Model Forum / General / Railroads / April 2007

Brass strip: Anyone know how narrow these commonly strips go down to (in
the UK) - at least from easy to obtain ranges, I don't mean thickness/gauge
but actual width.
I'm looking for some around the 3mm (now that we're metricated <spit>)

I have a few engines that I bought along the way that have DCC
installed. How can I tell what decoder is installed? I think I need to
know the decoder so that I can determine the CV values.I'm going to be
using a Digitrax Zepher to operate the system.

I purchased a new Zephyr today and hooked it up, but I'm having
problems getting things to work. 1st of all I had an Atlas Commander
before and everything was working except I couldn't program my
engines. I assumed the contgroller went bad and wanting to go to

The urge to go and see some trains became overwhelming.  So, into the
teeth of the Northeast storm, I set off for Lebanon NH, some 70 miles
south of me.  The show was in the Lebanon high school.  They had three
big modular layouts up and running, one for G scale, a huge HO one, ...

I was thinking  of purchasing some  Railzip to apply to my tracks, it says
its friendly to plastic wheels but, is  it friendly to models that have
traction tyres.
Cheers

I am a little cross (non religeous), at the poor pulling power of so
many locos. Most of the GW tender engines are too light when compared
to LMR.  It surprises me to find that the Ivatt Cl 2 Tank is the
heaviest (and best equal performer with the GW Panniers).  As the

Something I found on you tube.  Pretty neat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T5jqbhqi4M

There can be no doubt in my mind that the GWR  is still the true
religeon. It even has it's desciples  in the LMS  ( The latter day
GWR).   The holy spirit being Steam  and not Diesel!

I would like to build from scratch some n-scale buildings.  The
bulding I am thinking of would be a run down shack, half under
repair.  Can someone give me basic size directions: Height, depth,
width for a 2 or 3 story building n-scale. Material would be wood,

Hi, I know there are several mags devoted to model RR'ing; but what,
or which would you recommend? Do you have a favorite? Thanx for the
advice.
Bruce

She will service you any which way you want to.  One catch is you
gotta wear your train man hat while doing it.  I get 3 days service a
week and am worn out brother in between the service sessions.
Mark can't satisfy her so the service you get is FREE.

I'm trying to find the dimensions of a UK rail tanker which was probably used
for transporting fuel.
The overall length of the tank is very approx 8 metres long and 2.5 metres
diameter.

Can anyone let me know the approx size of this Skaledale OO item?
Thanks
Rob

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Thanks for looking

I am looking for some airbrushable acrylic paints in a satin/matt
finish to spray onto polyurathane resin castings, can anyone suggest
any available in the uk.
Preferably in larger quantities not the usual 15ml pot sizes