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The Snow Diorama
Friends, I would like to present my new Snow Diorama, build by my Friend Stefan Foerg.
When I've some free time, I love to visit the Railpictures.net Archive to find new Ideas for future Dioramas. One of my dreams was to have a snow covered Diorama for some nice Winter action. I've found many cool picture on the Railpictures Website and two of them where exactly what I was looking for.
Kitbashing a Railroad
One of the things I learned in the military and in life is not to be afraid to make a decision. That's because I know you can always make another decision.
Starting my HOn30 Quarry Line
Starting my lime stone quarry module. Needed a change of pace from building R/C cranes and R/C steam engines. I have in mind to model a lime stone quarry. There's was one located not far from me in Leroy, New York. It's located between the old B, R, & P and the Lehigh Valley.
Trying out a track arrangement.
Powering your locos with batteries: is it possible?
I've heard rumors, but I'm not sure how to make it work. Placing a battery/batteries inside a loco, wiring it up and using a controller of some sort to make it go forward/backward. Is this possible? If so, how please? I hate wiring anyway (because frankly, I stink at it), so anything I can do to make my locos run with a minimum of wiring/soldering works for me!
Loco stalling over the frog
This has probably been answered many moons ago over a very high mountain, but it's buried by now. I have a problem with an Athearn GP-9 stalling at slow speed over the frogs of turnouts. I've heard that there is a solution using either clear nail polish or nail polish remover, but I'm not sure which. If one of you kind gentlemen can give me the correct answer, I'd appreciate it.
Auto Plant Design
Currently working on the design for an auto plant on my HO layout. The space available varies from 2 feet wide at the narrow end up to 3 feet wide at the other end. Total length is 26 feet, although a portion of that is eaten up by a turnback curve on the narrow end so it works out to about 24 feet of straight track.
One thing I can not determine for sure is the handling of the 89foot boxcars. As most know, the ones with 8 doors went to GM plants while the 4 door went to Ford and Chrysler. But why did the door differences matter?
Anyone familiar with Cream City turnouts?
Has anyone purchased turnouts from Cream City? Wondering if they're good and if they're still in business. Their website seems disabled.
Railbus to Coach
Having recently received yet 2 more rail bus sets that refused to run 'out-of-the-box', I decided to scrap the mechanical bits of all my busses and use the bodies as a basis for a coach.
Bashing the trolleys was great fun and produced some really nice coaches imho, so I'm taking the same route with the busses.
I use two bodies, either the motor car or the trailer and will cut (*) them to form an eight window coach. Luck has it that this new body has the perfect length for a flat car !
What is the average lifespan of a railroad car?
Can anyone tell me what the average lifespan of the different types of railroad cars are?
E.g. Boxcars, Tankers, Hoppers etc..
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