Model Forum / General / Railroads / February 2005

I just started to build an N-Scale layout with Unitrack.  I love the
Unitrack, it works great.  I'd like some ides for securing it to my
foam board without glue.  It doesn't seem like glue would work well,
since it is basically hollow under the unitrack.  Is there another way

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Kadee couplers were a quantum leap in terms of realism from the horn-hook
couplers, but their size is not true to prototype by being way too large.
Why has the hobby not evolved to use a more realistic HO coupler in terms of
size?

Greetings all!
Seems everyone wants to update at once!
Austrains has just announced that the H class will be included in the T
class run, still on time for delivery in September.  There will be 3 H

Group,
I was reading the latest issue of Trains abd there was a good article
written by an Australian fellow about the formation of Amtrak. I was
surpirsed to know that many railroads thought that Amtrak was to be a

I took the plunge and bought the Lenz Compact system and have so far fitted
two Lenz decoders, an LE1024 to a Heljan 47 and an LE1035 to a Bachmann
Warship and I am impressed by their performance.
I now have the long slog (and not inconsiderable expense!) of buying and

lima 26 for sale mint green boxed (never used)
bought several years ago for proposed O guage layout
lima 4F as above mint brand new boxed
also a lima 26 used condition no box

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Does anyone know what is outputted of the I/O port on the buchmann DCC
controllers?
Thanks Michael

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Practical question.
On the layout I was reading about tlast night they once again modelled an
ash pit on the loco siding.
From a practical point how did they empty these pits, did some guy have to

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To me, the most annoying aspect of our current market in Australia is the
way certain manufacturers who produce high-quality but also highly-marketted
(highly-strung?) models refuse to sell them through regular retail channels.
It's happened with Austrains, and in a way I can ...

Slowly but surely I am converting everything to Kadee coupling, the locos
are all done as is some rolling stock.However, after converting some Bachman
MK 1's it struck me as they are going to be a fixed rake, all I needed to do
was put Kadees at each end (for auto uncoupling) and ...

  I just purchased a Walthers Pullman Standard 10-5 sleeper in Canadian
Pacific colors.  It comes with a little bag of bright stainless steel
grabirons and instructions to drill out holes in in the carbody, and
secure the grabs with ACC.  "Grabirons may be left bright to ...