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Found this great site, blogspot with awesome prototypical photos and info. Even has consist loco numbers, etc.....Both CN and CP http://tracksidetreasure.blogspot.com/

Thanks Cid, Jackpot!!! that's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for your help.

Great ideas everyone, I'll have to look through the scrap bin to see if there is something of leftover styrene to scratchbuild. I see there's lots of accessories bundled packages with the mailboxes in them but you still can't but them just on their own. Thanks one and all for your help

Hi Squidbait, The LifeLike ones would be perfect but they're not HO unfortunately. Great find and thanks for your help.

Thanks Bob and Santa Fe Jack, Wish the Caboose Hobbies had pictures to go with the links. The Walthers link maybe just the ticket. It sounds like one can't buy just the mailboxes alone so I could use the other Walthers items for sidewalk "dressup" so to speak. Thanks once again. Why I like...

Thanks for all your help everyone. I guess another resource is at the local train show.....but that's 9 months away:( Will keep looking though. Thanks, Heath

Hi Olamat, Perfect, exactly what I want, with one small detail, N and Z scale only, need HO. I must have spent quite a few hours trying to find that in the catalog. Thanks very much for your help, I'll keep looking.

I bought white CN version as I saw this running when I was a kid. My father took me to the train station and we watched it come in. To a kid looking down the track in the summer heat at early evening, seeing the Mars light on it way off in the distance, it looked like an approaching space...

I've looked in the recent Walthers Catlg with no luck. Has anyone found a good resource for a street/sidewalk mailbox? I'm not referring to the individual house mailboxes, I know Woodland scenic makes lots of those, the one with the small newspaper box on a post. The one I'm referring to is the...

Wow, thanks everyone, I'll def look into that before I weather them. My thanks to all.

I'm wanting to remove the sideframes of my SD40 so I can weather them. I was told a while ago about the fragile small clips that keep them together. Are there 2 clips, one at each end of the truck that keep the sideframes together? Does one use a small screwdriver to separate the clips so the...

Anyone else have first impressions of the new Tsunami decoders? How did you program it? With thanks, Heath

<P>Just got my beloved GP9 back and had the old sound decoder swapped out for the Tsunami sound decoder. </P> <P>All I can say is WOW!!</P> <P>Finally I have a Geep that really sounds like a Geep. With the right tweak from the equalizer you can really get a very high quality sound from such a...

Great things to consider from all and I want to thank you. My side rods are painted flat black as I wanted my CN Northern as close to the historic excursion photographs as possible. I think the teflon sounds like a good idea, dry but lubricates. I'm a little concerned about the dry graphite...

Thanks for your help everyone. I know the oil comes with the tiny needle applicator so will give that a shot. I've probably run the loco for a total running time of 2 hours total since I've had it. Don't think it's caused any due wear in that time so before I take her out for a run again, will...

Hi all, Need your help on a "should I" "shouldn't I" situation regarding oiling the external rods, joints and drivers on a HO brass locomotive. Surely metal on metal can't be good over a long time. Not that I'm running it at hi speed, never would, or for 3 hours of constant running every day...

Thanks for all your input everybody, The passengers will be placed in the passenger cars in my steam excursion. I'm trying to recreate the 6218 4-8-4 excursion for a railfan trip back in the 60's when they used to run with the baggage car doors open behind the locomotive. I bought the Rapido...

Hi folks, Just thought I'd get some opinions on if anyone is putting passengers in their passenger cars. I have the Preiser seated passenger people and was wondering about putting them in my cars. Then the other question is alot or just a few. Was concerned that maintenance by lifting off the...

I also have the CN GP9 and an RS18, both sound, both P2K and are good runners so that's why I'm a bit puzzled on the performance of the P2K FA's. Just a thought, could it be the wheel's? Maybe a replacement set of Northwest Shortline wheel set would improve pickup. The wheel's I have on the...

Hi Glen, I bought two of the FA's and two FB's as well. Love those MLW's!! One of them I had a speaker put in with the anticipation of QSI releasing their Revolution decoder. Better quality sound. Have you had any problems with erratic behaviour, i.e. somewhat jerky movement and light blinking...