Model Forum / General / Railroads / January 2008

Can anybody out there put me in touch with group / enthusiast who love live
steam engines. I inherited one from my father, built by him in 1950's and
used to carry the kids around the garden, needs sprucing up but want it to
go to a good home - its approx 4 ft long with the ...

The latest Scale Rails (NMRA magazine) includes an article about DCC
signal forms under various conditions. Three of five systems tested
earned a Conformance Warrant because their signals maintained a smooth
wave form at the transition from negative to positive (as measured at

Has everyone gone to bed early ready for exciting announcement tomorrow ?
Cheers,
Simon

I stopped by Northern Tools a couple of days ago to buy a Paasche VL set for
the regular price of $69.99.  Imagine my surprise when it rang up for $35.00
exactly.  I checked the receipt and the SKU was an exact match.  :-?  Must
be an unadvertised special or something.  I stopped ...

A man needs a hobby.
I guess I'm not well-rounded. I seldom take a vacation (never, come to
think of it), and I don't spend a whole lot of time in church, though
I do not consider myself a pagan.

Does anyone know what kind of couplers are used on Bachmann's McKinley
Explorer set? No one seems to give that information. If it uses Rapido
couplers, are they relatively easy to swap out for the Micro Trains style
knuckle couplers?

Hi there. Does anybody know who makes a riveting tool for punching out
dummy rivets in etch brass kits. The tool I am thinking of is the one
with a threaded rod and a weight that allows the drop of the weight to
be set thus producing (theoretically) uniform rivets.

Hello to all!
My little son has just make pieces the info sheet of the Trix-GG1 H0
model.
Is there any .pdf (or any copy) of it out there?

    I am interested in any reports regarding these kits __
particularely whether they have sufficient weight. They look so nice
and cover a range of locos which suit me very well but I would be
wanting performance too!  

I just put a new whistle disk/rectifier in my old KW, and some posts,
and two new rollers, when i was putting the main post in i notices
three wires going to it. The main power wire, the whistle wire, and
then the overload lamp wire. Is that supposed to go there? Now the

I know the question has been asked here before as I searched the
archives however most of the threads seem to go way back.
So, I'm currently planning an OO layout and would like to incorporate
overhead catenary.

Manchester Evening News
24th January 2008

Would any one advice on narrow gauge modelling .
009 or 7mm  which is the most available in kits conversions using available
chassis, or complete kits.
Any information on suppliers .

Evening gents,
I've been noticing the stable of Vitrains Cl37s has been increasing
rapidly of late. Does anyone have any opinions of them with regards to
comparisons with the Bachmann model etc?

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