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yup i am, that way i can also use those smelly self powered things by making the overhead and one rail of the tracks the same polarity.

but does anyone know if there is a suitable comfort cab and radial truck sideframes available for the BLI SD40-2? I have an undecorated version that i want to make look like a "modernised" version like that which was proposed for the Alaska RR before they decided to buy MAC`s instead.

looks less neat than the first one, didnt do quite as good a job on the second unit. She will be going to see Pete at some time to get "final fitting" done and then ill take some pictures of the pair together.

202 under test and parked up alongside the as-yet unfinished Boxmotor No.1

piccies!!! here you go guys, pictures of 202 being built, 201 is off with another club member being wired up for DCC and overhead pickup. Modified chassis to fit inside 201`s body Bodyshell with second cab trimmed off the spare shell Mounted onto chassis to enable...

hum, that looks easy to model, just smooth off a GE diesel. assuming it need less cooling fans by the look of it. What sort of unit is it, looks like an early Dash 7 to me.

they are serial numbers 83003 to 83005 - three number options

i think he means the HHP8, not the actual Acela Express consist

Yes we do still have them - we also have what called half barriers which are exactly what their name suggests. They were the cause of a huge accident recently that cost a lot of lives when someone decided to commit suicide by driving around the barriers and then parking on the track in the path...

mixed traffic but much more heavily passenger than freight

not as far as i know, we have a series of books you can get by a company called Platform 5 that goes into very in-depth detail on everything from locomtives to coaches and NPCCS (Non-Passeneger Carrying Coaching Stock - mail cars and such) right down to their build dates, bogies types, numbers...

i would have said in diesel terms the two 6,000hp AC would be the most powerful diesels around. In electirc terms there are quite a few 9,000hp + types in Europe. Tractive effort is a factor of how much of its power the unit can put down on the rails - most electrics are inherently more...

also got a few dvd/books myself - both the PE books and anothercouple of interurbans plus two PE dvds and one on the South Shore which have given me a few ideas for scenery but not really anything plan wise Apart from the major terminal which is already underway - should look something like...

no, havent got that book, going to go and order it! Iva actually been given the book those plans came from! didnt find them very helpful because they were all designed for 4x8 or different type of shelf spaces to what i have. didnt really like anything in it! As for traffic - its mostly...

depends on what sort of traction mode you are going for. Electric, diesel or elctro-diesel.

full list is; Class 150 two-car DMU Class 158/7 two car DMU (we also have a three car version) Class 155 (some of these have been rebuilt into class 153 single car units) Virign West Coast Class 390 Pendolino tilting EMU Class 142 Pacer (probably the worst riding DMU in Britian!) Another Class...

Right - help needed! I have got the boards up and built for the traction line but i can find any suitable plans to build a layout with. All my books seem to just have photos of the stock - nothing on the layouts of stations etc. Ideally id like a point to point line with a major terminal...

thanks mate, thats the sort of nose top shot Chris was looking for! Shows it doesnt have the Amtrak style grabs on it.

Has anyone got a photo of the nose handrail layout of the GO Transit F40PH`s. A guy at my club has got a GO F40 and i am pretty sure that is uses the same Nose grabrail layout as the Amtrak units but he hasnt been able to find a photo of the nose to fit the nose handrails to his unit. The...

I model turn of the century, just using overhead electrics rather than steam