Model Forum / General / Railroads / September 2006

I have updated the file "N scale items for sale" in the "Files"
section of the Yahoo "N Scale Yard sale" group with about 1000 N
scale items for sale on it.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NScaleYardSale/ I have removed more sold

In the thread above where someone asked about selecting resistors for
use with driving a LED, nobody really nailed it right on the head. So
just to clear a few things up, a rather long post follows.
First of all, while non-electronics types refer to the resistor in this

I received the first Walthers empire Builder car for my Great Northern
Empire Builder.  Like most of Walthers passenger cars, it is ready to run
except for the addition of number decals and grab irons.  I find the
addition of these grab irons to be quite tedious.  I have more ...

Is it just me or does anyone else find that their website
http://www.ngaugelines.co.uk/ doesn't render properly? I'm using IE6.
MBQ

I'm looking for a filler for the seams on plastic model buildings (on
an HO layout).  Very narrow seams, maybe half a mm wide.  A bit too
wide for paint to fill them in.  Is there a good model-shop product to
use? Or something else?

I am assembling a B&O diesel trainset using drawbar connections. It will be
an A-B-A with the two A-units powered, and the B unit not powered.  Since my
railroad is on deferred maintenance and an economy wave, I am using Athearn
Blue-Box F units, and they are of the Superpower type. ...

any web sites showing boxcars for Oregon Pacific & Eastern?

Hi Guys. The five new HO kits, Skid row Two DD1032 $69.95) Skid Row
Three (DD1033 $49.95) Rescue Mission (DD1034 $34.95) Kitty Korner Strip
Club (DD1035 $34.95) & the weathered sidewalk set (4'+ feet for $24.95)
are shipping now. Thanks for waiting. I'm a one guy operation & the

With all the discussion on silos................
One member years ago had made grain silos out of PCV pipe.
He had gone to one of the local grain elevators and did some drawing
and talked to some people there.  When he put them on the layout, it

Anyone know the best adhesive for this? Everything I've tried either comes
unstuck from the paper or from the polystyrene.
John

I've been searching in vain this morning for a quote that someone posted
when Big John Dalton passed away back around May of 2001.  It was a simple
quote that went something like this... "Big John parked his train, took his
power to the house, then went home."

I'm about to start my first layout and have a couple of questions about
wiring that I'm hoping your good selves will know how to answer.
What I'm building is an n-gauge table-top (literally on the dining room
table for now!) layout using Kato Unitrack so that I can put it away.

Anyone here used these? I've ordered a few for trial on my layout, so
if no one here has used them I'll be able to report back on my
experiences.
According to the manufacturers website, they're not compatible with

In days of old some UK railways used fish belly rail, either in single
segments or cast in lengths of three or four segments.
How were curves handled with this type of rail?
Also given the standard practice of adjacent track joints (rather than