Model Forum / General / Railroads / November 2007

Anyone kitbashed one of these locos.
Who has some drawings ?
Charlie

The Tech Model Railroad Club of M.I.T. will be holding its fall Open
House on
Saturday, Nov 17 from 2:00 to 5:00pm and 7:00 to 10:00pm, in room
N52-118 at

...call the damned MI5 and tell them to do something about this
fool!!!
They should do two things when they pick him up.  First, they should
eliminate any and all access that this jackass has to the internet -

Have been asked to confirm recommended thickness of plastic card for scratch
building wagon bodies in OO.
Haven't worked in OO for years - In N I use 20 thou for the wagon body - the
OO models in question are to be steel bodied minerals, so I would assume 20

Seems not enough people have been buying it, the online version remains.
Chris

Sometime in the last couple of weeks a link was posted to a gallery of images
about the moving of a large German layout to an exhibition. I thought I had
bookmarked it, but it seems not, and now I can't find the original link.
Anybody know what I'm looking for?

One year, a traveling ballet troupe decided to perform Swan Lake.
It spent months rehearsing. Two days before hitting the road, it
held a dress rehearsal. Unfortunately, moths had gotten into the
tutus. They were destroyed. And there was no place in town to buy

I recently bought a very used old brass S.P. tender on eBay from a chap in
Australia. Turns out that he'd neglected to mention that both the trucks had
been broken at some point and then soldered back together by someone with
more ambition than soldering skill. Either both had ...

Does anyone have any recomendation from the following list of retailers? Are
there any to avoid at all costs?
Any advice gratefully received.
http://www.modelrailwaysdirect.co.uk

Does anyone know of a source for an HO model kit of a Baltimore truss
bridge?  These trusses are meant for heavier/longer railroad spans than a
typical Howe, Warren or Pratt truss.
Their noticeable spotting feature is that the "triangles" in the basic truss

I want to buy the book: Santa Fe Heritage Vol 3 (I have part one and two
already) and later Vol 4 to complete the serie.
I found the book and orderadres on te site:
http://www.pairedrail.com/ordering.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_artic
le_id=489555&in_page_id=1773
(shortcut URL: http://tinyurl.com/yptrf8)
Has pic of his HO layout and Model Railroader cover featuring his
layout,

Has anyone tried this offering yet?  Any comments on its credibility,
Regards

Just got my long awaited Standard 4MT Mogul today, to my eye in all but one
respect it's a lovely loco.
That one respect? The connector between loco and tender can either be too
wide, or non existant. Now, I'm one for getting as close to scale as

Just had mine hauling 20 (yes 20) mixed coaches and it was game for more.