Model Forum / General / Railroads / June 2005

Discover the famous stean train the Mastrou on:
http://www.lamastre.com/englis­h/mastrou.htm
You're welcome in green Ardeche
LaLogne

Ok anyone know what locomotives would most likely have been used to push
around SP Daylight's cars in the yards to make up  a train or in & out of
service areas around the very late 40s & very early 50s
Tim C.

A link was posted to Mod Mod today to the N Gauge society's website
which has a page showing pics of the pre production Dapol Class 66.
http://ngaugesociety.com/gallery/dapol/dapol66.htm
*cough* I'm sayin' nowt...

I am in the final stages of fitting the baseboards in my loft so hope
to start track laying soon but I am having second thoughts about a
terminus that I had planned. I had orinally considered this as
somewhere to store trains not in use as the space available makes a

I'm making a 4mm model of a GWR 'Star' class using the SE Finecast kit and
their (adapted) 'Castle' etched chassis kit. I'd like to add some brake gear
detail and wonder if anyone can recommend a maker and/or supplier, please.
Thanks in advance

I'm getting ready to put my N scale train set up on eBay. I like the set
very much but we got a cat.
Cats and train layouts just do not mix. They jump onto and break things.
Expensive things.

The website says that they should be here in September.  Looking at the pictures has
got me wondering. How tall is a CL/CLP?  Are there drawings of them anywhere on the
internet that anyone knows of?
I am expecting to see a locomotive that is approximately 4.57 metres tall and 3.04

After all the discussion etc., a friend of mine has asked for the url of the
place in Australia which had the Beyer-Garret models.  Can anyone help.
Thanks in advance.

I am just getting to grips with doing some P4 trackwork for a future
layout project, and was wondering what you should use for soldering flat
bottom steel rail to copper clad sleepers?
Thanks,

I'm looking to put together a complete 225 and perhaps an HST (probably
both in intercity liveries) to run round the garden.
Does anyone know where I can get examples of  which coaches a complete train
might consist of?

Is there any way I can fit a coupling hook to the front of a Hornby LMS
Streamlined Coronation (Princess Alice).
Local model shop tried a few but all were to short, there is a screw hole in
the front bogie.

Got real lucky on ebay and a Phoenix swap meet in the last couple weeks
where engines and cars were acquired for the trains seen at
http://www.rrscenery.com
The are a few pieces of passenger equipment sill coming in the mail to

Still playing with ideas ...
Anyone able to give me a guide as to some basic dimensions for 009 gauge. In
particular what's a typical loading gauge (W x H) and when laying tracks in
parallel what's the recommended distance between track centres?

There is a site (US I believe) that has shed loads of track plans for
miniature layouts, I've lost the URL and google isn't much help, can anyone
remind me of the URL please.

There is a tradition of posting "gloats" in another group I read.  I
haven't seen such here, so I'm starting the tradition with a small
gloat.
We went to a garage sale last weekend at a homs where the deceased