Model Forum / General / Railroads / March 2007

Hi I would like to improve my couplers from hook horn to Kadee type on the
IHC Premier Series SD-24
Any ideas. as I thought the McHenry 56 was a drop in replacement.
thanks Anthony

Great Colour Photo from my own collection, enlarged at Kodak Photo Lab, now
selling at a Bargain,last two hours.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=150100479391
Other Railway stuff including magazines listed.

Number 11, the SP steel cupola caboose prototype, originally had a
vertical-axis brake wheel which was later changed to the more modern
brake stand. Can someone tell me if the production steel cupola
cabooses originally had the vertical-axis brake wheel as well, or did

Iam wanting to build a kit of either a decapod or Big Bertha the Lickey
Banker can anybody recommend anything. I know there a few manufacturers.
Many thanks Roger (Barbara's bloke}

This train board is now the Devil's Hellhole thanks to Steve Caple and
his troll friends.
I hope are all happy you let this happen by letting him and his
sockpuppets wish death on people and laughing about it. That made him

What is the best way to strip factory paint from a brass train car?
TIA

We've just had the first delivery of these new Italian ViTrains class 37/4
diesel loco models from the UK distributors, and every single loco received
has damaged horns.  The problem must be widespread as the distributors were
already aware of this problem and claim that ...

A legendary Federal train raid
Few events of the Civil War have been so widely celebrated as a small
Federal raid into Georgia in 1862 aimed at disrupting the Western &
Atlantic Railroad, an important Confederate supply line.

I have recently "re-enterd" th hobby and since I'm retired, I read as
much as I cam get my hands on.  I read Model Railroader (MR), Model
Railroad Craftsman (MRC) (as I recall the name), lots of newsletters
via email, and so on.  I appears that most in theis newsgroup don't

Some folks here insist that the way to make the troll go away is to
ignore it. It's not at all clear that this will work: just look at the
many instances of the troll's sockpuppets talking to each other here!
And while I kind of ridiculed Glenn's (gl4316@yahoo.com) suggestion of

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:26:26 +0000, blu <not@this.tm> wrote:

Thanks for letting me know where the troll action is, pal!!
ET

    Pictures from METRO MODEL RR CLUB show 3-11-07 at
Cedarburg Wisconsin.
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4006694&a=32487731&f=

Some troll is spamming the rec.models.railroad group.  Word out it is
George Conklin who spams other groups?  Does anybody know this turd so
I can take care of him?
Wikipedia, read it and weep.

After seeing ore and coal loads for $10 at my LHS, I went into deep
sticker shock.  Upon recovery I decided to roll my own.  Started with
some clear pine scrap and ripped it to width (1 1/8" for ore jennies, 1
1/4" for coal hoppers) on the radial arm saw.  Cross cut to length,