Model Forum / General / Railroads / June 2006

went to Trainworld and duly bought the recommended ELO to get the pain off
my loco ready for a refinish..... trouble is, the stuff won't shift the
paint! I have applied three coats, following the destructions of course, to
no avail.

Does anyone know of a good website that shows photos or pictures of
modern locomotives and rollingstock with enough details for the amateur
modeller to get an appreciation of colur changes etc.
It is easy to go to a website and see say the GNER livery but I cannot

I have a wonderful logging mill at auction on ebay and would like to
liquidate.
HEre is the link hav a look it comes with an operating flat car.
Great for any layout.

What is hailed as one of the largest indoor train sets in the world
consumes an entire room of a Tampa family's home. Mark Rosenthal's
southern railroad systems hailed as one of the most impressive and
advanced indoor lgb layouts in the world. On three levels, eleven

Hi Group,
I am off on a business trip to Geneva and I wish to purchase Minitrix
n-scale trains whilst I am there.
Anyone recommend any good and hopefully cheap shop with a large range

I have a Hornby Dublo well wagon and would like to upgrade the bogies to run
on code 100 track Any ideas on how to do this would be welcome
Bob

I'm trying to track down a particular issue of MRJ from some
years ago - it must have been sometime between 1991-3 and I
remember it featured a number of pictures of Martyn Welch's
7mm Hursley, as well as an article on modelling grass and

Is MRJ out yet as I have not received my subscription copy.
Thanks
David

As I detail out the sketches for the Halloween layout, I'm realizing
more that I'm not going to be able to pack in as many elements as I'd
originally imagined for this first project. Scale and size limitations
are getting clearer. It will take probably a set of connected layouts to

Is the newsgroup functioning?  Haven't seen a post for three days

   So they got the latest issue out in time - just: Saturday morning - for
Railex at Aylesbury, having missed it by a week last year despite big
paid-for ads and a puff in the editorial pages. (Still a fortnight late but
that's almost good for Wild Swan).

Can anyone tell me if Class 40s worked into Shrewsbury in 'Blue Diesel'
days, please?
Thanks,
Roger Thomas,

Ok, So I went and took some more shots with showing the curve of the
metal of the superstructure ( under the cement part ) as my subject.
You can judge, but getting the curve in the picture was tough because
of the piers and other trees that prevented seeing the whole 9 yards.