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figuresnbits.com - The place for figures and details offers a fairly comprehensive selection of 1:48 AND 1:43 scale figures. I continue to search for 1:48 figures Cheers from the Heart of the Continent Will

THE BACKROUND: While perusing some of the other forums and some other websites it suddenly occurred to me. I used to envy the On2 equipment I would see in the magazines but I was a kid and couldn't afford it. Then as a teen, girls and cars were the prime target for fund expenditures and I didn't...

Good news. I have now found another extremely limited range source of 1:48 scale people. I shall continue to go where many many people have gone before. My "yankee" stubborness will not let me surrender to 1:43. When I feel I have collected all "reaonable" sources of 1:48 scale figures I shall...

Thanks stump 7. When I can I will take the photos of the Superior north shore pulp ops, and post them. Cheers from the Heart of the Continent Will

Thanks folks. Now curiosity drives me to pursue this question. I hope to get to Kenora, Ontario this coming spring and if I can convince my wife, 3 children and a dog we may get further into North West Ontario and stop at some nice smelly pulp operations. At any rate I will most certainly take a...

Hi sumpter. I also have the shay. A long time ago MR had an article about `baby`shays (24`gauge`) and that diverted my attention from Forneys enough to investigate them. I know the gauge I am using is 30`as opposed to the 24`gauge that got me hooked, but cost and time prevail and 30`is `close...

Oh Boy Thanks folks for the help. It is a bit discouraging. If only Bachman hadn't produced that lousy (sour grapes lousy)but affordable to a regular human SR&RL Forney I would still be safely isolated in my 1:87.1 world. Perhaps I should say Thanks Chaps. Pragmatically and prima faciae I...

Thanks sumpter. There are two sites I "googled" that refer to the practice of hauling the pulpwood to a river or lake landing and then rafting them down to the mill. I am beginning to suspect it is a case of geographic circumstance affecting practice. The sites are , Early Logging Operations...

Chainhauls and ponds are prototypical for timber/lumber operations. All the sources I've encountered to date suggest that for pulp & paper mills, only trucks or pulpwood cars are used to haul the wood out.That's fine BUT they all appear to simply dump the pulpwood logs into piles on the...

P.S. Anyone want to buy a Harlem Globe Trotters Beginners Kit? Cheap!

If an item is advertised as being "O" scale AND it comes out of North America (say Baltimore Maryland), then it would be reasonable to accept it as "O" scale, 1/4" = 1 foot, 1/48 proportion. This is NOT TRUE. I am a newbie to North American "O" scale. I bought a pack of Life Like "O" scale...

Thanks Triplex! NOW I can say, "Oooooh! That 250!". Nice looking mallet. Cheers from the Heart of the Continent Will

p.s. It was an issue of model trains my dad gave me that tickled my punny sense and that is how I came up with MT Hopper, didn't know about the minkey p.p.s I am guessing the Sumpter is a reference to the Sumpter Valley Rail Road, but the 250 beats me

sumpter250 Perhaps you can help? I have "volunteered" to help my 1:35 scale military modelling brethern add some "animation" to their spring displays. The animation since I am the train guy is to be in the form of a 1:35 scale WWII Henschel 0-4-0 60cm gauge locomotive and a few cars. I have been...

Thanks hmas. Yes HO track and gear theoretically in 1:35 scale works out to be 22.76" or near 600mm gauge. Cheers from the Heart of the Continent Will

hmas, Mountain Man Would either of you know a source from which I might buy a three view plan of a WWII Henschel 600mm gauge 0-4-0 locomotive? I "need" to build a 1:35 scale model of the aforementioned locomotive. My friends are IPMS 1:35 scale military modelling types and I "offered" to provide...

Sluggs Regauging Sluggs please excuse me but i'm uncertain as to whether you are trying to get all your equipment to run on On3 (36" gauge) OR are you trying to set it up for On30 (30" gauge) ??? Cheers from the Heart of the Continent Will

Thanks fsm1000. Being new to the internet and to On30 I had a Homer Simpson "Doh!" moment and then went to the NMRA web site. Their standards appear to coincide with your practices. Cheers from the Heart of the Continent WILL

Thank you all for your help. I'll go with using the NMRA On3 a.k.a. On36" gauge clearances. Cheers from the Heart of the Continent Will

Being a newbie to On30, and to therefore try to plan a layout, I would like to know if folks use On3 gauge or O standard gauge clearances when laying out their track plans? I am running three Grandt Line Porter 0-4-0 's a B-man Forney, and a B-man Shay so far. I would like to run a B-man 2-8-0...