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Use galvanized stamped metal studding, with foam sheet. Always dimensionally stable indoors, and cheaper in the long run. Good-Luck, PJB

In the 1940s Pennsy ran coal north to Lake Ontario in STANdARD hopper cars and carried iron ore back in same cars. The only difference was that iron ore being denser wasn't loaded to full cubic capacity of cars. B&LE and others did same thing. Some others made use of gondolas in similar...

Bascule Bridge Bascule, or other form of moveable bridges, require some experience , and skill with both making and finding already manufactured components; as well as with fitting it into the layout. They are not a beginning scratch builder's project, unless you bring the skills from another...

Your Layout room is a Helix John: There are several approaches to recreating the WP&Y, and there is also the matter of whether or not you are a realistic p[erations freak or not. You should dispose of the latter issue first, because the WP&Y was not a very busy line except for a brief...

Your Layout room is a Helix John: There are several approaches to recreating the WP&Y, and there is also the matter of whether or not you are a realistic operations freak or not. You should dispose of the latter issue first, because the WP&Y was not a very busy line except for a brief...

TICHY/GOULD Ore Car Assembly I disagree, because assembling both TICHY and the early steel ore hoppers from WESTERFIELD requires placing small amounts of adhesive in a comparitively large numbers of locations, (i.e. relative to the model size). Prepainting unecessarily complicates the...

Electrostatic Grass and Silflor In the U.S. - VINTAGE REPRODUCTIONS, best known I think for their various scenic snow types, sells complete line of these materials. They have no web presence that I am aware of. They are at 2606 Flintridge Drive, Colorado springs, Colorado. Phone is...

In the discussion of 'OO'(76:1) scale relative to 'HO' (87:1)scale, 'TT'(120:1) was brought up. In order to focus on that scale, without confusing matters from the other discussion, I opened this thread to explain the what , and why of the goings on in 'TT' scale. It antedates 'N' (1:160)...

Charles H is absolutely correct. LIONEL , in fact, made 'OO' scale equipment in the Great Depression. This included a scale NYC "Hudson", which is interesting because they also introduced a scale 'O' scale "Hudson" at this time. Both of these locomotives, command astonishing prices on the...

EMC and other "Doodlebugs" Woodie: The VR's DERMs is made in 'HO' scale by STEAM ERA MODELS, in your homeland. So why kitbash Bachmanns to make them? With repect to the initial question, "Doodlebug" is just a slang term for the hundreds of models of self propelled non pure electric rail...

Steve: The short answer is yes. but they ain't cheap. MICRO-METAKIT, the maker of high end fabricated brass locomotives, has/does sell track spikers on their retail website. They sell a few lines of powerpacks,track,and so forth there, that they do not make. Other European makers (...

YRONBAY: Just put some resistance (lamps, etc.)in the circuit between the Powerpack and track connection and the remaining juice will operate your new Bachmann toy train. As noted elsewhere, if you want to do more and stay at running trains, then you should buy other components...

Narrow Gauge industrials/feldbahns Looking for individual plantation lines and similar, can be difficult, but there are many railbuffs around the world who pursue ALL the obscure lines, and the WWW has expanded access to their work. Many feldbahnen,were/are engaged in pretty obscure...

The material Rusty Spike is looking for is known as "Pink Lady" ballast. It is quarried in Wisconsin and sold to CNW. Analogous materials , are also produced and sold under that name as monumental,ashlar, and crushed rock quarried in the Dakotas and around "Big Stone" NWF on the...

This site is a fairly comprehensive listing of the gauges in use on the world's railroads, as well as where, when, and to a lesser extent- what amount of trackage is, or was, in a given place in that specific scale. In this list the term Feldbahn is applied to permanent industrial...

If the 43.5 million(US$) judgement in a US Federal Court in Michigan against LIONEL stands up, it is likely LIONEL LLC will become MIKE's TRAIN HOUSE. The civil judgement secondary to LIONEL's collusion with KOREA MODEL TRAINS, to steal and misuse MTH's tooling drawings, to produce the...

Central Valley made them, with flexible ,detailed copper springs, and you probably can get them from the dealers that specialize in out-of- production models. Jay Cohen and Nixons are on the www as( Jaystrains.com) and (nixonenterprises .com). They are both reliable, and accurate in their...

East Penn Club The East Penn traction group's WWWs have the most comprehensive list of NA traction equipment suppliers. They are at http://www.eastpenn.org Bec-Kit traction trucks with a Bowser body, although Bachmann's Brill tram body is cheaper and as detailed, will produce an...

MONK and the CHOO CHOO Train With respect to this show! The manual switch stand the cops used to divert the train: A) was not locked ; and B) was not connected to the switch several 100 feet away that was used to divert the passenger train to another line that would not strilke the...

PLAYMOBILE If this is a small child , giving him a child friendly and durable trainset from PLAYMOBILE makes sense. If you can afford it then LGB,MTH, etc.- are jazzier, but that is beside the point. Give him/her a workable toy train may make them a model railroader one day. Giving...