Model Forum / General / Railroads / May 2008

I was up at my dad's over the last few days. He's a bit poorly but took the
time to show me around his new layout and in particular the trees he's just
been making. Anyway his technique is new to me and the results looked
superb so I thought I'd share it ... apologies if it's old ...

On Bank Holiday Monday we visited the "Toys of Yesteryear" exhibition
at the
Peak Village Outlet
Chatsworth Road

For us overseas, what is the local opinion of the Bachman Scencraft stuff.
Is it even out yet?
Regards
Rob

I'm looking for a source of white decal circles (dots?) about 6" dia. in HO
scale (about 1/16" actual diameter)... does anyone have a source?  I'd need
a few dozen at most -- for a railroad sign post project.
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For many years, we have maintained an inventory of HO-scale parts.
Generally-speaking, these parts were used by modelers to make their plastic

The right throttle knob on my Digitrax DT 400 throttle no longer responds
properly.  It's most noticible when turning the knob counterclockwise and
instead of a straight-line sequence the readout might run
30-29-28-27-26-25-24-36-34-33-32-44-40-39-27-36-35 and so forth.  It also

A small  -probably F0 or F1-  tornado touched down just south of me in
Perris California this afternoon, crossing both I-215 and the Santa Fe
branch line that runs parallel to the freeway for circa 10 miles.
It only flipped a single tractor-trailer rig over on the freeway, but it

Back in the late 40's or early 50's, The Model Railroader had an
article about essentially live steam locos in O gauge that used dry
ice for power rather than a steam boiler. Does anyone here know of
anybody who has done this? Despite the threat of contributing

I'm looking for a Z scale tender and caboose to go with a class 74 DB
steam locomotive.  Was there such a model ever available?

Have a look of youtube - it's on the other compuet so I can't paste
a link - serach for the title.....
Cheers
Richard

The Statesman
"  At its height, the Corgi factory in Swansea, South Wales, named by
founder Philip Ullmann after the Queen’s favourite breed of dog in a
self-conscious act of patriotism towards his adopted home, employed

I would like invite you to consider participating in the MER
Convention in Reston VA, October 16 - 19, 2008. The web page is at
http://home.comcast.net/~Potomac_NMRA/MER2008/ .
I'm especially interested in signing up some more layouts for the

I've just been given an interesting tip for regular DC and am wondering what
opinions are as to how it might work for DCC.
Its this....rub very clean rails with a graphite artists pencil, this
apparently greatly improves electrical contact and puts a protective layer