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What About Contact Cement?
Anyone have experience using contact cement to lay cork over a plywood base? I've done it over a small area and it seems to work ok. However, I don't have any long term experience with it. Does it hold over the long run?
Doug
Most Wanted Detail Parts?
So, I've been thinking, as I'm wandering rolling stock, what type of rolling stock details are missing?
Here's the start of my HO scale list:
- High capacity Dreadnaught boxcar ends
- Corrugated boxcar ends
- 60' X panel roof
- sine-wave boxcar ends
- 125T plastic trucks with 38" wheels (Code 110 & Code 88)
Several of these products are available, just not separately. I'd hate to cut of a Athearn/Roundhouse FMC boxcar to the the corrugated ends.
The Beast from the East
I happen to have (read had) a happier than normal paypal account; due to the fact that I've been selling off other non-train hobby related items these past few weeks. So there's this auction up on eBay....and I'm thinking to myself, well, the last thing I need right now is another locomotive - especially an expensive brass jobby.
But.....
So I looked at my paypal account, and placed a bid.
And I won!
LIONEL TRACK OXIDATION
I recently bought some Lionel Track and switches that were left outside (not by me) in rainy weather.
The track seems to have little rust but is badly oxidized. I was told sandpaper or emery cloth is the best method for getting the stuff off. If I used metal polish (such as is used for hubcaps, would I be doing damage to the electrical current in the track?
Covered Hopper Hatches and Commodity
With regards to the type of hatches on similar type covered hoppers, were they specicfic to the type of commodity being transported? There were/are square hatches, round hatches and the car length rectangular hatches. In modeling various dry chemical/plastic pellets, fertilizers, grains and sand, what is the appropriate style, if any, for the hatches?
Beyond The Homa Sote yard
Now that I have the Yard layout set I've been putting the 4% Narrow Gauge Main line grade out of Ridgway toward Placerville and Telluride using the cookie cutter style baseboard. I have about 40 feet of baseboard installed so far and My wife went to bed so I had to quit cutting and screwing the baseboard down and decided to glue down some cork roadbed in place. Usually I use wood glue to attach the Cork roadbed and I have 3 or 4 tubes of Caulking type tubes of liquid nails so I Tried it. It is so much less messy than any other adhesive I've ever used before.
MRH Scale Conversion Utility Program
Welcome to the support forum for the MRH Scale Conversion Utility program.
The Scale Conversion Utility program is provided as a bonus to readers of Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine. It allows quick and convienient conversion between scale feet and inches (or meters) and the actual (real) distance for different scales.
You can ask questions, make suggestions, and read answers or opinions here regarding the use of this program in this forum topic.
Traveling car thread...
I'm using the blog here, to chronicle the traveling cars I've hosted.
First we'll see TWP 5658, a covered hopper lettered for The Whistle Post, another online forum. I hosted this car back in early 2009. She received a new set of trucks, as the ones on here were too tight, and fragile.
In November 4 other members of Model Railroad Forums, and myself, joined forces for a 5 car roundabout. The first car arrived today.
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