Model Forum / General / Railroads / February 2008

We have a small test setup of O Gauge tracks, with, initially, a small
transformer, either #1015 or Type B (assume the former).   We had a
couple of switch tracks included (the ones with the right angles
coming into the main track, with the three connections..

The latest fantasy novel describing the wonderful things we'll be able to
buy in the dim and distant future dropped through my letterbox this
afternoon.
Oh no, sorry, my mistake. It's the new Bachmann catalogue!  :o)))))

http:/www.cardmodelers.org/geog/cardstock.htm
Table showing cardstock weights and metric equivalents. The site has a
load of other interesting info, too, and links to free and commercial
card/paper model sites. Card models work well as background models,

This is my first post here, and I'm hoping you guys can help me out.
I'm trying to breathe life back into my father's old Lionel 675
engine.  I have repaired many things including cars, other toys, old
arcade games, and other things, so I'm pretty sure I should be able to

I am planning to build a small layout. I am torn between N scale, of
which I have a large number of cars and motive power, or going to On30
and I am also considering using DCC, but I am not sure if it is worth
it. Any comments, please.

can you have bumsex on it?

I have now invented the "trundleduct".  I will stick some pics on my
website when I have a minute.
I am building a model railway in my garden room, which is 27' x 17'
(8.2m x 5.2m or four by two and a half centifurlongs).  It goes

Lionel L.L.C. may be out of bankruptcy by the end of this month.  Attorneys
for both Lionel and MTH Electric Trains (formerly Mike's Train House)
reached a deal last fall which needs approval by a U.S. bankruptcy judge on
January 31.

Does anyone have a current address/web site for Mike Sharman wheels since he
sold up ?
TIA
Eddie

Have Bachmann sorted out those bloody rivets around the windscreen yet.
 That's the only reason I have'nt bought one yet.
Rob.

I am trying to replace the coupler on my Bachmann Spectrum USRA Light
4-8-2.
I have the sampler package from Kadee - all sorts of designs.
Nothing seems to fit this engine.

Earthtimes
7th Feb 08
"  The world's biggest toy fair opened in the southern German city of
Nuremberg on Thursday with safety and innovation getting priority

I have about a dozen flat cars that I'll be using in a diorama-type of
setting.
While they look very "pretty" with their red, black, green, brown, and
even baby blue floors, I'd like to paint the wooden planks to look a

Our sons has asked to go to Sheringham this year for our family
holiday to be near the The North Norfolk Railway @ Sheringham.
It's a few years since we visited the area but I do recall a
specialist model shop down an alleyway at the Market end of town and