Model Forum / General / Railroads / January 2005

We now know Hornby's intentions for better or worse (better in my case with
the Stanier coaches presumably to the same high standard as the Gresleys).
Does anyone know anything about Bachmann's? Or when they might be telling
anyone?

This weekend, there are two train shows I can attend.
The Great American Train show is being held in Indianapolis.
The Great Midwest Train Show is being held in Wheaton IL.
I live equa-distant from each one.

In January 1999 Railway Modeller..... apparently made by UK company AUTOCOM
LTD.
Does anyone have an email address for this firm please? I tried to find one
but it appears they may either be out of business or not connected to the

Is anybody here interested in trading train pics? I have several good images
of german steam, electric, diesel and streetcar action, and i´m interested
in north american trains.
When interested, contact me via email please...

There was some discussion a while back about suggestive names carried
by A3 pacifics (which as most people know where named after racehorses:
see http://www.winwaed.com/rail/LNER/locos/A/racehorses.shtml). Among
those mentioned were "Gay Crusader", "Merry Hampton" and "Call Boy".

Hornby list their 08 as £55, which I guess will mean it will retail for
around £40-43. I thaught it was going to have working lights, but it is
described as lamp and pipe work detail, which means they have included blobs
of plastic or metal moulded to the required shape, not actual ...

    Happy New Year TYA
Santa bought me a nice new Hornby R2382 Black 5 (Weathered)
loco for Xmas and I am really pleased with it's performance. Makes my
old fleet of Triang/Hornby stuff look a bit past it.

Anyone?

Does anyone out there know of a good online source for traditional Lionel
style, 3-rail, O gauge track at bulk/discounted pricing?
I'm looking to build a fair sized (12' x 6' L-shaped) old fashioned,
care-free, rugged, fun-to-run layout to relieve stress from my other

After some testing of the circuits on my web page some minor changes are
recommended. I have removed 2 diodes and changed capacitor values on the
power supply circuit so the maximum track voltage is above 12V. The original
circuit resulted in a 10V maximum. On the block circuit ...

I have a good sized HO DCC layout, mostly steam in transitsion era and
need train crews/engineers to operate. There will be no cost to any of
my train crews. I am on the Crawford Airport which is 10mi S of
Hotchkiss off Hiway 92. Hotchkiss is abt 20mi E of Delta which is 30 mi

At the risk of starting something:
I was talking to a co-conspirator last weekend (spelt f-e-l-l-o-w
m-o-d-e-l-l-e-r) about the colour schemes used by NSWGR over the years.
We agreed that the red they generally used was called Deep Indian Red.

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different addresses. Putting your home address or mailing address on
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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

Any one seen any 2005 catalogues yet?
I guess we wont see Bachman's fairy tale book till Feb, but the Hornby one
is supposedly out this week according to Pat Hammonds sight.
My local retailer went to Margate yesterday to see the 2005 range, or at