Model Forum / General / Railroads / December 2004

Simple tip of the day......
For those who have cussed up a storm at trying to remove hot glue gun residue strands.....simple fix:.... Use a blower type heat gun. It will immediately melt strands causing them to literally disappear in seconds with out damage to project in work.. ...

I've been thinking about the scales used in
model railways and was trying to come up with
just how many there are.
The following is what I have come up with from memory

My guess is that they will announce a class 60 diesel and a totally new
class 37!
No new steam though apparently, bugger.

Ho folks,
Is it possible to add your own lighting to the Bachmann 37/0, as in is
there access for light to get through to the dots on the headcode boxes
for adding lignting.  I have'nt got round to buying one yet so I thought

Does anyone no how to remove the factory numbers from lima class 26 and 27
models? I have tried white spirit and meths but they do not work.
Brendan Kilgallon

Would anyone know where I could get O-gauge brass rail   I think it would be
called code-200  or code-250            tia   mick

With DCC do you still need polarity switches when setting up or converting
layouts with reversing loops? I am considering it possible the electronics
could read the polarity changes and instantly switch the drive polarity to
allow continuous travel around a reversing loop and ...

I have been working on cleaning up a postwar Lionel set that belongs to a
friend. Some testing on the model 1033 transformer revealed the DC signal
that is overlayed on the AC track output, to operate the whistle tender, was
all over the place. I have ascertained from much ...

Just looking at piccies of these machines on Hattons website.
As I'm a DCC'er, I number my locos viz: class/last 2 digits.
Shame then that both these have the same last 2 digits.
I could probably renumber one of them but knowing what a ham-fisted person I am, I'd probably mess it ...

Since Trainman9 likes to send harrassing e-mails then stop mail from the person
he harrasses I will respond the following way and then drop the subject.
In a message dated 12/19/2004 11:02:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,
trainman9@aol.com writes:

Does anyone know how to reprogram these devices?

Seems to me I remember a suggestion for a common substitute for Lionel smoke
fluid for locomotives.
Anyone remember what that might be?  (I half think it may have been castor
oil...)

Does anyone know of a good online resource for trackplans of UK
stations?
I'm looking for a compact urban terminus that can handle six Mk1s and a
4-6-0, ex-LMS (pref. ex-MR).

There was a thread here recently about short passenger cars and one
response about Life Like company's short cars appearing in a "Train
Line" or "City Line" or what ever, train sets. I have lost those
messages. I had written a response question, but there was a post

First post here.
I am 47 YO and just getting interested in model railroad.  As many
newcomers, I am trying to determine which scale to start off with.
After some weekend "googling", I was leaning toward N Scale because I