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1920s-30s New Car Tires wrapped in paper ( HO Scale)
I need about 2 dozen tires as mentioned in the header, the real skinny old school type, for an old tire store I'm building. Curious as to whether anyone has already done these, and can give me some tips, or found them commercially?
Similar to the photo, but those are 1/24 scale, and more modern.
My plan A is to buy various size O-rings, and try wrapping them with tape, then painting them that light brown paper color, but I'd like to hear any suggestions you guys might have.
Thanks in advance
Michael Smith
A very nice gift from a good friend of mine!
When I was living in North Georgia I was part of the North County Interchange Operating Group (NCIOG) and had a blast with a great bunch of guys doing model railroading. One of these guys - Paul R.
Metal thickness real locomotive
What is the metal thickness on the body or cab of a diesel locomotive? I'm curious what that equates to in HO scale? I poked around a bit, but the Inter-Tubes were jammed with some non-relevant info.
Thanks.
Interchange - Classification Yard...
So for a little change of pace I have started installing the Interchange Classification Yard. The yard allows me to interchange between the three railroads (well possible four if the D&H gets in too) that will be operating on the layout, The Reading, Conrail & Chessie System.
Tuesday, Day 3, Daylight 2015 NMRA National Convention
Day 3... I've rediscovered that nobody comes to a convention in order to get enough sleep.
Silent Auction is fully up and running after a rough (computer generated) start. Lots of items there, and happily it appears that most of my items now have bids on them. I've got a few out as well... the question being, will I make more than I spend?
Hosted my first NMRA layout tour
I just finished hosting my first NMRA layout tour of my HOn3 PC&N Ry. We had 64 wonderful folks stop by and tour the layout. My thanks to all who took time out of their busy convention schedules to stop in and have a look!
I never imagined how enjoyable it would be to have so many kind people look over my work and to receive so many compliments, I am extremely humbled by this experience and highly recommend it.
Have a great 2015 NMRA Convention.
Ross A
Troutdale,Or
JMRI Interface hardware
I was down at a local electronics distributor buying some cable for my DCC throttles when I saw this on the counter: a PoE Power over Ethernet Injector. There was a green side plug that is exactly like my Lenz system uses. I was thinking that I could use this to interface my Mac with my Lenz DCC to run JMRI. It was affordable too, at $55.
Does anyone have an idea of what this is and if it can be used with JMRI?
Thanks.
Retaining Walls
To All: Something that bugs me but probably shouldn't are retaining walls. It seem every model railroad
big or small has to have a retaining wall between a yard and another set of tracks or town. I have
traveled extensively and have yet to see this in the USA. They may be out there, but where?
Adventures and misadventures in car weighting
Needing a break from track laying, I decided it was time to add some weight to some recent purchases. I was inspired by the discussions about adding weight to cars elsewhere on MRH - http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/22784 as an example of recent discussions.
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