Model Forum / General / Railroads / January 2005

I was wondering if anyone could identify the model train on my website
http://www.the-heathers.nildram.co.uk/Train/
It is live steam, fueled by methylated spirits
I'm told it belonged to my grandfather with places it in the first half of

I have a book showing a side view of the end of a milk tank, I think its a 6
wheel tanker. You can just about read MMB, which I think is milk marketing
board? Any one have more details on these tankers? What was the milk
marketing board? Where were the depots, what liveries were ...

Hi again all
Hope your Chrissie was brilliant and if you got socks and jocks you exacted
the appropriate revenge on the giver
NB: forgive my clunkiness in these questions - am only just now returning to

Before I start looking into writing my own driver, I'd like to check to
see if anyone else has written a driver for Rail Driver's 'Desktop Train
Cab Controller': http://www.raildriver.com/rdcontrols/desktop.php
I'm guess that since this is basically a sort of 'game controller' sort

For someone returning to Railway Modelling, and wanting to dabble while I
sort out just where I want to go, would the Bachmann DCC controller be a
good place to start, or not?
I am on a somewhat limited budget and generally more of a modeller than

Does anyone know how to cure coupler droop?  I'm trying to set up my Kadee
couplers using a Kadee height gauge, but I have trouble with them drooping,
mostly with locomotives, but occasionally with freight cars.
Jeff

For anybody who is interested, Class 50 names actually in use by the RN when
the locos were named were as follows:
DREADNOUGHT (Nuclear submarine); SUPERB (Nuclear submarine), TEMERAIRE (RN
School of Physical Training, Portsmouth); ST VINCENT (Accommodation Centre,

Have just installed lighting units from Express Models into a Lima 156. The
instructions from EM say to disable directional control, then all lights
(head day/head night/markers/tail) are all individually controlled.
Thing is I want to keep directional control.

Greetings all.  Looking at a layout article I saw the term fast clock.  Would
someone be kind enough to tell me what this is?
Thanks.
Dale

I have been busy drawing up new track plans, and here's what'cs ready for
you:
3' by 5' layouts for O, O27, Atlas O and RealTrax
http://www.thortrains.net/marx/35dex1.html

Hi again
Did the Battle of Britain Class of locomotive ever have black livery?
thanks
Steve

I sometimes see boxed sets of six Kato UP passenger cars listed on
auction sites.  Are these the same cars that Kato is presently selling
as sets A, B and C?  Or are they based on some other prototype and just
painted in Union Pacific colors?

http://i13.ebayimg.com/01/i/02/ea/3d/7d_3.JPG
Can you identify any popular model equipment is this depiction?
Rob

A couple more questions from a beginner in DCC.....
Just converted one of my EM J39s. Cut away chassis at front and added a
lentz LE0511A. Now it was never a good runner, but in DC I used one of
Stewart Hine's 'Pentrollers' and with feedback, its slow running was