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I need some information! It seems that I remember reading that the Broadway limited PRR T-1 was articulated ( even thought the prototype was a straight frame) to allow a bit more flexiblity in use on a tight turn on an HO layout for people like me who didn't plan ahead so well.. Purists were...

Several years ago I got a great looking B&O GP, P2K. Never did run well : it had the original cracked gear axles! Finally got to replacing them so that the running equals the looks. Can anyone guide me to who makes decent passenger cars in the blue with yellow stripe set-up of the locomotive...

The last issue of MR had an article on how to build a slow turning sign at a gas station, car dealer, etc., in HO. The diagram shows a Hankscraft 1 rpm motor. Does anyone have any net site addresses where I could buy one? E-bay has some .5 rpm for sale, but that would be so slow it would not...

Just looked at an advert. in MR for a really nice model of the cars used to transport steel coils. Could anyone tell me when they came into use? Most of our rolling stock was 1950-60's era; some a bit before or later, but not much. Would this kind of car look OK or out of place (time) on our...

A week ago my grandson had a failure of a remote control robot like device; a sad story, but a reason to dis-assemble the entire machine for "parts we can use later!" This gave me the use of a VERY small can motor with a gear on the shaft. I made a hub in plastic that could be press fit on the...

The latest issue of MR has an adv. for a miniature (@ 1" square) wireless camera that could be mounted in a loco and then beam wireless pictures to a VCR/tv.. Does anyone have any experience with such a set-up? Do you really get pictures that are "watchable"? Really curious, all info would be...

Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Penna Posts: 52 Wash Rack Pictures I need a little help. Just scanned the latest Walthers cat., and saw the passenger car wash rack item. I would rather build one myself ( space constraints - and it would be more fun than kit assembly) but I can...

I need a little help. Just scanned the latest Walthers cat., and saw the passenger car wash rack item. I would rather build one myself ( space constraints - and it would be more fun than kit assembly) but I can not find any picures of a working passenger car washing set-up in any of my books...

Two days ago I attempted to post some text and pictures describing the construction of a Lima Transfer locomotive. As far as I can tell, I used the same system that worked when I posted about the fire-fighting tank car and the RS 11 to RS 32 conversion. I am using the same computer, an Apple...

Our layout has a whole section devoted to PRR, with quite a few types of locos, but no Transfer Locomotive! It seems that no has bothered to create a plastic version, and the occasional brass item on eBay is way, way over budget. The only solution was to "do it yourself". We started with a...

Need some help!!! Just finished a project and would like to share info and pictures. The pictures are on the desktop, JPG files ready to go, but they are 1.2 mg, I think that is too big. I have a scribbled note here that they need to be 640/480 with a 65 K limit. How to I get the pictures so...

A few days ago a Walthers Catalog arrived with a picture of a fire car for sale. I was a basic tank car with an added platform for a motor, pump, and hose pedestal. We have a small logging operation with a Three truck wood burning Shay, 6 scratch built log cars with 'Real Wood' from a back yard...

To All: Have always been interested in the big double ended transfer locos built by Baldwin and Lima (maybe others also?). There is an occasional brass version on e-Bay, but my budget does not operate in the brass world! 1, Does anyone know if anybody has produced a model in HO of the non-brass...

A month or so ago I noted here that I had created an Alco Alligator to add to my HO Alco fleet. I spoke in error and used Alligator as a generic description for any early low-nose Alco. What I did was create a fair representation of an RS-32. Our SP yards are at the end of a curve/heavy grade...

I have just finished a kit bashing project, Alco RS-11 to RS-32. I would like to share it with the viewers here, and took some 35mm photos as I went along. My son scanned them into his PC and e-mailed them to me. Very clear on the monitor, but the files are Bmp format. The guidelines are...

A few weeks ago I posted a question about where to buy a fair priced plastic shell model of a low-nose old Alco, aka the Alligator. A few quick replies ended that idea - brass or nothing! I looked over my dsl books and decided on Plan B. I went to e-Bay and bid on a NIB Model Power RS-11. This...

Just wondering if anyone else was watching the TV show "Monk" on Friday evening. In the final dramatic scene, the villianess got her new husband to the pass out drunk state, parked the car on a railroad track and commented that they would not be parked there for long, just 7 minutes. She jumped...

A few weeks ago I was at a train show and a dealer had several Mantua 2-6-6-2 logging locos, new $120. Today I saw an advert. in Model Railroader by a mail-order dealer for "Mantua Classic" 2-6-6-2 locos for $79.95, also new, in fact so new they were not yet available. Has some one taken over...

I need some help! I am trying to get a good selection of Alco locos on my layout and have hit a problem. I can't seem to find any examples of the "Alligator" or "Notch Nose" Alcos in the listings on EBay. Can anyone tell me if there are any such HO models, and if so, who produced them? I may be...

To all, This topic is way out there. Does anyone know of a RTR or kit of the Beyer-Garratt loco for HO? I realize that it would not be correct for any of the railroads on our layout ( PRR, Reading, Milwaukee Rd., S.P. ---I know, that is an odd combination, the layout is in several sections)...