wonderfing if the F7A, the F3A, and the PA use the same B-unit.
Could I use the same B-unit and have it look close / reasonable?
I would be most interested in using the F7B with the PA if at all possible.

G'day Gang
This is the September 2004 Australian Railway Detail Photos (ARDP)
Update www.ardp.net
This update, there are another 9 photo sets, and a huge thank you to

I was happy to see that the Atlas forum is back online, but I can't use
it.  It won't accept either my user name or my password.  It won't let
me re-register because my e-mail address is already in their database.
And it won't send me my password because it won't take my user ...

I'm just starting to think about planning a layout so it's rather too
earlier to be thinking about materials, but:
What is Homasote? And what would an equivalent material be that's
available in Europe?

Guys.....anybody know of any lime oven kits on the market?
thanks
Gene