Model Forum / General / Railroads / October 2007

... you're just standing there admiring your work.
You've spent a year drawing plans, trying out track plans, constructing
the baseboards, jigging points around until you're happy with what
you've got. Then you start to lay track in earnest, wire up the point

First I am doing researchm just not everything is here yet. Found a 1943 OERE
and another on Modeling the C&O plus several Kalmbach books and 2 on wartime
railroading and one more on the way. Also the Champ book on letter and
colors.

Been out for a while, started back again 5 to 8 years ago had to put it on
hold agin. Now the time may be right.
So:
How about a rundown of loco makers?

Folks:
Launched!  With a creaking and groaning (the board's,
not mine), I rolled my new 4x8 table on to its legs, and
bingo!  I had a table.  A big clean 4x8 is a splendid

I grew up in BR(MR), so the double sausage totem station signs, station
doors and window frames, platform trollies and porter's sack trucks and the
weighing machine outside the parcels office were all maroon.
I seem to remember the Airfix platform accessories were shown painted ...

Was visiting a friend's layout and saw him cleaning his diesel loco's wheels
by pouring a small amount of solvent on a paper towel, laying it on the
tracks, and letting his locos spin their wheels against the towel until they
were clean. Seemed to work like a charm, and it was ...

Folks:
I stumbled across this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/American-Flyer-Engine-4-6-0-Tender-0-Delta-Lines_W0QQitemZ32
0158225538QQihZ011QQcategoryZ19146QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Could this be one of Frank Ellison's locomotives?  The scale,era,