Model Forum / General / Railroads / September 2005

I am intending to build a 5" gauge model of the NSW RTA's XPT train.
I have sufficient drawings, etc to build the model's bodywork but the
one thing stopping me proceeding is a lack of drawings (and casting
skills) to make the wheel bogies on the power cars. According to Janes

My dad is  looking for a hornby gner hst pack (R2000)
Where would i be able to find one nowadays?
They seem to be a rarity on ebay.
Thanks

Did Ivy City yard in DC handled freight (as freight yard) or was it just
engine maintenence yard (in any period of time, but I'm interested in
transition era).
Also what about nearby Eckington yard?

I am working with N scall Peco turnouts with the PL10 switching motor,
however no matter what I try I can not seam to get the switches to throw in
one direction they seam to work ok throwing to one side but not the other.
Can someone PLEASE help shed some light on this problem if ...

I have one of these and it runs very well apart from accelerating from not
moving to a slow crawl in one step - there seems to be nothing between. I
found a reference on the net to this, suggesting putting a resistor in
series with the motor. I can see how this might work with a ...

hey! - seen the pre-pro Farish 44 ( want a blue 45 myself but same
difference) and at last a good 6 wheeled tank...
happy days. I can finally get my Stirling - Newhaven motorail done and
the milks to Clapham. yay!

Evening group
can anyone recommend a website that gives dimensions of common
colourlight signal formations please?

Dapol have today put some pictures of their forthcoming 66 on the
website at: http://www.dapol.co.uk/newsn.html
It looks a little cracker, with separate handrails, etched roof grille
and NEM socket.

All
The weather has changed. Dropped from the 100's to the 80's. And has
triggered the ancient response to begin pestering my Dad to set up the
Lionel 027 Christmas train layout, the trains he began buying for me

just picked up a couple of Rivarossi 4 wheel corridor coaches that I'd like
identified and perhaps buy a few more - the guy in the store didn't know
anything about them as they were dropped off as a lot of used items.....
only marking are on the body as running numbers and they ...

For those who are interested in this sort of thing, the Didcot Railway
Centre is having a weekend of Victorian Steamings and events on the Bank
Holiday weekend (August 27th-29th), including the replica broad-gauge
Firefly.

This time,  I have over 30 more photos of depots from 12 different
people. I think it’s a good group.  There’s a depot that never
existed, a rare depot I’m told may never have been photographed, until
the photo taken after a tornado hit it.  Check it out and tell me if

I am looking for an old AHM (Rivarossi) HO Big-Boy. It does not have to run
or have a tender. What I need is the boiler and smokebox front. Reply
directly to me with particulars.
Larry Madson

At Leeds MRS we are looking at building a model of Chapel station set
1955 to 1960. I have alot of info from Bill Hudson's book "Through
Limestone HIlls". I am short of a signalling layout and any source of
photos would be appreciated.

I presume that most modern day depots have sand for the locos delivered by
road?
If it were rail delivered today, what would bring it in? A VGA with 25KG
bagged sand sound plausible, I am guessing that modern depots use allot less