Model Forum / General / Railroads / April 2007

Thanks to Thunderbird which allows one to plonk pests with just three
mouse clicks.  Too bad Thunderbird won't allow by to plonk ALL
crossposted messages, that would clear things up completely.
David Starr

Art Griffin offers some decals for unique freight cars, not available from
other sources.  Apparently he makes his artwork directly from photographs of
prototype cars.
http://www.greatdecals.com/Griffin.htm

According to MREmag,
<quote>
There is an important story breaking which is embargoed until Sunday. I
shall, therefore, be producing a Sunday issue of the magazine so that we

At our last exhibition in July 2006 Mark Found of The Railway Channel fame
came along with his camera.  As The Railway Channel has evolved the film has
now wound up on You Tube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pexM6jPMvY

Many thanks for all the suggestions, in the end I reinstalled the news
reader and then redownload all the list of newsgoups and re subscribed
tothe ones I wanted using a couple of free newsgroup servers,
Aioe.cjb.net and also Freenews. However I think tiscali is the main

Hi, Does anyone else have problems with tiscali Newsgroups?
Even if I resubscribe to the newsgroups I use they do not update. The
last date for items on this newsgroup is 23rd March for example. Is this
them or me? I use  Microplanet Gravity as a reader

I have one in Choc & Cream but I want a 118 and a 116 as well as another
117.
All can be produced with the aid of a razor saw - I have a chopped up donor
body - only one DMS from it so far!

In preparation of either setting up or giving to my son for grandson,
I dug out my old Lionel train I received for Christmas in 1950 - yes
I'm an old Fart. Everything seems to be working and only needs
cleaning except for a section of track that is used to uncouplecars or

Try:
www.toolhaus.org
For example:
http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=cleonejr&Dirn=Received+by

I received this link today as they are showing a narrow gauge film over
Easter of the W&LR. but it looks very interesting and they did ask to share
so here you are.
http://www.therailwaychannel.com/

Where might I find technical data for Hornby models  from 1990 to
present day.   I am particularely interested in the change ( if any )
from tender to loco drive.

I was a member of the UK model railways web community webring. Now, when
I looked this morning (after receiving an email from someone at
webrings) I find that I am not, but someone (not me) had added me to the
16mm narrow-gauge webring and the live steam railway modelling webring ...

Here's an interesting new photo of my layout, taken from the roof of
our house:
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/View?u=3009006&a=32116967&p=75444363&Sequence=0&
res=high
(I had to fix a dryer vent, and discovered the roof provided a great

If you buy on ebay and want to check a seller negative,neutral  feedback on
ebay,
edit the web address and type, ".au" on they feedback page you should be
able to select from a drop down menu their last 12 month dealing.

Some things are becoming clear to me. This DCC computer stuff is an
exercise in control theory and is really rather complex and not
suitable for 6 year olds in the least. It may be interesting for 14
year olds, or for 74 year olds. I think that it is fun, but so is