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Unloaded! A follow up to my picture of the coal and haggis loads: I went downstairs today and noticed that one wagon was turned over and both wagons and the bucket were empty! There were no bits of load anywhere in evidence so it wasn't the cats. There was evidence of small animals -- I'll need...

Robert: I'm not sure what a British equivalent to NMRA would be. The outfits that came up with their "standards" isn't the same sort of club. I'm not sure if BRMSB actually exists! NEM at last is currently active. CARM is a group of modellers that were dissatisfied with the way NMRA serviced...

One of our elderly cousins was bitten by a brown recluse in mid-Michigan. Be careful by your woodpiles.

According to Schroedinger, the noted cat abuser, the fridge light is neither on nor off until someone open the door and looks at it. :confused:

I don't know anything about this, but is it possible the sheets were some standard size, say 4x8, before being corrugated? (I'll admit to not having read the references either.)

The wires for the tracks go on the posts marked DC for tracks. Most people use smallish wire -- smaller than lamp cord, often called bell wire (not to be confused with telephone wire). Larger wire would work if you can fit it in the terminals. Smaller wire like telephone wire may also work; it...

On some of the older stock (mine is 1950s vintage) the rivet is held with a C clip above the floor. On mine, this meant removing the floor or floor section that held the truck; if you're lucky there are screws holding it, but one of my gondolas had metal tabs on plastic posts and on my whistling...

Could you get a short length of gold chain or wire and make spikes out of that? Bend wire into and L shape or straighten out a couple of links. For a fancier effect, beat a head on the wire before bending. Don't forget that gold spikes were removed almost immediately after being installed. I...

Tetters: I hope the whole crossover isn't in short pieces from cutting the gaps. Are you setting it so all 4 sets of points change at once or did you isolate all the frogs?

Power didn't always increase with time -- there were always applications where a less powerful loco would be more economical. Early passenger diesels were often given 2 engines, apparently in case one failed, while freight locos went with a single. If you went by these criteria, the GG1 would...

Fortunately, mine is painted in standard Great Western colours. :wave:

Ron: that looks like what I need. The conversion they use for illustration shows all the features of my trucks. Now if I can just get the financing authorized...

Thanks squidbait. I was trying to remember that name. (I was tending towards Gaiety). I looked in my Triang book, but they showed one with early BR herald and Mk 2 couplings. And now I know that mine is the later Trackmaster version, where everything became cruder.

Thanks Mr. Goat. As far as I can see, thr's no white metal on the car -- all brass. My worry would be soldering the truck back together!

The FA is a very solid cast metal shell. The drive is an open frame motor on one truck, 2 gears down to the drive shaft and a connection to the other truck. The coupling on the N2 doesn't look like Triang -- it's just a loop, closer to the pre-war HD, but without the prongs. It could take one of...

It seems ridiculous*, but a 3 amp fuse will blow at >3 amps whether it's the 12 volts in our trains or cars or 120V in the mains or 600V in a streetcar** system. Could probably blow on a 1.5V battery. You don't need the expense of a 250V fuse, but since you already have them ... * I think I...

The other loco is a British Railways N2 tank engine, ex-LNER, Exx-GN. Again, not sure of manufacturer -- dealer said Triang but I don't think so. Not Hornby Dublo. Note that it's clockwork. The lettering suggests sometime after 1948, but not much past the early 50s. The N2 class ran suburban...

I have 2 contenders for oldest loco on my layout. I don't know when they were made, exactly, as they were second (at least) hand when I found them. First a cast FA. No manufacturer name anywhere. Sorry the first picture isn't the best. The othr picture shows the underside and you can see where...

Now my car has a problem -- not surprising as it's 35-40 years old. One of the gears in the train on the powered truck has split.The car runs one wheel turn in either direction. Adding to the problem, the truck is assembled with nice small screws that are hard to access, until we come to the...

This is an old Suydam model of a PE work car. When PE changed from wheels to shoes for overhead pickup, there was a lot of friction created with the wire. Their solution was this wire greasing car. The middle pole was for power. The ones at the ends had a tube below the shoe that held a stick of...