Model Forum / General / Railroads / January 2005

I have 25 recent issues of Model Railroader that I am disposing of. Free to
anyone who will pay the postage.
                               Jake Warner

I have an Atlas Commander and have purchased my second decoder it being a
NCE like my first decoder and with both decoders I have had a lot of problem
programming them. It took a long time to program the address into them. Is
this a normal thing? Also, could it be that I am ...

Is it possible to easily get flanged centre wheels and fit them to locos?
Also, what was the purpose of doing the un-flanged situation?
thanks
Steve

Any comments on the Athearn new SD45T-2?  I picked up my first (SP1919
bloody nose) on Saturday. IMHO the thing is great.  Missing air hoses
and windshield wipers but everything else appears to be there.

I don’t know what to say, or what excuse to use, but I got informed
this evening that most all my W list depot image links were broke.
They have now been fixed.  I’ve downloaded a broken link checker I can
use on my server to check the rest of my links.  I’m really sorry

Hey folks, take a look and order one up, and if you want to see anything in
particular in a kit form, then send let us know via the online form what you
want and if you can get a plan or drawing to us then we will produce it, in
any scale.

I retrieved my old Lionel set that I got for Christmas in 1946 from
storage
and set it up for my grandson.  I noticed for the first time that the
front and rear "guide" wheels are mounted slightly off-center - in

New to the hobby, trying to restore my father's pre-WWII Lionel-Ives
locomotive.  I disassembled what is left of the loco and have carefully
cleaned everything and placed the order for a few misc replacement parts,
like drive wheels.  I'm starting to put it all together to be ready ...

I'm building a Comet replacement chassis for my Airfix 4F 0-6-0, using Comet's
recommended Mashima 1620 motor together with their GB1 gearbox fitted to the
centre axle with the motor mounted vertically into the Firebox.
Trying the motor/gearbox assembly for fit with the body, it ...

Does anybody have a drawing of a Midland ground frame hut they could send me
or direct me to.
The only reference of such a drawing I have is in MRN Jan.1964, page 189 but
I certainly don't have the magazine.

I am looking for a new or very good condition second-hand  Denver Caboose LGB #40755
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I am working scratchbuilding on a yard tower with a spanish tile roof.  I
found some Spanish tile at the Plastruct website.  But I can't tell from the
pictures how this really looks.  My other thought was to build it piece by
piece from half round tubing.

For the height of the table do you include the thickness of the styrofoam? In my
case 2". I was going to make the bench height 46", but with the styrofoam it
would be 48 which seems very high.
Thanks

Hi can anyone tell me the difference between these cars
ie window config,i know one is lst and the other 2nd class
tia Peter

I recently acquired two late 40's eraly 50's lionel )27 steamies. I don't
have any background in Lionel except for a transformer I have been repairing
for a friend.
I don't know anything about the E-unit except that it exists and changes