Model Forum / General / Railroads / May 2010

I am looking for some marching painted soldiers for my HO layout. Any one
knoe where I can find any?

Now that Athearn is out of the kit business, who still makes
[relatively] easy-to-assemble plastic HO scale caboose models?

I can remember back in the late fifties when TT was all over the model
railroad news.  Then it just quietly sank from sight.  Why did TT
disappear and N prevail?
It would seem that the advantages and disadvantages of the two scales

Okay - Track laid, well most of it, wiring in, running test trains.
The layout has ended up with effectively two ovals, an upper and lower with
a ramp down between them, the upper also has some gradients on it (very
shallow though).  Minimum radius is Peco 2nd radius (which stll ...

I am returning to railway modelling after a long abscence.
A local "expert" tells me that I should keep clear of Hornby's Dcc and
Bachman's.
I will not be running more than two locos, but I would want to operate