Model Forum / General / Railroads / January 2007

Looking for some spare roofs in Farish N Gauge for Mk1/2&3 vehicles.
Have bodies with no roofs!!
Anyone with something in there scrap box?
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Hope people here can help me, and I apologize if this post breaks any
conventions. After several years of civil contention, I finally received the
Christmas trainset that's been passed down from father to son for the last
several generations in my family. The condition is that I get ...

Hi.  I'm running a Lionel 665 + tender + brakeman on the roof car +
barrel car + tank car and lighted caboose under our Christmas tree
(small oval).  My KW transformer circuit breaker may be faulty (when a
short circuit occurred wires to track got hot enough to melt the

I am in the process of setting up a new O gauge layout and have
benchwork that is the dimensions of 8 feet wide by 16 feet long.  I was
wondering if anyone had any ideas where I could take a look at layouts
others have built in similar dimensions.  I am not very creative when

I just received a vintage Lionel D-162 in store display in the origianl
box. Shipped from the Irvington Branch in Newark NJ. It only has the
platform, track and two bumpers. All of the switches appear to be in
good shape. No buildings, lights or accessories but plenty of holes

Now I know most of us on this group are too young to remember the
1930s, but I have a question.  Hornby are said to have made an 0-gauge
model for the Swedish market at the time, but I haven't been able to
find any details about this.  Even Hornby say they have no record of

Thanks to all those that gave assistance/advice on this.
We have success.  2 DPDT switches wired up to 2 controllers.  And it appears
to work - so even better !
I can now 'play' at shunting in the yard whilst I have 2 other locos chasing

Some videos of Widnes Vine Yard (OO modern image) have been uploaded to You
Tube
Available for viewing here http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=beast66606
Enjoy ...

Does anyone have a preference to the control panel built.  I'm looking
for a simple way to control everything and have thought about building
my own panel with all similar switches and labels to control
everything.  I feel that it would look cleaner then a jumble of

I am trying to paint a 4-8-4 Union Pacific in the two tone gray scheme
and would appreciate more information on the colors (Floquil reference
- I found the UP mist gray) and pointers to pictures.
1) What is the reference for the second tone of gray?

I am thinking of building a little Constant voltage supply to install
on my O Scale engines
to power the classification lights through micro LEDs. Typically, these
LEDs require between

Hello All I hope you are all enjoying your Christmas
I got a 9F Today, opened it up (lovely) sat it on the track (lovely)
proceeded to run it in as recommended.
Problem number 1

Can anyone help me with this. When I was about four years old I visited a
friend's house. This was about 1959. He had a new train set. He said it was
a "Hornby" but I pointed out that Hornby was 3-rail and not 2-rail. He was
adamant it was a "Hornby" which I now know to be at least ...

Not an expert here so need some advice.
I want to isolate both sides of a piece of track - but rather than use two
SPST (one for each rail) I'd like to use the one switch.  Why ?   I have a
freight yard which I want to totally isolate from the main line so I can

I have a bachmann ivatt 4mt and a small bachmann tank engine the tank
engine runs through the peco 2nd radius points with no trouble but the
ivatt sticks in the middle, both the points and the engines are new,
can anyone explain why.