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What's Neat: Scott Sanders' locos and rolling stock

Sheffield Velocipede

Improving a 1970s Athearn Santa Fe SD45

First day after Christmas at the club

Sun, 2013-12-29 13:47 — Mycroft

<p>So, yesterday was the first day of normal club operations after Christmas. I got there a little late and was kind of expecting to just take my new engine over to the test/programming track to work on it. Whoops.....</p>

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Anyone know what these are?

Sat, 2013-12-28 20:43 — edfhinton

As part of a mixed lot of HO rolling stock, I got a couple items that I don't know what they are. I don't know if they are just part of the frame of something and the rest of the car is missing, or if they are some kind of open frame car for carrying steel or something similar.

Here are a couple pictures of the first one.

early 1900s ore cars, ho scale

Sat, 2013-12-28 15:54 — DougA

id like to get a string of ore cars from the early 1900s, say between 1910ish and 1930ish. micromark has something, but i dont know anything about the quality. here's a link

http://www.micromark.com/ho-scale-22-wooden-ore-car-kits-bulk-pack-of-12,9060.html

does anyone have a recommendation on a manufacturer where i could buy ore cars? any thoughts on the micromark cars? id like RTR and preferably from a western railroad.

Electrically Conductive Lubricant

Thu, 2013-12-26 09:51 — ajcaptain

I could use some advice. I have 2 Athearn Genesis sound locos (an F7A/B and an MP15) that have the dreaded intermittent electrical pickup problems. I have NWSL wheel sets on order that were recommended on Tony's Train Xchange website as a fix to the problem. The fix says to use the wheels plus Electrolub in the journal cavity. Problem is, I don't know that electrolub is available any more.

Does anyone know of a readily available substitute for Electrolub?

Thanks,

John C

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE MEC/LVRC

Wed, 2013-12-25 21:36 — Drastal54

HEY GUYS SORRY FOR THE DELAY IN POSTING BUT IVE BEEN HAVING SO MUCH FUN WITH THE LAYOUT.but first we see MEC 254 with a pass extra. and LVRC hauling the same train a few hours later on a far holiday trip. and we even see a rare Allagash hopper outside of Maine and even get to see the 254 hualing local after we head back to St. J but to everyone. Merry Christmas and happy holidays

Scratchbuilding N Scale Freight Cars

Sun, 2013-12-22 16:24 — danielb

Hello there!

I stumbled across MRH a while ago whilst searching for information on model railroads and have since downloaded and read every issue, it is truly an inspiring magazine and - dare I say - the best available from the perspective of a modeler of the American rail scene from outside the USA!

As such I thought I would try to give back to the community who read it and see if I can maybe give someone else a little inspiration too!