Model Forum / General / Railroads / August 2007

I have a motorized Walthers 90' Turntable #933-3171 and am wondering if it
can be controlled by a DCC decoder.  I have a DH123 Digitrax decoder and am
wondering if I can connect it to the track power and then to the AC motor on
the turntable.

OK, so the consensus seems to be that this stuff is NOT appropriate for
baseboards.   Mine is built from Sundeala (6X4) at the moment but I'm
planning at the moment so what do I build the base board from?   I'm likely
to be running round the edges of a room with some form of ...

In reply to John Turner who posted this on 15 August 2007 in the thread
"Crime or misdemeanour". This post has been matured on my system, so I
got this from google groups.

Has anyone else had haulage problems with the new Bachmann Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0?
I just got mine, and it's a very nice loco, but I tried it on a friend's
layout yesterday and it was having real trouble hauling more than a
couple of Bachmann Mk1s up a fairly slight gradient.

Layout needs to come across doorway of shed, do I duckunder or install some
sort of lifting section?Baseboard height is 50", and needs to be about 12"
wide at this point.

I've read with some interest the thread "Another one bites the dust" and
have started to wonder what we could do to get people in to the hobby.
It seems to me that price is a barrier to entering the hobby.  A teenager
with a part time job (15 hours) can spend almost a whole week's ...

" FurnessS Model Railway Club members face the end of the line
following a Barrow Borough Council decision to throw them out of their
home of 23 years. "
http://www.nwemail.co.uk:80/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=532367

"What we find with the people who come along to the open garden is
that the wife drools over the garden &  flowers and the husband drools
over the trains,"
http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/47216

Broadway Limited or the new Intermountain version ...
Has anyone seen and/or operated either or both of these Cab Forward engines
to offer an opinion as to which model they like more?
Thanks,

A report from the Ely-Standard.
Professor Stead set up a magnificent model railway in the hostelry's
13th Century attic which delighted the young choristers and also has a
book published on railways called "The Birth of the Steam Locomotive -

I bought my daughter a Lionel Timberline set at a flea market for $20 so as
to feed her interest but keep her away from daddy's trains.
It was missing a car, the track and engine were dirty, the log dump car is
now a flat car and the timber mill is missing a few parts. But the ...

Any model railway shops?

I have used this product on my layout and I find it excellent. However I
need another roll and I have lost the name of the supplier ( a model
shop in London IIRC) - can anyone help?