Model Forum / General / Railroads / January 2005

About* to fit lights to Bachy 08.
Yellow and red lights each end.
Q is:
As I stand in the middle of the track looking at the 08,

As copper oxidises to a rust colour and remains an excellent conductor, I
was wondering why track wasn't made in copper or copper plated....
There must be a drawback somewhere.
Steve

I've been looking for a listing of currently available Romford
driving wheels with diameters and numbers of spokes per
diameter, but have failed to find the information - can anyone
direct me to such info please?

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different addresses. Putting your home address or mailing address on
the internet can be risky, but through PayPal all you have to provide
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We are a happily married and loving 30 and 27 year old husband and wife
living in NW Indiana.  Our dream is to adopt a child, but we have not
been able to due to the incredible and unforseen expenses.
Currently, we have a small savings or as we call it "Adoption Fund" but

Just got a post regarding memory wire, thanks!
Looked up a few things and it appears this stuff expends when heated to 70
deg C - therefore it needs to have current passed through it in order for it
to work. Seems ok depending on how much and how hot I guess. But then it got

Can someone please let me know if/when ground mounted illuminated signals
were intro'd into the UK? In fact, could you let me know when illuminated
signal first appeared and did they operate concurrently with semaphores?
Thanks

for modeling the Rock Island in HO scale i´m looking for original yard or
track plans from the RI. Does anybody knows a source in the www for stuff
like that?
Thanks

I just looked at a Broadway Limited road diesel displayed in my local hobby
shop.  Price about $240.
That's about double the price of many other similar models from other
makers.

Have UP,  black or grey and Reo Grande to trade. All are Mint in the box
Lionel.

Since Steve got things going with the what was the most beautiful locomotive
thread I'm interested to see what you guys think are the most ugly. Not that
we don't love those less then beautiful loco's anyway. Here's my list so far
and all butt ugly.

Could someone tell me what the radii of the two sections of these
turnouts are? Thanks in advance.

Still playing around with ideas for my new layout.
I've got space at one end of around 6'x2' to which I can allocate additional
space of 6 - 8' x 1' (18" dropping to 1' or thereabouts) approx running off
one of the long sides to make a "T".

What are OO/HO modellers using as points motors these days? Does one still
have to buy proprietary products or are there small 12 volt solenoids
available that do the job successfully, yet less expensively?
Thanks