Locos and rolling stock
ScaleTrains SD40-2 Detail Kit - a little help, please
A couple of months ago, I purchased a ScaleTrains.com Operator SD40-2 model in Santa Fe. Nice model, aside from the ESU Sound Essentials decoder - it was immediately replaced with a Tsunami2.
I decided to sand off the class lights and rear numberboards, using Tamiya Putty to fill in the holes. So far so good.
I couldn't match the paint. And with COVID-19 I wasn't going to make another trip out to buy more. I did manage to foul up the factory paint pretty well before I decided to just dunk the shell in 91% IPA.
Please show us your Mikados, Prairies, and Santa Fe's
It's that time again! Sorry, I'm outta town and can't photograph this certain locomotive that would be just perfect in this category! Which loco, you ask? It's a secret!
Please show us your Northerns, Mountains, and Berkshires
It's that time again! Sorry, I'm outta town and can't photograph this certain locomotive that would be just perfect in this category! Which loco, you ask? It's a secret!
Branchline Heavyweights
Have I missed an announcement or something? It seems that Atlas has stopped producing these, as either RTR or kits. Or have they sold the line (as they bought it about ten years ago) and I am just not searching for the right things?
I was just about to embark on a project to build some other types of cars using the Branchline cores and new 3D printed sides and interiors. I had in mind to build a couple of Plan 4019 lounge-diners and Plan 4020 8-lounge-obs from Pullman cores, and some C&O Imperial Salon cars from coach cores...
The Shay jungle (lack of them)
Haven't been doing much in the hobby lately but kind of got drawn back in by mention of an HO scale MDC G&D Shay on that e-mail group. It was up for sale on E-bay and I bid and lost. That set up a search around there looking for Shays and several candidates emerged, most the MDC. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but those are not regarded as the best models to begin with and need a lot of work and TLC to ever get them to run right.
Arrowhead Models announces second car -
Arrowhead Models has announced the Greenville 2494 Railgon gondola as their second release.
Featuring 199 parts per car, that includes 81 wire parts and 34 brass parts, including the car sidewalls.
NARC/PWRS PS 5077 Box Cars
Hi all
I've been thinking of getting a 3 set of the above in CSX colours. Never having seen these in the flesh (I'm based in UK) or being able to find a review of them, I'd be grateful if someone with experience of NARC/PWRS products in general and these in particular could give a heads up as to whether they are a good product.
Thanks Lee
tuning up a Bachmann 44 ton loco
I've picked up a used switcher that is noisy. Do the methods of toothpaste cleaning and good oil work on these?
I have never stripped down a loco
Brake wheel height
How high were the brake wheels? I would have thought they'd be at a height comfortable for the "brakeman" to be able to turn them. However, in the many pictures I've seen, brake wheels seem to be at all kinds of height. Especially where the brakeman is standing. Like on the top of a house car. I've seen pictures where the wheel is barely above his foot - and others at his waist. And were the variations due to the RR? The location in the U.S.? The car manufacturer? Or is it that all I'm seeing is models that have no real basis in a prototype.
Shipping small quantities of military vehicles--need reasons
I have a very eclectic supply of tanks, 2 Shermans, an M-10 tank destroyer, and an American Renault FT, along with a jeep and a trailer
I'm trying to find a legitimate reason top have a shipment with one or two tanks, anywhere from the 1920's forward, to have a shipment of just a few tanks in an otherwise normal consist.
The only reason that I could think of was a War Bond tour, in which case including everything would actually make sense. Also for a War Bond tour, the tanks wouldn't be hidden by tarps :)
Any other reasons?
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