Model Forum / General / Railroads / October 2006

The promotion appears to be quite strong so would expect them soon. Even
Bachmann have announced what might be considered a spoiler with their new
system.
So does anyone know when theyll be in the shops ?

but I dont know where to start. It's a simple question I would have
thought, but I'm running into a brick wall. Travelling to Britain in
July 2007, part of my activities - including visiting model railway
shops :-) - requires me to travel from Edinburgh to Glasgow. Now, I

I've Scratch built a 5 bay roundhouse for my Grandson's HO layout. The
bottom is Mahogeny veneer and we want to glue the copper rails directly
to that. What type of glue is recommended for that and should I paint
it first?  

it looks like this flextrack (ME-12108) is out of production at Micro
Engineering. Does any member of this group know more about it and maybe
a dealer/somebody who has stock of that Flextrack. I am desperately
looking for it for a while now.

Hi everyones...thanks for your time. I have an Alpine Living Proof demo unit
i've bought on Ebay. It's pictured here:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/kilo.watt/images/living_proof.jpg It's to show how
the Alpine/Ecoquest air purifiers works. It use some liquid smoke to fill

Looks like RMWeb2 has gone the same way as its predecessor as it seems to
have collapsed.
All that is now appearing is a Windows log on box and very little else.
Here we go again.....

Hi team.
I went to the exhibition at Bushey in Jan or Feb 2005 with one of our
layouts.
At that show there was a trader who was selling foam inserts and packing

Could anyone recommend a book or more on the basics of repairing HO
engines from the 40's and 50's to today's model.  I need a book which
is quite basic.
Thanks,

I would like to build an American layout HO scale.
Can anyone advise me on  what rail companies I can run on a layout
especially if I build a switching yard or fiddle yard.
Any advice would be appreciated.

I've tried magnifying glasses on all the color photos I can find, but I just
can't conclusively tell - most locos have enough weathering that the
lettering is slightly gray which could be either dirty white or dulled
silver.  I've tried the UPHS site, Google and the model train ...

I would like to build an American layout HO scale.
Can anyone advise me on  what rail companies I can run on a layout
especially if I build a switching yard or fiddle yard.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Model Railroader magazine sent me a survey by email on Tuesday night (I'm a
subscriber to the magazine).  Did anyone else receive it? Your thoughts on
the questions?
I thought the questions were adequate... mostly they asked for ranking of

In connection to my serial about "SCENERY",  I visited during my
holiday -especially for this website- the "Schwarzwaldmodellbahn" (=Black
Forest modeltrain-railroad) in Germany.
It concerns here the largest European modelrailroad according to the real

I'm about to strike out with my first layout after a childhood of
helping build my dad's American N-gauge empire.
To start things off I'm buying some Kato Unitrack for a simple track
plan that I can get on the dining room table with the permission of

I just posted some new pics of my backyard railroad project, beginning
with this one:
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=3009006&a=32116967&p=74595455
You can click through the rest from there, or you can go here to view