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Can't wait to see where you go from here with such a well thought out start on your layout. Great job on the whole room.--------John R

On another forum, under each entry or thread was a "PM" box. This enabled forum members to ask questions or communicate with another member via, "personal message," without having to go on open forum. Do we have this capability? Bear with me, I'm just not a computer whiz. John R

Maybe some of you will have a suggestion on this. Iv'e just recently gotten a Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0 and a Spectrum 4-6-0. Both are set up for DCC and have the rectangular plug and square plug between engine and tender. The wiring is very stiff and also has to go on one side or the other of the...

Spartalee------- Try Internet trains.com, Hobbyfrenzy.com, or Hobbylinc.com. I have purchased engines from all three, all were set up for DCC and delivery time was just a few days. Good luck, hope this helps---------------John R

First of all, thanks all, for the information. I only have the one engine that needs the drivers darkened and they are big so that should make it easier. What is "neolube"? Never heard of it. Where would you get it? Got my second GP30 last night and spent the evening weathering it to match...

Shows what an accomplished modeler can do with a little help from his friends. I love it because you ended up with exactly what you wanted, a very realistic looking river with a turn under a bridge in the foreground! With trees and underbrush along the banks and good coverage where the river...

There has been a couple threads lately on how to darken the driving rods, but I'm not finding them and I want to ask for a step by step explanation. Seems that there is possibly two or three different products that work? How is it done so that none of the chemical gets into the pivot points? How...

Newtrainer----Your in luck! The others are right, it looks like a 4-6-0. Almost all the railroads used them in the early 1900's according to a lot Iv'e read lately. I just ordered one from Hobbyfrenzy.com. There are three road names to choose from and they look like the one in the photo...

Wayne----We have a sweet little canon and I have photos in a file ,but pics are too big so the system will not let me post them. I tried to follow the instructions on posting pics , but I don't see the "post replay or go advanced" sections and besides, as I said, the photos are too big anyway...

Wayne------Thanks for answering my questions. Are some or most of your 2-8-0's by Bachmann? I'm already quite attached to this engine and Iv'e only had it since this morning. This thing makes two or three different little noises, but none of them sound like a problem, but more like thats how it...

Stuart, or Wayne---while painting the wires and the outside of the tender plug-in, [ being very careful so as not to get paint on contacts, ] I noticed that the tender trucks only turn to one side but not the other. The problem is a very small molded pin on the top of each truck that contacts...

Well, drove up north about an hour to the nearest LHS that has a decent selection of trains and picked up my special ordered Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0. This thing is awesome! This is the best Spectrum Iv'e seen so far, Union Pacific, blackened hand rails, valve gear, etc., with the dark wheels...

Hey, thanks Bob for the tip---My wife's sister lives in San Clemente and we will be out there over the Xmas/ new years week. It's about an hours drive from there to Yorba Linda and I had planned on making it a" see whatever I could having to do with trains week" while I had the chance. Some...

Trainsteve---just looking at the pics again and had an idea. What if you came out from the backdrop, in the center, with a wedge made from the foam, not as high as your present walls. Put a thin piece of foam in the creek bed on each side to raise the riverbed a little, creating two separate...

Thanks Tom, Russ for the info---I have weathered all my freight cars with the tester master paints and I think if I go over some of them with a flat clear they will look pretty good. If and when I get to the point where I need to duplicate a certain railroads color scheme, say on a salvaged...

I have a bottle of the Super Blue, the charcoal black and even the plum brown, for re-blueing or touching up gun barrels. Looked at the shiny drive rods on the 4-8-4 and the bottle of blueing, pictured the dark engine, dark wheels and visualized the darkened drive rods. No dice, anyone know what...

Bob----I have three steamers at present, the Bachmann 4-8-4, a Bachmann spectrum Decopod 2-10-0 and an IHC 2-10-2 Santa Fe. I can hear a very slight noise from the wheels and driving rods and possibly normal motor noise and that is all. All three are about the same and all still pretty new, so I...

Welcome aboard Ed and happy Thanksgiving----I am also relatively new to the forum and I have not seen a more helpful group than this one. I think the first suggestion that they will have is to lay down a couple layers of dense pink or blue foam sheets on your table top. This will provide a...

Thanks for the quick reply, 88fan1----no tinsel, track is temp. set up in workroom. Nothing on tracks, all very visable, but you may have a point on the running two trains to slowly. Also, the four passenger cars pulled by the GP30, have a slight amount of drag due to the contacts for the coach...

Hey Long Island Tom------where did you get that picture of the 4-8-4 that you posted with the polished wheels? Who makes that version? Expensive? I have a great steam train DVD that shows those wheels on the real thing, polished wheel rims and drive rods. Also have a question for Wayne. When you...