Model Forum / General / Railroads / January 2010

Dear Friends,
I'm reworking my Conrail E33 ho loco and, after repainting job, i need
new decals.
Can help me to find correct decals for this loco?

Do you tend to use bending rolls to set flexible track (after sliding it
out from the sleepers!) to your required diameter, to counteract
any tendency not to follow you desired curve, or to cause binding
on the curves?

Just seen my first "T" gauge layout at the Calne show.
Very impressive.
But, based on miniature motors that might otherwise only
run for a few seconds per hour (eg vibrator in a mobile phone)

Hello again,
I need to paint a dark piece of styrene with  White Polly Scale .
What would you suggest for the underCoat?  I cannot use Oil based
(Health) and

Read all about it: http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=213
(seen on another newsgroup)

I've noticed lately more and more Thomas model railway stuff being
discounted.  Is the Thomas boom over I wonder?  Those folks at HIT
Entertainment seem to have done a good job of upsetting a lot of people.

I have just acquired a brake-3rd, all 3rd, and 3rd-1st. How would these
three coaches be marshalled in a branchline or mainline stopping train?
(The loco is an 0-6-0PT).
Thanks,

Can anyone put the correct part number to a Hornby Class 37 in EWS
colours numbered 37040?
ta much!

Because of the number of times Jerry has resorted to ad hominem attacks
on people who disagree with what he has posted, I have now added him to
my banned senders list.

Heljan have just released new 33/0 models as:
- Green D6585
- WCRC 33025
- WCRC 33029

Well the lad has been on the internet and now 'knows about model railways'
So, in a room ten foot square, in OO, we have the mountain section, the
station(s), industrial sidings etc.
It's all going to be DCC and he seems to think DCC can be programmed like a

Maybe a humorous cautionary tale of over-ambition in model
railroading.  Seems SWMBO got fed up with me missing church on Sunday
a few times to spend the whole day soldering feeder wires.  I figure I
was about 4 weeks away from completing the conversion to DCC on my

Has anyone tried using GRP as a scenery base? I want a large hill that
can be removed for track cleaning and maintenance (behind the
backscene), I was thinking of using GRP on an exmet armature.
Guy

I have a 646 Hudson steam engine that I've been running with my set
since 1953. The set comes out now just briefly for the holidays,
(space is limited).
This year while cleaning and lubricating my equipment I noticed that

looking for brushes for life-like, atlas, model-power engines.