Model Forum / General / Railroads / November 2004

Finally building my first real N scale layout and need a good online
Canadian
source of  modular track who will package deal on what I need? Thanks!
Andy

Santa brought me a brand new 50 last year but as I didn't have any track at
the time due to children, house improvements etc etc I have been unable to
run it until now. I took it out of the box last night and placed it on the
track. It works very poorly indeed! I have 2 old H&M ...

Finally building my first real N scale layout and need a good online
source of  modular track who will package deal on what I need? Thanks!
Fritz  

My son is going to be 4 years old in January.  He wants his first
"real" train for Christmas.  I was going to buy him an "O" scale
Lionel train but, I hate the look of both their regular and FasTrack
track.  I found some Atlas O track that I liked but when I called the

A recent issue of "Railroad Model Craftsman" (12/04, page 99) included
an article showing early 36ft 1900 cattle cars. The RUTLAND" truss rod
car caught my interest. The article said these are available at the
Furano & Camerlengo Line. I can't find that mfr/retailer anywhere

Salvé,
I was reading the series of posts on mehano ho,  and am curious as to if
there are ready to run ho models of british  locos and rolling stock, I cant
think of any other than the Fleischman Warship and coaches, are there any

Test

I own one model railroad book: Realistic Model Railroad OPERATION by
Tony Koester. I have read it from cover to cover many many times. It has
been a great teaching tool as I slowly draft a layout on paper. I would
very much like to purchase a number of similar books, but I need ...

Salvé
To my suprise I found out that some early US diesel locos were exported to
the UK, apart from the ww2 wartime steam locos I knew of the Midland
Railways import before ww1 of some (shortlived) baldwin steam loco's, I am

I am starting a new layout and need quite a bit of flex track.  I was
looking at my Walthers catalog and found a variety of manufacturers.  But I
am wondering what the differences are other than price.  I think I want Code
83 unless someone can tell me why Code 100 would be ...

I would like to hear from folks on how often they change their layouts.  Do
you change your layouts because they don't live up to your expectations? Or
because you just want to try something else?
I am relatively new to model railroading.  I got into the hobby four years

With all the stupid bickering, name calling, politics and whatever, on this
news group, try sharing something of value. See a dead tree I modeled at;
http://www.rrscenery.com
See, some of you knuckle heads got me going. Are you happy now?

I have been trying to contact Phoenix Paints for 2 weeks now, I know that
they have been handing over the managership., but that was to be done before
the 8/11/04. You would think that they would respond to the e-mails because
the business has to continue. Is there a secret address ...

For layouts where the baseboard is made of a number of units and is
frequently disassembled, what is the best ways of dealing with the track
which crosses the join?
Mark Thornton

Does anyone have any experience of the Bachmann starter DCC set?  I am
thinking of taking the plunge and I find the price of the Bachmann kit
to be attractive.
I understand that it is NMRA compatable, and so will operate with things