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LGB Forney is very versatile.
LGB Forney is very versatile.
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Train 284
Member since
May 2004
From: Redding, California
1,428 posts
Posted by
Train 284
on Friday, March 24, 2006 8:05 PM
Man I gotta get me one of those!
Matt
Espee Forever! Modeling the Modoc Northern Railroad in HO scale Brakeman/Conductor/Fireman on the Yreka Western Railroad Member of Rouge Valley Model RR Club
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vsmith
Member since
December 2001
From: Smoggy L.A.
10,743 posts
Posted by
vsmith
on Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:56 PM
I wanted one of these, even got as far as lloking at one out of the box, but the wife said No Way !
So I built my 16-wheeler from what I had laying around the workshop, more or less. Thats where I am today, scrapping the old to build the new, Lucky Bill gets a spanking new shining Forney, Quote Napolean Dynamite "Luckyyyyyyeeeeee"
Have fun with your trains
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Anonymous
Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts
Posted by
Anonymous
on Thursday, March 23, 2006 3:05 PM
John, this is the same caboose as seen in a picture behind my Porter. It's an LGB shorty woodside, product #46656. I have to agree with you, two field railway cars are not enough. A longer string looks much better.
Kim, I like to think I have a vision when it comes to my garden railway. Hmmm, on the other hand maybe it's those mushrooms I ate last evening. [:D]
GD, hang in there. LGB always seems to have a way of making things right.
Regards,
Bill
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Anonymous
Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts
Posted by
Anonymous
on Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:17 AM
Bought a "DCC ready" LGB Rio Grande Forney two months ago; trying to convert to DCC, but find LGB has not even delivered to our dealers its DCC decoder (or sound) for the conversion. I've got that sucker totally dismembered on my workbench--where it's been for the past 2 months--waiting for the decoder. Haven't even test run it! (Looked at attaching a US decoder, but the LGB 8-pin connector has pins so close I fear screwing it up!) Now I find we won't get the decoder until April at the earliest!!!!! (But I do admit, it's a keen looking engine!)
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John Busby
Member since
April 2005
From: West Australia
2,217 posts
Posted by
John Busby
on Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:48 AM
HI Bill
Now you only need another twenty of those little ore cars to fini***he train[swg]
well not really.
But it does look good.
Is that the FR caboose at the back or something else??
must get some more cane trucks if they are still made thats the problem with the FR stock it may be small but you need loads of it two just don't look right.
regards John
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kimbrit
Member since
November 2005
From: Blackpool, Lancashire, UK
448 posts
Posted by
kimbrit
on Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:02 AM
Very nice Bill. As with all things garden if you like it then it's right. Does look good though.
Kim
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Anonymous
Member since
April 2003
305,205 posts
LGB Forney is very versatile.
Posted by
Anonymous
on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:15 PM
I like to run my Forney with all sorts of equipment and have found it to be very versatile in that respect. It looks good with four-axel freight cars with a large or small caboose, or with passenger cars. Today I took it out to see how it appeared with a consist made up of gable-bottom field railway cars.
To my eye, the field railway cars look good with the Forney.
If you can handle a video clip of about 3 megs, click on this link:
http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/BillC//forney_ore%20012.mpg
Regards,
Bill C.
South Jersey
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