Model Forum / General / Railroads / May 2005

Anyone else having problems seeing the C-Rail website? All I get is a
line across the page about 5/6 of the way up the screen.

I recently bought two brass Branchlines kits from a friend, they are
assembled but not painted yet. As they were assembled in 1993 they must be
very dirty ( fingerprints, etc. )
What is the best ( safest way ) to clean before I start airbrushing them ?

With reference to my post about dumping my old freight cars and buying
KADEE brand freight cars w/KADEE #5  couplers, because I'm 78 and my
eyes are bad and my hands are not too steady, I found INTERNET
TRAINS.COM  and bought two KADEE brand freight cars w/KADEE # 5's.  One

Found this in newly announced locomotives:
140 - Athearn Inc
99176   Diesel AMD-103 Powered - Walthers Exclusive Model -- Amtrak(R) #7
(High Stripe)    HO      86.98

Does anybody know were i can still get athearn freight car kits.  Would
appreciate any help thanks

The Milwaukee daily newspaper had a recent article about the Model Railroad
Club of Milwaukee, which was founded in 1934 by such notables in the hobby as
Al Kalmbach and Bill Walthers.
"In The World of Model Trains, Time Stops Dead In Its Tracks"

I'm getting ready to make a decision about switch stands for a large
layout I'm building.  My early research hasn't been thrilling.  I'm
building my own turnouts and using Tortoise to drive them, but I'd
like to have a prototypical looking stand that will show turnout

I'm dumping all (9) of my freight cars, with all different couplers,
and coupler heights and want to start fresh w freight cars w/kadee # 5
couplers built in.
I need a few sources where I can buy Kadee freight cars or any freight

where can I get 00 gauge spuds for narrow gauge projects
or drive units of a similar 4 wheel arrangement?
thanks Mike

In my preparation to move home to England, I have decided to sell some Locos
and rolling stock not really needed.
Anyway, all my Locos are fitted with Digitrax decoders and Kadee couplings.
Any thoughts as to selling them so equipped, or would it be better to put

Can anyone assist me with the geometry of the Peco Small Radius Electrofrog
point (00), that is, how does it compare to the set-track point? I'm
building a staging area and the space available for the pointwork is a
little tight.

What colour were/are the roofs? CN boxcar brown (like the caboose's
body), or black?
And the underframe and running gear colour would be?
All infor appreciated.

Just thought i'd let people know about my experience at having a go at
doing some P4 trackwork.  I finally got to grips with Templot (have a
look on google if you're interested) and found it a very interesting and
rewarding procedure.

When laying 00 track side by side,what is the distance between the sleepers
for this scale.
Thanks for any help.

Anyone hereabouts built a layout/tracks where narrow gauge lines actually
cross standard gauge ones? In essence is it possible/practical to build such
trackwork, how difficult is it and does anyone know of any on-line examples?