Model Forum / General / Railroads / January 2007

No, it's got nothing to do with American Idol or Broadway.
I've googled and looked at bunches of sites without finding what I'm
looking for, so I'm throwing myself on the mercy of the court of Usenet
(in other words, I'm desperate and am asking here as a last resort).

How hard is it to replace the lenses in a permanently installed Utah
Pacific Adlake corner marker light?  It looks like CA glue was used to
attach them to the sides of the caboose.  This is my first experience
with them.  I want to change yellow-green-yellow to red-green-green.

Has any one in the group had any expericences with this new model ???  I've
seen one and the detail is just great as good / better than Brass.     But
I'm hearing that it's running qualities with a train behind it are not so
good.    I would appericate feed back on this and coments ...

I've strongly resisted the temptation to set up a Fotopic site for some
years, and have to say that I find repeated advertisements for them to be
irritating, but last year I acquired a significant number of 1920s & 1930s
monochrome negatives originating from the camera of the ...

I am trying to reduce  the DC transformer 14v down to 3v. I went to Radio Shack
and started looking at resistors. Found out very quickly I did not know what I
was looking at. I would find something for example that read 470-OHM 1/2 watt
5% tolerance. Nothing about volts. So what ...

Is there anywhere I can down load track plans for the above?
Thanks in anticipation
Jim

I'm trying to justify my green Class 20s on my Diesel / Steam transition
Southern layout.
Why would they be there,  and what would they be pulling?
Rob

Why would a Bachmann Jinty need a 21 pin decoder socket?

Group,
Anyone have an update on the status of decal printing on home user
printers? Specifically for printing gold, silver, white letters, etc.
Previously, the only option was some out of production ALPS printers,

I'm a recent denizen on this group the past year and have been grateful
for the information I've received from a number of folks on a few posts
I've made in that time.  However, I see there's a lot of flame wars
started (in particular, the verbal attacks by one particular person) ...

When it happened you might have been able to hear a pin drop, but all I
could hear was my Kato SD-40 falling off my
layout and hit the floor!  I couldn't even hear my heart beating, it had
stopped!

Issue No 172 on sale today - one day early!  Is this a record?  ;-)
John.

Good morning.  I have a pair of cast coach bogies - they are one piece
castings, and would appreciate any advice regarding drilling holes for
fitting wheel sets.  I cannot hold the drill vertically, because the
other side of the bogie is in the way.  I suppose the only option is ...

I often see sleeper cars often described as "8-1-2" or " 10-1-2" or "12-1"
or other such numerical designations.  Not being a passenger car modeler,
I've never looked into detail on what these numbers meant... is there an
easy description for us non-passenger types to understand ...

No sooner than JT mentioned them, then the proposed Bachmann releases for
2007 appeared on their web-site. Too many to list here, but a few
interesting wagons such as BDA and VDA, along with BR standard 12t vans make
an appearance. Those who hanker after steam locos may be ...