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Contact your local hobby manufacturer
For many years, I have been a model railroad consumer. By that I mean that I would see a product I liked and buy it. My relationship with the manufacturers has been very simple - they make what they think they can sell, and I buy it if I think I want it.
IT'S CHRISTMAS - First loco
IT'S CHRISTMAS
I know this is silly, but I'm excited. Tax season ended Tuesday - I can go home on time and not work til 9-10 pm; and
MY 2-6-0 AND TRACK JUST ARRIVED FROM MICRO-MARK.
My first engine in over 25 years.
Mixing Proto 48 track with standard O Scale track
There are some manufacturer's of Proto 48 Flex Track that is significantly less than Micro Engineering and Atlas Flex Track. Before we purchase any though, we need to find out if the two types can be mixed? OR is there enough difference in the gauge that they can't.
Ken L.
Southern RR Kaolin Car
To All: I love the unusual. When I spotted the photo of a converted Southern RR boxcar for use
in Kaolin Clay loading, I decided to model one. Here are the pix of modeled, then painted
lettered and weathered finished car. The starting point is a Kurtz Kraft unpainted PS-1 kit
that I assembled. I added coupler cut bars and underframe brake lines and components. .
Proto Resources
Most of you may know this excellent resource for prototype locomotives. If not, check it out! Many contributors maintain a frequently-updated list containing entire locomotive rosters of almost every railroad out there (they even have a "fallen flags" section, which I have yet to browse). I find myself on this site especially when I'm trying to figure out from what road a specific locomotive originated from.
-John
Blending N scale Kato with Code 55
My Bolero, Lindy & Tango RR will undergo major changes when we finish the attic room and I'm having lots of fun drawing plans. It appears that the new layout will be in a "T" shape and I plan to use Kato Unitrack turnouts combined with Atlas Flex Track as much as possible because I'm impressed with the reliability of that combination. Several of my existing Atlas turnouts have been troublesome and the insulated frogs are bad for my short-base steam locos. When I replace them with Kato, everything is fine.
Modeling Excellence - Miniaturization
Well now - can you model this small? In the eye of a needle?
I have painted molded figures in N scale somewhat well, but this person really "takes the cake". He sculpts AND paints - 1:5000 ? - 1:10000 ? molecular paint thickness ?
To see his work, visit his gallery:
http://www.willard-wigan.com/gallery.aspx
Droppin' Feeders!
When I was starting out, wading through the muck that is YouTube produced no concrete answer as to how a DCC layout should be wired. Wiring books suggested that I use chunky, stranded wire that just looked way out of place soldered to the rail and speaking with some of the experienced "old timers" I always got the same answer: "What's a DCC?" Seeing that I was not getting consistent answers (and wasn't aware of MRH yet!), I decided to use what I had available, which is almost always the co
Best steam sound for the money?
I'm putting this in DCC since that's where all the best sound systems are these days, as far as I know. If there's a better option, I'd like to hear about it. And of course I know that "best" is a very subjective thing.
In your opinion, what is the best steam sound for the money? Bang (or chuff) for the buck, what would you chose? Or is that the wrong question entirely? Should I simply be asking about the ultimate best quality, and just figure out how to pay for it?
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