Model Forum / General / Railroads / October 2005

Some events just keep repeating themselves.
http://www.allowe.com/Humor/sightgagbrowser.htm?j=799

Sorry chaps, cant access my books and Google cant find a pic of the 03
with side skirts on - anyone know of an on line pic of same, I need to
check the detail on the skirts themselves.
Regards

As Above.
http://www.internethobbies.com/internethobbies/inmodtrain.html

Rodney Barrington built a Tumut to Batlow branch line in HO scale
sometime back, it was covered in an article in AJRM.
I would like to contact him does anyone know his location please.
Peter

Just a reminder the show at Langley Park Boys School, South Eden Park
Road, Beckenham, Kent, takes place this weekend.  Twenty layouts
including Charwelton from the Wolverhampton club.  Details at bww.co.uk,
I think (I'm not the club tekkie).

As the subject says, I'm a newcomer to the railway modelling scene. Many
years ago my father had brought me (when we were based in Germany - RAF
family) a Marklin (sp?) train set. Unfortunatly, over many house moves
and a lack of understanding of the value of what I had, it has been ...

The German railway museum in Nuremburg, Germany, destroyed by fire on
Tuesday 18 October.
Pictures here:
http://www.rp-online.de/public/bildershow/nachrichten/journal/10949

Hi Group,
Can anyone tell me what kind of signal I require to signal the following
... LMS ex L&Y or ex LNWR set in the early 30's.
The train has to be brought to a halt on a doubled main line - say on teh

I have bought the following three engines (Thomas, Percy and James) for my
grandson from the Bachmann HO "Thomas the Tank" range. I wish to fit DCC
decoders into these.
I am only wanting to control the motive aspect, so I am planning to use Lenz

Hi - not having had a railway since I was 13(too many years ago!) I became
interested again when I visited my daughter in Germany.
I liked the size of a Fleischmann set I saw in a department store but didn't
buy it at the time. I've seen a starter set on e-bay

Just received a lovely streamlined coronation, named King George VI.
Unfortunately one of the nameplates is missing and I am hoping someone out
there may know where a foil version might be got.
Many thanks

There is a great picture of a double slip on the Isle of Wight Steam
Railway in their civil engineering newsletter at
http://www.iwsteamrailway.co.uk/pages/Civ_engineering/trk_2004.htm
They seem to have a fondness for complicated trackwork, a nice

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You can make your own parts. Check it out
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I was wondering how people handle train control when and if a layout has a
peninsula and you are operating a train that is simply passing by the
peninsula with no business on the actual peninsula. Let's assume the
peninsula is 8' long x 3' wide thus creating a formidable walk ...

After much reading and a certain amount of procrastination, today I
finally went out and bought an NCE DCC system. The radio control one so
I'd have no wires to trip over.
Now I wish I'd done this sooner! Then I'd be past the stage of fitting