Model Forum / General / Railroads / April 2006

Hello there and thank you to all for the help I have gotten... I have
got quite a few diesel engines and steam engines that used to belong to
my dad and they have not been run in a few years, some of the
manufacturers names are Athearn, TYCO, Mantua, AHM, Proto(?), Rivarossi,

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this loco kit thing, and have
been making good progress on my Dave Alexander J21 kit.
Unfortunately, I've had to temporarily suspend construction due to the
lack of solid information on Stockton-sheded J21s other than the 1923

Looks like we have another moderator who deletes railpage postings if he doesn't agree with them.
Doesn't help with what's left of railpage's creditabiliy.

I have a lot of HO stuff collected since I was 10 years old and a 4 by 8
layout that my son and I started about a year ago. I have decided to sell it
all and wanted advice on where to start to set prices, etc. I would like to
sell as one package, but think eBay may be another ...

This item appeared March 27, 2006, in the Chicago Tribune:
As a 1 1/2-mile-long freight train rumbled past a towering stack of
green containers marked "China Shipping" last week, Neil Doyle, aboard
his CenterPoint Properties helicopter, swooped in for a closer look, the

Specifically I have some basswood which I want to stain to look like tie
material.  What's the closest stain I can get?
TIA
   Norm

Working on a stream / pond area and would like to add some willow trees.
Anyone know where to get them from premade, or a site that shows how to make
them?
4mm size

Hello all.....Need a little help;
I received 2 HO scale cars that I would like to know who made them as I
cannot find any markings on them. Both look like wood side box cars, one
has "Dentyne" and is red, black and white and the other is :"Krey's" and

Any ideas as to text that might bring me up to speed with you all?

There is always a lot of talk regarding "blue" foam on the US and UK forums
..... I know what the product looks like and it is not what we would call
styro-foam, as seen in kickboards etc..... rather, it's perhaps an inch
thick and comes in panels, used in the construction ...

Whatis the  best way to strip paint  of whitemetal locomotive  kits, Ive
used matte finish paints  on my  Berg's 47 and 49 classes and the  paint
work is shabby so I want to strip the  paint  back and spray them, does
anyone  have any  idea's

Hello all, I have an Atlantic Coast Line "B" unit made by Athearn that
is not powered....Can I get another "B" unit that is powered and made by
Athearn and simply swap the shells so that I would have a powered "B"
unit for my ACL?..Thanks to all for the help...Mike

A friend is having problems with his turntable. The turntables rotates
properly & stops at any of the exits without any trouble.
The fault lies in when a loco is attempted to move on or off the table,
the loco will only go one way (the other way is open circuit). Turn the

As the subject says, I need at least pictures of a finished MDC/Roundhouse
Outside Frame 2-8-0 HOn3 but I'd much rather get (a copy of) the instruction
sheet.  I would, of course, pay reasonable copying costs.
TIA

I'm chipping a Hornby 110 for DCC and want to add lights. What do I
need for 1960s operation? The motorized power car has two white lights
painted on it. I haven't looked at the other end and don't have it to
hand at the moment. Express models sell a red/yellow (in lieu of