Model Forum / General / Railroads / October 2009

.... other than Moduni in Germany, which seems to be a great site, but
they are continually out of stock of the models in which I have an
interest. I am working on the assumption that a .uk site would have
them as I am in the .us dot-com land I would also appreciate some

Has anyone seen one of the replacement chassis from Heljan yet - or even
tested one!!

My club has recently constructed a fairly large portable HO layout, and now
we have lots of track to ballast! Does anyone have any experience with how
much track can typically be ballasted with a pound of ballast? We are trying
to estimate how much to order.

The recent thread about a hypothetical ballasting car that would
actually be able to work on a model railroad layout got me to thinking.
(Dangerous, I know.) Came up with an idea for such a piece of MOW
equipment, but then decided that it would really work better as a

Telegraph.co.uk
"  ......  the five carriage train chugs around an oval route, even
taking in a ride through a tunnel .......  "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/picturesoftheday/6414981/Pictur
es-of-the-day-23-October-2009.html

I've uploaded pictures (18) taken at Woking here
http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/p61116341.html
Apologies for poor quality of colour. I don't know what happened but it
seems the lights at the venue gave everything a very yellow colour,

Posted here n case you are anywhere near the UK or Hamburg
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This should appeal to all railway modellers (and there significant
other)

I've uploaded 40 pictures taken at the NMRA British Region Convention at
Swindon starting here http://mikehughes627.fotopic.net/p61797094.html 
Can you please help with names, etc. as I had no time to get them.
I would have liked to have taken some more but I just didn't get the

On Oct 21, 4:45=A0am, "Chuck" <0...@4711.com> wrote:

Just watched Thomas for first time in ages, what happened to the Fat
Controller?
H.

I will be in Orlando for a week next month. I will have daytime free since
my wife will be in confrences then. What model rail and real rail things are
there to do? any clubs or layouts that I can visit?
I am open to suggestions for non rail activities as well.

Hiya,
Any report as to when this is coming out? I'd understood it would be out
by now?
Rob.

Probably a bit late to find one now, but today's Metro (a form of floor
covering supplied on trains in some cities) had an extensive and very
positive interview about model railways with Pete Waterman.

I hear that Athearn has announced they are discontinuing production of their
"blue box" kits.

I'm modelling a Weyrhaeuser & Busch Logging Railroad in H0 and looking for anything about Logging Railroads. Any Loggig Railroad, any format (Video, Pictures, Books).
Thanks!
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