Model Forum / General / Railroads / December 2006

Is everybody so busy or uninterested that there is absolutely nothing to
talk about here since 11/12?
Or is my server on the blink?
Anyone managed to get extra weight into the front section of their Eureka

Anyone any thoughts on the Garratt traction question I posted the other day?
.................................................................Bill

Went to login to the Model Railroader website just now (Sunday 2:40 PM
eastern) to check out the forums. Problem is, I can't login. What happens is
the page to login comes up, but the place to enter my user name and such is
totally blank. I've emptied my browser cache, reloaded the ...

I've managed to get some tiny red and amber bicolour LEDs with the
intention of fitting to my Hymek (amongst other things).
The only doubt I have is how to arrange the lights - is it two red at
the rear, 2 amber at the front? Or red on one side, amber on the other?

Hey chaps, have a look at this "bargain" on Ebay, think I'll have to dig the
old scrap box put and start flogging some stuff.
M

Hi, I have been looking around my old Hornby catalogues but they don't go
back far enough so...
Does anyone know the old Hornby "R" Numbers for the following points and
Diamond crossings ?

There was a large train derailment in North Baltimore, Ohio this afternoon
around 12.15pm.  This is on the main east-west CSX line.
Visit the following web links for more details:
http://www.thecourier.com/

I have listed about a 150 Marklin HO & Z scale items for sale on ebay.
These auctions will end tomorrow December 3, 2006.
Please cleck on this link to see the pictures and the listings:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=qrq+marklin

I recently got back into the hobby but am still a newbe and don't know
very much. All my old locos and rolling stock have standard Rapido
couplers. Last week I went to the Reading Pa.  train show and bought
some coal cars that matched some of my old road names. Not being very

I am brand new to railroad modelling.
I am looking for a system to control a model railroad from my own PC
and write my own software to do this (say in C#).
The safe route I have found at the moment is the LENZ Set 90 a TR150

PEr a prior reply I gave to another newbie, I am now wondering if my
advice to him was correct.  With most DCC controllers, can you run one
engine without a DCC decoder?

Went to the store yesterday, and got a book on basic wiring. I won't
need it for the near future, but a few months.
Anyway, I also got some flex track to do the train around the tree gig,
and I also went to Atlas' website and downloaded their track planner

Just picked up one of these for my son's Christmas present.
Has anyone else had issues with the thing derailing with monotonous
regularity?  The power car seems to cock a wheel when running in one
direction when entering a curve (second radius Hornby).  Track is well laid

   I'm putting together a little DC HO layout for the 1st time in decades,
and to create blocks, is it better to use the insulated nylon rail joiners,
or to use the normal metal ones, then slice the rail where I want and glue
in some thin styrene as I've read that others do?

See:
http://www2.nmit.vic.edu.au/~david/trainroom/up29aug06.htm
For progress on my layout.
Regards,