Model Forum / General / Railroads / December 2004

People here have been able to help me find things before, ok, now I'm
looking for a Roundhouse Climax, and the Roundhouse Box cab diesel.
Kit or built, anyone got one?  
Email rDOTbuegeATsbcglobalDOTnet after making the normal corrections.

I am working on a photo collage on the life of my grandfather and one
story he tells is traveling on a U.S. Army train from the east coast
out to a base in Colorado during the Second World War.
Does anyone know where I can find some pictures of troop transport

Just picked up on another mailing list that David Jenkinson died
yesterday, Tuesday.
Jim.

Can someone help me out with this?  Found in Raleigh, NC, in 2004, in a
private fenced lot.  Couldn't get close enough to see any reporting marks.
http://www.castlegraphics.com/graphic/transportation/rail/unk_passenger_car_rale
igh_nc_apr14_2004.jpg
What original railroad and car, ...

 Well,I put all the great advice I received here together and headed to
the specialty shop for my C-tree lay-out.I ended up buying a Spectrum
Freight set(with the 2-8-0,DDC-ready Baldwin) 6 ft.extra EZ track and a
couple extra cars.Total was $142. which was about 100 more than I

Picture of Hornby's new 'Stepney' loco:-
http://www.ehattons.com/images/products/r9069_1.JPG
Just in time for Xmas.
(kim)

On the previous layout I had a Hornby TT with the motor kit. It used the
good old loco motor, X04 was it? But the motor was mounted on the plastic
surround and for that or some other reason it was horribly noisy. This time
round I have a Peco TT, with the Frizinghall motorising ...

I am designing a layout with 22in and 24in radius because the
recommended minimum for a US 4-8-2 was 22in. However I am having
extreme difficulty designing a fiddle area as the 22in minimum doesn't
give me enough room for a fiddle area.

Although I don't have a DCC layout I've been reading the various DCC threads
with some interest and as it happens the layout I've got involved in at the
club will be DCC (shock, horror!) so I do need to gen up on the subject.
One question arising from the current thread has sprung ...

Having been made to wait for certain wagons to be released from the major
R-T-R manufacturers I have decided to have some custom made out of White
metal , resin and brass.
What wagons is everyone out there in newsgroup land waiting to be made and

I've not posted here for awhile, but I've become more and more alarmed
at what appears to be attempts to "gig" the model railroaders for all
that they've got by some of the big name companies.  Maybe there are
still some reps from the model rr companies on here that can speak to

try something new...
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/ModelRailroading
100% troll free (hopefully)

I am starting to make one of the new Branchline passenger car kits and I am
interested in how other modelers have installed lighting in the cars.  Any help
or ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,

Help,
Does anyone know where I can get instruction sheets and replacement
parts for some MDC Ho scale Steam Locomotives. I purchased a few
second hand ones and most of the plastic additions require replacement

Just to let you know well in advance, after our recent successful show, we
have booked our next show for the 5th November 2005 at
Sherwood Community Centre
Mansfield Road