Model Forum / General / Railroads / June 2005

Does any body know of a price guide for model trains.  Say from
1935-1960.  O gauge.
Thank you,
JR

My local hobby shop sometimes asks for me to help on repairs that have them
stumped, and as a retired electrical engineer/nuclear submariner/hack
machinist, I've usually been able to help.  Last weekend, they asked me if I
would tackle a Rivarossi N-scale Big Boy that is ...

I've just come back from Pecorama [checking out their digital weekend -
all very interesting!] and saw a new model of a GWR Collet Goods in N
guage in a Peco box. I've not heard any rumours, so its come as a bit of
a surprise.

I was wondering if anyone has tips on the best way to model something
like the text across the lintel of a masonry building that is carved
(or cast) in the stone or concrete (typical for things like courthouses
or libraries and the like).  I'm working in H0 and would like to do

Today I received an email, ostensibly from Hornby. Not an unusual thing,
I am on their mailing list. This is about a model auction site, and just
as I was about to click the link, I noticed that the address in the
bottom toolbar was actually an ip address, rather than a name - ...

NO, not the LA Lakers!!
I am talking about the Great Lake Freighters.
I have an "Edmond Fitzgerald" style freighter. I know how they are loaded at
the ore docks.

Just checking to see if I'm doing this right.

Why try six posts when one will do ;-)
Back in the days when men were men and engines were black with "Lancashire
and Yorkshire" (Or at a pinch Great Western) painted on the side signalling
took a lot of pulling and pushing does anyone know (pretty please) ...

Does anyone know where I could get a couple of H0 scale (scale not too
critical) 'Library Lions' -- the large statures of lions that are often
placed by the entrance of large civic buildings (like libraries)?  All
the Walther's has are circus lions, with might be appropriate if I ...

I have a Lima class 87 that I want to be able to convert to P4 gauge.  I
know about the Ultrascale conversion for this loco, but I want to be
able to use Steel tyred wheelsets and they are Brass/NS only.
I have found that Sharman do wheelsets for this loco, but I do not know

Hi again all
I have just received two very early Triang Pullman coaches and upon
disassembling them noticed that the clear inserts have curled badly - I
don't just want to hit them with a heat gun or hair dryer so before asking

hi, i would like some expert information from the railway community
regarding likely candicates for information passing between trains and a
control centre, as i am currently working on my dissertation for my msc in
critical software engineering degree.

The loco that came with my Empire Builder set quickly developed problems
with not running smoothly, i.e.: it goes aroung the track with very
jerky motions. No literature came with the set regarding maintenance,
etc. Which are the drive wheels, which are the pickup wheels, and how ...

I recently told a friend that when I see  pictures of the 4-8-8-4, Big
Boy, especially when a trainman is posing next to one of its wheels,
my poor little heart races! He said  that there must be something wrong
with me in the brain department. The Big Boy is just plain Magnificent,

Anyone got any Rivarossi Italian locos Ho or O that they want to depart
with? old wrecks for parts also welcome. will buy ....or exchange for UK
locos
if prefered that I have in my collection.