Model Forum / General / Railroads / July 2010

Does anyone know if DCC Supplies is in trouble? The last two attempts
to get through by phone left me on hold for 15 minutes without answer
each time and the website is 404 (it was working earlier this week).

thisiscrawley.co.uk
" The Crawley Model Railway Society lost hundreds of pounds' worth of
equipment in the blaze. A model railway, which had been around 10
years in the making, ... "

Are all Chinese ladies good at loco assembly or is it specific to a
particular province. Would it be better to get one already trained for a
particular scale ?

Zimbabwe Star
Friday 23rd July, 2010
" Former British servicemen have built the tallest model railway track
in the world at the St Pancras station here.

A fire has destroyed Seaboard Southern's headquarters. Based in Crawley,
England, the club's meeting place was one of several wooden log cabin
style huts.
In addition to using the club room to make and prepare layouts for

Having decided to return to the steam era (having sold off 45 locos
some 18 months ago) I settled on the bachmann 57XX as a good
representative loco.  I had also read of the problems some folk have
had converting the split chassis types to DCC. I thought "why not?" so

I know there was some discussion of this in these ng's awhile back, but I
would like to know which printers worked best and which decal film you had
your best luck with.  Thanks....
Bob

Does anyone use heatshrink to model the hoses on water cranes? If so,
what size, please?
Guy

I'm looking for a cheap new motorised HO chassis to mount  custom bodies on.
Suggestions anyone?
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So, do you smell smoke, Pete?

I got into a discussion with a gentleman today who mentioned
building a 4'x8' HO layout years ago, based on a series of
articles published in "Boy's Life" magazine. I remember seeing
the articles in my long ago youth, but for the life of me I can't

I have been reading on forums of people receiving their orders of the
new Scalescenes engine shed and coaling tower.
I have one ordered from Hatton's and they have not had theirs
delivered from Bachmann yet.

I finally got round to mounting this. Comments: the sleepers are (as
expected) narrow for UK outline, they are HO code 83 I think, this can be
kludged of course. Joining was easy using standard fishplates, but I had to
file out a short section in the middle so I could Z-bend it to ...

Is RMWeb down? I just keep getting a blank page. I thought Andy had
finally resolved the sever issues.
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I've changed the motor, added lights and fettled it up a bit.  Here
are some pictures and a bit of description of the changes I made:
<http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/wiki/Hornby_Class_110>
Overall I guess this took about ten hours of modelling time.