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Questions on how to get a Powerhouse 2-4-4-2 to run smoothly

Tue, 2011-09-13 17:30 — johndrgw

In 1988 I purchased an Oriental Powerhouse 2-4-4-2 (Little River/Skookum type).
This is a die cast body on a Samhongsa chassis. Since I am starting to build the
part of the logging section of the railroad in which rod locomotives will take
the logs to the sawmill, I thought I would try to get this locomotive in
operational form. It has a can motor and with some tuning and lubricating, the
loco chassis should be fine. I will be putting a Tsunami light steam decoder

Can anyone identify this caboose?

Thu, 2011-09-08 08:41 — DKRickman

I know what the lettering in the picture says. I want to know if anybody knows where the car came from. Does it look like any other caboose you know of? I've heard people say it was a Virginian caboose, but the windows are not quite right, and they don't line up relative to the cupola in the same way.

How I scratch build steam in HO

Wed, 2011-09-07 10:50 — DKRickman

I posted this picture in another thread, and thought it might be worth a comment or two. I don't want praise (well, everybody likes it) and I'm not trying to show off. I hope that I can show somebody out there that it is really not that difficult to build a steam loco from scratch.

Here's the photo:

Black Gunk Be Gone !

Fri, 2011-08-26 13:47 — Sugar Beet Guy

We have a pretty good understanding now of the black gunk that gets on our wheels. Hopefully, metal wheels are not prone to collecting this stuff as much as plastic wheels. At least I hope so since I just upgraded 200 cars with Intermountain wheel sets at no small cost.

Mehano Locomotives

Fri, 2011-08-26 06:45 — ron netti

For anybody out there, One of the large mailorder companies out of NY is selling these locos at a supper

Canadian National HO scale H6 class 4-6-0 info wanted

Thu, 2011-08-18 05:35 — CNJ Dave

Howdy Everyone,

I am working on an HO scale modeling project that involves rebuilding an old brass Van Hobbies CNR class

H6 4-6-0. I am having DCC/Sound installed and plan on having her detailed as CNR 1533 circa 1958. Dose

anyone out there have any photos of the CNR H6's in service, especially the 1533 / 1325 in commuter service

in the Montreal area?

Headlight in a cabcar.

Sun, 2011-08-14 03:23 — upsmuggler

Locos and rolling stock

I need help to figur out how I can build headlight in a Bombardier cabcar from Athearn.

Is there anybody who have made this?

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Hans Ole
www.smugglers-division.dk

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Practising my freight car weathering

Tue, 2011-08-09 18:26 — porthos

As I sat waiting for a call for an follow up interview today I pulled out some of my weathering materials and grabbed three box cars and starting practicing with some new materials. I'm working with the MIG line of washes and pigments and I'm undecided on the results right now. Are these good, bad, to much, not enough weathering? In other words if they were finished up with trucks and couplers would you be willing to run these on your layout?

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GE 44 Tonner Phases

Tue, 2011-08-09 05:18 — rhammill

OK, I've been searching through old magazines, the Diesel Spotter's Guide and anything else I can find. Does anybody know a resource that details what the different 'phases' of GE 44-tonner construction?

I've seen it mentioned that there are as many as 12 different phases.

I know of W&R brass releases of:

Phase Ic (presumably there was a Phase Ia and Ib)

Phase IIb (again I'm assuming there was a Phase IIa)

Phase IV.

Freight Cars for Transporting Lumber and Plywood in the 1940's and 1950's

Mon, 2011-08-01 07:41 — Cascade Bob

Before the advent of the centerbeam flatcar for the transportation of lumber and plywood, what type of freight car did the railroads use to transport these items? I assume it was some type of boxcar to protect the lumber and plywood from the weather.

Thanks for your help.

Bob

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