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Airfix used to do a plastic model of that! Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the HIghlands

Great photo - more info, more info! Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

FWIW Peco do full-size templates for all their trackwork. For UK listers it will cost you a phone call to their tech dept. Not sure about the rest of the world - unless you know somebody in UK who can scan and send. Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

MJark and Fiona - welcome! I know you both want to dive in - but can i suggest you take a small side-trip and read through http://tutorial.caroper.com/ which will help to point you in the right direction, and give you some ideas - above all else, have FUN! Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the...

Vee hev to zay - "Ferry goot, Tovaritch! Vee shell be kippen a verrry glose hye on dis vun!" Mockba Zhtate Trainspoort Ko-odinator

Don - the place to go is <Http:www.railpub.com> a nice guy and a pleasure to deal with. Take a look through the catalogue - I think you'll find enough there to get the juices under control - Ha' yersel' a grand Hogmanay wi' a wee dram! Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

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Another suggestion - a tail track with a left-hand turnout at the left end which forms 2 tracks (a loop) with another LH turnout and a tail track at the right-hand end. What you have now is a central loop with a tail at each end. Your train runs out of the right hand tail-track, takes the...

There was - a good while back - an article in Scale Model Trains, about a British Tube station model that had been done as seen from the back of the platform, which was built using cutaway drain pipe in two sizes. Also either Continental Modeller or Railway Modeller (probably the first one)...

Don't email them - phone them - actually speak to somebody! Re the tank - mould a new one - it isn't difficult, you can make it from Milliput, and press it into the mould - (GENTLY!) or vist your local car body shop and get some fibreglass resin and hardner. Make the mould from plasticine, spray...

I see there is another one on there - with an hour to go as I write Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

One thing that might help - I had a 44 tonner that just purred along running forwards and dragged a bogie, unmoving, in reverse. Vast ammounts of headscratching and a LOT of naughty words finally trurned up the answer. The worm on the motor shaft was slightly too far along the shaft, and allowed...

I wonder if it has to do with the thickness of the layer - could it be that it needs to be laid in several coats and allowed to dry out SLOWLY in between? I seem to remeber that there is something that can be added to slow the setting time. I think balsa might be a problem due to it absorbing...

Sure Tony or you can email me direct chacmool at lineone dot net - and it is up in the land of the Haggis! Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

Jetrock - Sounds good - shortie box-cars/flats and even a steeple-cab based on the Bachmann 44-tonner mech - I look forward to seeing what you come up with. Write it up and photo it as you go - MTI is always looking for that sort of thing!. How about the loop with the Timesaver in the middle...

Tony - just a guess, but are you using live fog (electrofrog) points? they need wiring differently - if you don't have a diagram ring Peco and ask - assuming you are using Peco points. If not I need a track diagram to tell you where you are wron - it may just be that you need an extra feed or...

You can tell I'm not a trolley modeller <VBG!>, although I did consider something like the PE with freight motors, at one time Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

Found it http://www.proto87stores.com/p87stores/movie1.htm this was the stuff I was looking for - did a search on googly under "girder rail" Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

Don't know if this will work - but could you use code 100 with code 55 flatbottom soldered with the head into the web of the code 100 to simulate street rail? Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands

Jetrock -FWIW the tightest curved switches in Peco are Setrack ones (and Hornby do matching 2nd radius switches and tracks) They are, though, code 100. If you want templates to see it they are any use to you, email me direct Shortliner(Jack)away up here in the Highlands (chacmool at lineone...