Model Forum / General / Railroads / September 2008

I am buying a Walthers turntable which has code 83 track on it's bridge,all
of my layout is code100 track ,I intend to use transitional track connected
to a Peco code100 turnout on the lead rail to the turn table,it will be a
straight run with no further turnouts involved, will I ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7561943.stm
(kim)

Does anyone know of a used Digitrax Zephyr unit for sale?  I have the Empire
Builder but I want to add the Zephyr DCS 50 so I can get decoder readout.  I
don't need the entire system... just the DCS 50.
Carter Braxton

being a native German (model)railway - enthusiast nowadays living in
Paraguay, I´m looking for some information.
Our left over TOC FEPASA writes in the history of Paraguayan Railway:
"En 1953, después de los Sentinel, la otra inversión en equipos de tracción

A message to all those who've been following my fotopic postings
As I've now got more that 150 photos on the South Shore part of my
fotopic site and over 120 on the 'real' trains part of the site I
realise that it is getting a bit more difficult for people to find

A seller on ebay is offering THE ULTIMATE VIRTUAL RAILWAY SIMULATION
SOFTWARE 2008 which he says is public domain software.  Rather than pay
someone to put onto a DVD software that I can download for free does anyone
know the URL to find this as Google has not been much of a ...

Just to make sure I'm thinking about this before cutting plywood!...
if I have 6 pieces of Atlas Code 100 15" radius curved track and I
temporarily lay down track for a semi-circle, I should be getting a
distance of 30" measuring from the mid-point between the two rails of

I'm sure I saw somewhere a list of the makeup of a post-war Flying
Scotsman.  Anyone know where it is?
Guy

Our son has been given a Hornby L6360 Blue Pacer.  It has motors in
both units but I can find nothing about it.
It also has the ref. S4533 on the underside.
DCC fitting ?

Any pointers to web sites for such info, is it even possible to have
such TCs for signal/point interlocking purposes?

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=238328&version
=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20
1,800 metres,  that's only about 2,700 bits of R603 track !
Apparently it took the TOMY Thomas two & a half hours to travel the
length of the track which they said would ...

Definitely a train set not a model railway.  Here are some
in-progress pics taken in the last couple of days:
<http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/Railway/In_progress>
Hopefully you can see the size of the thing and also gauge roughly