Locos - Rolling stock (general)

Help establishing value of live steam equpment

Sat, 2019-04-27 13:06 — Wabash Banks

I am not looking to sell anything on here but I do need some advice on where to get good valuations on some 1:20 live steam. A friend's widow is looking to sell some of his collection. I am trying to help her get honest prices for the stuff. I have no idea where to really look to find the value's of these things. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Broken Gear Question

Mon, 2019-04-22 07:44 — Jackh

I have an old Precision Scale HOn3 shay with a cracked gear. I have some ideas on what I need to do to replace it. That is not the issue.

A replacement was never made that I know of, so question is at one time there were some very good glues that were quaranted (sp?) to glue anything together. Would it be possible to use that stuff and fix it or is this just a visit to fantasy land on my part?

Thanks, Jack

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Tinting LEDs to achieve the warm white look

Thu, 2019-04-18 18:43 — bobmorning

Any thoughts on the best way to tint LEDs to achieve the warm white appearance.   Many of the surface mount LEDs, especially the 0602 nano types only come in "bright white".

I would like to tint them to get the incandescent look.

Repairing broken Athearn blue box locomotive shell mounts

Thu, 2019-04-18 17:31 — Solo

Has anyone tried repairing broken shell mounts on Athearn locomotives? The ones that snap into the fuel tanks to hold the body on. 

3D printed passenger car trucks

Wed, 2019-04-17 19:54 — Nathan Rich

So I stayed up way too late last night. This all started when my friend Tom bought some old AHM/Rivarossi cars at a train show. It has probably been coming on for a while before that, but this was really what lit the fire. I'm sure we all remember Rivarossi Streamlined cars. Many different roadnames were made, but I always thought the trucks were flat. Hardly any detail. I'm sure I'll get a reply that says that I could have just bought Train Station trucks or Walthers trucks, but this way I have the pride of knowing it is something I have made and produced.

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To burnish or not to burnish

Wed, 2019-04-17 16:39 — Graham Line

The oddest questions crop up in clubs.

Upon studying rolling stock requirements for a large (but not named here) model railroad club, we found an interesting requirement.

The rule is that the face of all Kadee couplers shall be cleaned up (presumably with a flat file) so that the outside of the knuckle presents a shiny, uniform surface.

We tried a comparison coupling tests using cars equipped with:


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