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Well the errors are of the same magnitude. It's just people don't consider trains to be important to anyone, and if any does find trains to be important, they're insignificant/sad/pathetic/whatever. The general attitude of non railfans toward railfans is quite disgusting I find. They laugh at...

I've only ever seen how a man wearing powered armor could carry a minigun. The ability to lift one and fire one at the same time would be limited to only those with amazing physical endurance, let alone strength, without such powered armor. Also, with power armor often being powered by...

On an old layout, I solved this by using a battery that was constantly recharged by the power from the track whenever the loco was used, and the power from the battery fed the lighting. A small circuit between the power from the tracks and the battery helped even out the irregular power flow...

Well, the lead loco ended up with the majority of the mangled caboose permanently attatched to the pilot and handrails! I would doubt that a steel caboose would be able to derail a lashup of 4 locomotives moving at that speed, based upon my understanding of the kinetic energy of the momentum...

Funny that, what with railfans being more productive, genuine, decent citizens than a bunch of low life heroin addicts, and are generally much more intresting than a film as dull as "Trainspotting". Just look at the synopsys, good god why was that movie ever made? If it has a synopsys like that...

Yes, Bob Hayden did indeed make himself an ex-Oahu 47 ton locomotive from the Bachmann 44 tonner. If you watch his video you'll be able to spot it in several places. A nice model it is too.

My understanding of these wheel arrangements is that they were A: largely experimental and/or unsuccessful, and B: never introduced to narrow gauge. AFAIK 2-8-8-2 was as large as steam ever got on narrow gauge, and that was what I was referring to. But I could be wrong there... And we need...

Hi jetrock, some good questions there. I'll try to answer your questions in the order you asked them, so that we don't get lost here. :D First of all, no I'm not going to be using the original motor or frame. This will be removed immediately and kept behind as spares for a seperate On30...

Well of course they wouldn't be, as a 2-8-8-2 is as big as a steam locomotive can possibly get. But for someone who is used to working with HO dimensions, anything approaching standard gauge size in O is very large, even if it is small compared to certain other locomotives. Just how large is...

In this thread I will be documenting the progress of a project to convert the bachmann model into a close-as-you-can-get representation of an Oahu Railway 47 ton diesel. The format of this thread will be designed so that those of you who wish to have a go at this project can follow the steps to...

Work started a while ago, this will be the first model that I finish in 7mm scale. The prototype is a 2 1/2 ton Simplex diesel. Very small locomotive, which I suppose the American modellers would refer to as a "critter". Interesting locos in that the radiator was at a right angle to the...