Model Forum / General / Railroads / April 2008

In one of the model rail mag's  a reader was 'complaining' he was
unable to get a scale model fire engine for the steam loco era for
his  'OO' loco's.
I had a quick look around the web and found nothing.

Found out how to get all the Homasote I  -and possibly you-  will ever need.
Only big problem is that you've got to find the one guy at the commercial
desk in your local Lowe's retail outlet who can actually find his own a.s 
using both hands and an explicit set of directions...  ...

I'm hoping someone here remembers an old book I used to have,
(actually, I still have it, but cannot find it.)
It was a good book about model railroading in general, but the 'how
to' was strictly HO scale (1:87)  The cover had green on it, and a

Been thinking about this recently, staying with 4mm not Trix or early Triang
The Triang Hornby ones were actually not too bad, the roofs were correct but
the ends were not good.
Mainline had a good stab - they actually produced a corridor second! But the

In OO, what is the accepted norm for height clearances of one track over
another, and what is the accepted gradient to achieve those heights please?
scoot

I'm still struggling with gauges.   If I want to run trains that, in the
real world, run on 3ft 6in and 4ft 8 1/2in all in one layout do I run HO as
3ft 6in and then a "bigger" gauge as 4ft 8 1/2in or use HO for 4ft 8  1/2in
and something else for 3ft 6in?

Deepwoods Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.1.16
of the Model Railroad System.  This package includes a collection of
libraries and programs designed to help the modeler with many of the
more tedious aspects of his or her hobby.  Included are libraries for

Locos Units and Coaches
These are model I think should be produced and why, some are single survivor
GWR
4-4-0 Let start with City of Truro - no explanation required, I'd buy one,

How about this for someone waiting for a train on your station?
http://www.ontracks.co.uk/index.php?page=search_results&string=28060

I am thinking of building a simple garden railway, and have in mind
either Gauge 1 or G scale.  I understand that the gauge of track for
both is the same, but the rail heights differ.  Will engines built to
either scale run on either type of track?  If not, which has the

I live near Cambridge, England. Flying from London to Boston and
touring New England next month for three weeks. I would like to see
some US model railroad layouts but looking at Model Railroader it
seems you guys don't have exhibitions all over the place as in the UK,

It needs encouragement, but esp. forward, it's starting to move.
Lessee, I filed down the cast-on, backwards-facing rods coming out of the
cylinders, so that there was less hitting by the rivets; bent the wire
that's soldered to the brush, so that it's not rubbing the body, and went

Following a trip to Burton On Trent we went to find M & P Models on
Church Street, Church Gresley near Swadlincote.
It's not what you could call a 'full time shop' as it's only open
Saturday 1.30 till 4.00,  Sunday 10.30 till noon and a couple of