Model Forum / General / Railroads / April 2006

Totally unsuspected my cooperation was being asked for an interview in a
collectors-magazine.
Never heard of it till now, but afterwards not so surprising. For the first
time published some few months ago and now they came up with their 3th

Does anybody know if there is such a thing as a parts diagram for the
Hornby Mk3 coaches. Do they come apart? Can things be changed? Can I
buy bogies and glazing independently?
Any help would be most appreciated.

I've got as far as starting to build up the senic sections of my garage
layout so I was scouting around as to what to use as ground cover/ballast.
Yup there's plenty of commercial products out there and some are very good
but I do hate parting with money. Anyway lon story short I ...

Track pins = Very expensive for what they are. For the same price as a
single packet of track pins you can pick up a pound (back to real
measurements folks) of the finest veneer pins from your local hardware(*)
shop.

Since the main power leads will already be in place under the layout
and above my head. I was wondering if anyone has found an easy way to
strip the wire for attaching the track feeder wires.
I was also wondering if attaching the main power leads to bus bars

Since so many models are available as undecorated, why do I have so much
trouble finding prototype photos of that railroad?
If cabooses are painted caboose red and reefers are painted reefer orange,
does that mean that flatcars should be painted flat black?

Following my cheapskate thread I've been doing a little more experimenting.
One of the techniques I use when making stone walls, flagstones and the
like is to use plaster of paris in a thin shim over a wooden former and
then carve out the shape of the stones, flags, sets etc. It's ...

Totally unsuspected my cooperation was being asked for an interview in a
collectors-magazine.
Never heard of it till now, but afterwards not so surprising. For the first
time published some few months ago and now they came up with their 3th

Does anyone make the Talgo replicas of the units for the likes of the
Cascades?  Been looking high and low for them but cant find it in HO scale.

I submitted an on-line order to Valley Model Trains
   http://www.valleymodeltrains.com/
a short while ago and I got an e-mail back from the boss who'd noticed that
I ordered several small parts in O-scale and a large kit in HO and wanted to

Hi All I am an oldie witha basicc 00 st with a couple of newish trains I
have just bought a box of locos from an auction house most want serviicing
or repairing, has anybody got the time to help me idetify them and get them
working properly it would be greatly appreciated or ...

KATO GP35, installed a soundtraxx DSD-AT100LC decoder.  Everything works
fine, engine control, lights, sounds etc...
However, whenever the engine is powered there is an annoying buzzing noise
from the speaker.  This is also when the unit is muted using (F8).  Note I

I have updated my P87 spread sheet on my web page. I expect that
purists will not like the resultant numbers but it does allow the use
of P4 wheels re-gauged for P87. This will solve the problem of no
commercial support for P87 steam locomotive driving wheels.

Athearn recently announced an HO scale 40' gondola, described as "newly
upgraded, ex-MDC body."
http://www.athearn.com/Newsletter/032106/40_gondola_032106.jpg
Which ex-MDC kit is this based on?  #1340?

I'm looking at building a New Zealand Railways loco on a Bachmann G
scale 4-6-0 chassis.
There seems (based on price) to be two different versions of the 4-6-0
(ignoring railway variations) offered, the set loco and the individual