Model Forum / General / Railroads / December 2007

I have a Lionel Lines Classic Freight set that comes with a 4-4-2
Steam Engine. The set indicates ability to make smoke, forward-neutral-
reverse and Trainsounds. I found the switches for the F-N-R and Smoke
under the engine and the Sound Switch under the tender.

You try desperately to bring them up right but 7 year old says he wants a
diesel. At first he was just teasing me, but now hes quite serious.
Would be grateful for any advice to bring him back on to the right track.
Cheers,

Friday, Dec. 21 2007
Residents Urged to Stay off Railroad Tracks, Reminded to Always
Expect a Train
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Does anyone know how to reset a Lionel ZW transformer back to manufacturer
settings.  This transformer is not working at all.
Thanks

First train set and I'm looking for the R142a Subway set.  Where would
be the best place to buy this?  Local or online?

I`m trying to convert a Hornby Intercity 225 to DCC. The problem is that the
ringfield motor type 6 only has one visible wire which is brown and this
goes from the the rear bogies to the clip on the motor terminal which is on
the front bogies. There are no other wires on the ...

Has anyone seen a schematic for Lionel's CW-80 transformer???
The fan in mine is starting to make noise...
Thanks much!
Chet

So what can you learned people tell me about Lima's British outline
products. Are they as good as Hornby, Bachmann? Are they still in
production? I am favorable impressed with my new Hornby and Bachmann locos,
and have see one or two Lima products on Ebay. Would I be wasting my ...

From Amsterdam "A merry Christmas and a happy 2008" to all of you.
As a Christmas-special I updated my homepage with a video of a good
modeltrack-friend from Johannesburg/South-Africa. More than 30 minutes with
trolley-models from Amsterdam, US, and different countries in Europe.

I'm doing the interior detailing work on an ornate heavyweight business car
and wondered if anyone out there had any tricks for making realistic-looking
curtains?
Roll-down window blinds are no sweat, and Venetian blinds are available

Got my new Falcon (early lime green). However, the standard coupling means
that the coaches are too close to the engine and derail on curves. Any idea
as to an alternative longer coupling?
Thanks

I'm going to be stripping the paint off of a couple of MDC Roundhouse
combine car shells.  In the past, I've used a bath 90% isopropyl alcohol for
a day or two, followed by a little scrubbing with an old tooth brush, to
remove paint from MDC freight cars.

Just about sold on a Union Pacific Diesel Freight 6-30051 by Lionel
with TMCC and 50"x90" layout.  Does anyone have any insight on what I,
or I should say my young son, should expect from this set in terms of
satisfaction, upgradeability?

Hello people,
out of boredom :-) , I decided to search in Ebay for a model of the UP
'Centennial? locomotive.
I discovered, to my surprise, that there seem to be approximate versions

Can anyone direct me to either a website or book that contains the proper
list of power classifications used by British Railways? I'm thinking of the
4P, 4MT, 7F things, not the Type 1, Type 2, stuff.
I've found a wiki that covers what the LMS did that the BR ones are based