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In HO, you can buy rail joiners with wires soldered to them - then you can simply attach them to your track in the usual way and run the wires to your power pack. And if you aren't afraid of a soldering iron, you can simply solder wire to the bottom of rail joiners and viola!

Here is a nifty free picture utility that you can resize pictures with, among other things: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/967963863/1 Irfan View - I highly recomend it.

E gads! 10-12 inch radius? You should be in N-scale not HO! Yes, a two axle loco like the Botchmann 44 -tonner would probably work and nothing longer than 40' box cars.

Ya ya! Xuron or Dremel with cutoff disk... wear eye protection cause those discs have a way of breaking apart.

Yeah, that is what I've heard - problem is with P1k is there aren't many choices - I have never bought any because they don't make any which are appropriate for the Rio Grande - especially post 1970 Rio Grande. I realize they painted their F3 for black Rio Grande, but it isn't the correct...

you know what happens, layouts have a tendency to grow and grow and grow and ... [:D]

You've got Proto 2000 and KATO. I can't recommend Bachman for many reasons, but the other obvious answers are: -Atlas (duh!) -Athearn Genesis -Stewart -Athearn RTR series I don't own any Proto 1000, but reviews say they are very smooth which is nice for an economicl loco. Stewart F units are...

Happy Days for GE fans! But Rio Grande owned no GE's after the 1960's - so I'm still pining away for an updated HQ tunnel motor!

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That was my first thought - I mean Lionel has made only a couple engines in all time. They ducked in and ducked out years ago with a GP30, and now they ducked in with a steam engine and recently quit HO a second time. Yeah, but for polls you need to narrow down to the major players...

You should remove Lionel from the HO poll and replace it with Intermountain... Lionel is only marginal in the HO scale - Intermountain is major! For me, it's kind of a toss up between Atlas and Athearn because I love the Genesis freight car and my new RTR SD50's are nice too. I'll give the...

I didn't see the Eel River 60' PC&F beer cars - they are the only ones I have. Coors beer to be exact.

Brake fluid, Pine Sol and some commercial products like Chamelion are used. It's always good to ask because some methods can ruin a plastic shell or make them brittle.

Typically, modular layout curves are minimum 24-inches and often much larger (for the more recently built mod layouts). I designed and helped build the corner modules for the Syracuse CNYMOD layout displayed in Springfield and Syracuse shows. Those have 36-inch minimum radius curves. I was at...

Rus is right about the Athearn heavey weights and MDC harrimans. They are "shorty" cars - IOW, they are not scale models of real cars, but short models made to approximate the "look" of real cars - shortened to work on sharp curves on small train sets. Russ's suggestions are very good about...

Good advice from Larry, As far as RTR cars go, most of them have been available in kits. Surely they have parts from the kits? If not, then a visit to your local train show should yield you either parts or maybe you could pick up a few kits cheap to supply yourself with some spare parts...

Yeah, While I never paid close to MSRP, I really could have saved a good chunk on those Genesis F units. I used to pre-order loco's regularly with MB Klein, something that disenfranchised me with my LHS when he found out by reading it on the forums. So I guess I won't be looking at the used...

Very true! I hope Steve is at least on the payroll of Bowser now as a p-t consultant. This often happens when people retire from f-t work. Amen that Stewart excaped Horizon! I'm not liking what happened to Athearn since Horizon took over. They've locked out many hobby outlets and the...

I'm pretty sure the IHC cars have "talgo" truck mounted couplers, as is usually the case with plastic passenger cars, especially full-length cars (85' typically). As for your question about couplers via body mount: Part of the answer lies in what minimum curve radii you are using. Traditional...

I'll start off by saying I have been in the hobby for years, but haven't purchased from many/most of the plastic passenger car lines - only Concor and Walthers. Right now I own a brass California Zephyr made by Kumata and imported by Challenger/High Country Brass/Oriental Ltd (all the same cars...