Model Forum / General / Railroads / February 2005

For anyone who's not got this years Catalogue yet. Bachmann have updated
their website with the 'new for 2005' information.

How easy/hard is it to convert the Spectrum On30 0-4-2 to DCC control
and what sort of system works the best.
I also have the Spectrum On30 Shay and want to get the Climax as well.
Finally does the headlight/led need an extra resistor/changing on the

Recently someone mentioned in this group that in HO scale you could
calculate the speed of your train by some particular calculation. I think it
required measuring the distance that the train traveled and dividing by the
time.

I recently got some of the new Kato UP passenger cars to go with the
earlier [1990's]set, and I found that they are darker Armour yellow than
the earlier cars. Have my first cars faded, or are they using a darker
color on the recent set? The new ones are a closer match for the

http://www.backingblair.co.uk/london_underground/
A bit off topic, but made me laugh....
Rob

If this has been asked before I apologize for the duplicate question.
We are in the process of building our new club layout and would like to
use photos printed to HO scale for some buildings. Are there any
websites that deals with this or does anyone have some images for free

Which is the difference between the Bachmann Spectrum and the Walthers
EMC Gas Electric Doodlebugs?
Which is better?
Year First built?

CTC Hobbies/Imports
13701 N. Umpqua Hwy, Roseburg, OR 97470
http://www.ctchobbies.com/
Are they any good?

This might be a duplicate because the BT Internet news servers are not
quite up to the task apparently!
I'm just putting together a signal box design in SSI
(www.gppsoftware.com)

This model has been available in Australia for a while now - anyone
reworked it to represent one of the Wolgan Valley 70-ton locos?

Hello, I have uncovered about 20 copies of this magazine from Number 0
upwards from the eighties, whilst emptying my late father's house. I was
wondering if MRJ is still published?

Does anyone know what services (i.e. what locos or coaches) would have run
from Norton Fitzwarren up the Minehead and Barnstaple branches around the
mid 1960s including any regular-ish freight services. I have found that
there was a King class Paddington to Penzance service ...

We got quite a lot of track for brio (some bought, some given) and are
trying to get some decent layouts. However, it all seems a little random. We
start with a good idea and then have to botch it to get the track to
complete. Is there any help online? Perhaps a newsgroup of people ...

I noticed on a recent posting a link to a Japanese railway station web cam.
This set me wondering if there are any web cams on our own stations that can
be viewed.
Bob

I am selling the domain name: "LionelTrainMart.com".  If you sell
Lionel trains the benefits of owning this name are obvious.
The price is 1200.00 Euros (or about $1556.00 US dollars).  The
transfer charge I think is about $6.95 (US dollars) or maybe less.