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Tinning something means covering a surface with a thin film of solder. The steps I listed above describes how to tin the surfaces. Put a little flux on the surface to be soldered so the solder will flow onto it. Then, melt a BB-sized bit of solder onto the soldering iron tip, and touch it to...

You can drill out the bolster with say a 1/8"-diameter drill, glue in one of those sprues from a model kit (might need to trim the sprue to 1/8" diameter to fit), and once the glue dries, drill it out with a #50 drill and tap it for a 2-56 screw. You can then screw the truck onto the repaired...

REAL easy. Just follow these steps: 1 - clean the surfaces to be soldered, make sure they are nice and dry. 2 - Put a small dab of rosin flux on the surfaces to be soldered. 3 - Melt a tiny BB-sized amount of solder on the tip of the soldering iron. 4 - Tin the joiner by touching the...

Heya, I don't know about your area, but here in New York I can find large sheets of that foam (both pink and blue, I don't know what the difference is) in Home Depot. They are usually 4 feet x 8 feet sheets, 1 inch thick. Maybe the Home Depots in your area might have them. Good luck!

I love that Renaissance paint scheme on the VIA Rail P42 Gennies. IMHO much nicer looking that the wierd Phase V paint Amtrak locos wear. Hopefully one of these days I'll grab an Athearn P42 and paint one up myself. Does anybody make those new VIA passenger coaches in HO?

Putting down cork I thought was pretty darn easy... - Draw the midline of the track on the foamboard or plywood or whatever you are going to lay the track on. - Lay down a bead of latex caulking on one side of the track line you drew. - press the half-strip of cork onto the bead of caulking...

Bah, nothing says "Art Deco" like the Pennsylvania's electric GG1's. Raymond Loewy's Art Deco designs at its finest! :D

LOL, I don't think you ended up in Astoria.. The last station (Ditmars Boulevard) ends in a residential neighborhood, on a trestle 30 feet above the street. Over that station is an even higher trestle, which is the rail line Amtrak and Conrail uses to get out of Queens (the Hell Gate Bridge)...

Well shoot, if you dad already bought you a GP60B, then you definitely need to get some Athearn GP60Ms or spartan-cab GP60s to go along with it. :D The Athearn locos are fine runners, though I prefer to buy BB kits and detail/paint them myself. I bought an Athearn GP40-2 RTR and some of the...

The width is actually a lot more noticible than you think.. Check out the photo of the R44s I posted above: The sides of the cars aren't flat (slab-sided) like the R62 and R17. The newer IND/BMT cars have flared sides (the sides curve out). If you stick two R62 cars together, it won't look...

SWEET! Yep, those R44s do look nice. :thumb:

Just a note on the SIRT... They used IND/BMT-type subway cars, which are a lot bigger than the R62, which is an IRT-type subway car. The IND/BMT subway cars are very long, with four doorways per side. They are also wider, and they can't fit through the stations on IRT stops. The IRT subway...

Atlas does have a B40-8W in HO yep.. They even have the version with the gullwing cab shell (I think ATSF asked for gullwings). Very nice-running loco that one is. I got the spartan-cab B40-8 in Susquehanna and Conrail colors. The GP40-2LW isn't available RTR.. But it's relatively easy to...

Or if one doesn't mind modeling interchange, some Canadian National GP40-2LWs too-- Those have the Canadian-style wide-nose comfort cabs. :thumb:

The Athearn F7A Super Weight comes in either Blue-Box kits (you have to install some parts, no provision for DCC) or in RTR boxes (all details installed and ready to run, plus it has a DCC-ready plug). I would just order the Athearn F7A RTR locos from MB Klein: http://www.modeltrainstuff.com ...

Foam cuts easier than cork, so cut a gradual recess into the foam approaching your turntable, which will allow you to lay the cork into it until it's flush. :thumb:

Hey Dashdriver, Wasn't there a Home Depot near JFK? I think they have those foam sheets in 4x8. Further into Queens, I've been to the Home Depot on Metropolitan Ave. and Woodhaven Blvd. and they definitely have it there. Hope this helps!

Chrisdapos: Well heck, since you model Bunsuf, you really oughta get an SD70MAC. BN was the first railroad to receive those, and for the longest time the Grinstein green-and-cream Executive paintscheme was the face of BN. Kato's SD70MAC is a real nice looker, and it comes in either BN or...

Yes you can. The chalk does become very subdued once sealed, so one has to apply the chalk pretty heavily though.

The product number for that Atlas undec engine I pointed to at MB Klein is #8960. It's DCC-equipped. Look up #8960 here at Atlas: http://www.atlasrr.com/HOLoco/hogp38403.htm It is equipped with a 4-function DCC decoder. (No sound though). Hope this helps. Funny you mention CNW... I got an...