Locos and rolling stock

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Bachmann / Bowser 4-8-4 needs help

Fri, 2020-01-17 05:40 — kirkifer

This is a Bachmann / Bowser retrofit 4-8-4. This happens to be for a Niagara but true to Bachmann form, I think this drive train is used under the UP and Santa Fe loco versions too. Of course, Bowser did not make a different frame either.

FYI, I isolated the motor from the frame by using a couple of non-conductive nylon screws to hold the brushes on the motor. It is now sorta DCC friendly. 

Couplers

Thu, 2020-01-16 19:38 — gmeister619

I have been tinkering with model railroading. Not nearly enough time to do everything I want here! I am now using updated DCC equipment but found some of my old cars.... 60's and 70's???

The couplers are different. Who has a recommendation of how to upgrade. What works best (and easy to switch out)?

You experts out there have never let me down before!

 

Thanks,

Gene

Building the Georgia Road SD70MAX---Prototype Freelance Rebuild

Tue, 2020-01-14 20:46 — georgiaroad

 

STEPHENS RAILCAR AND GEORGIA ROAD ANNOUNCE JOINT LOCOMOTIVE REBUILD INITIATIVE

—FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE----

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A Look At The Rapido, New Haven Diners:

Sun, 2020-01-12 21:32 — gmpullman

To avoid loading lots of photos, I'm making an introductory post. Photos will follow!

 

Thanks, folks,

Ed

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Which kind of glue to use

Sun, 2020-01-12 16:00 — outtacontrolrr

I want to glue small cribbing made from bass wood to the plastic deck of a Walthers 60' flatcar. Just wondering what kind of glue works best for bonding these two materials together.

Thanks in advance!

PS-2 weathering

Sat, 2020-01-11 06:06 — LVRALPH

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Modelling in 16mm scale Darent

Sat, 2020-01-11 03:30 — Darent

I've been building these models for some time now, but hopefully will complete them this year.

Everything is scratch built except the motors.

Simon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fading Non-Boxcar Red Freight Cars.

Sun, 2020-01-05 12:23 — JackM

Immodestly I think I am getting pretty good at weathering standard boxcar colors using powders and Pan Pastels.  But the era I model, around 2000, has more colorful cars.  My experience trying to fade these out has been somewhere between bad to a disaster.  My latest attempt was a Chessie blue boxcar I tried to fade with white Pan Pastels, did not work out.  I have heard of spraying a thin layer of a lighter shade of the car color, but would that not also affect the lettering?  I have also read to do this with white or gray.  I have tired oils on several projec

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Rail Car Shunting Machines, switchers, 'trackmobiles', etc

Sat, 2020-01-04 08:25 — railandsail

Recently while discussing my center peninsula track planning, container terminal & pier terminal scenes, there were a number of postings that made reference to a lot of older railcar moving engines. I hadn't realized there was such a variety of these older devices , particularly when I almost never saw them modeled.

I thought it would be interesting to look at a number of this variety in one dedicated subject thread.

 

 


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