Last year (well a few weeks to a month ago) I may have found the perfect modern replacment Rail Jointers for Treble O Lectric Rail Jointes without having to search the entier web for originals, I used code Modern 100 Rail jointers that were HO, they are "Fine" for Modern Diesels but code 83 may work better, I discovered this after a little curiousity hit me like a train, luckily I had some and it worked out ok, the reason why I say its good (Code 100) for modern diesels is because one's that operate soley on code 55 track probably won't be effected, however the more modern diesels (well more modern then the Lone Star one's) that ran on code 80 will struggle around points, I'm not too sure about this but the latter I'm pretty confident about... it was certianly an interesting experiment, the code 83 Rail Jointers may allow for easier operation on some of the older Life Like Equipement and perhaps may work better with the old Lone Star one's
Speaking of the Life Like's I remember seeing a clip on instagram (He's a Canadian person who I moderate their live shows on YouTube, whom I'm very fond of and talk to them regularly Via social media, and I'm rather impressed with his restorations of older models) the set is of an old Like Like Canadian National HO train set that was a GP38-2 (not a GP40) it was from the Red Green show and that got me Hooked on attempting to recreate the train from that clip from the epsiode, I was wondering if 1) Life Like had a simmilar more common model in N, 2) if their was another manufater that may have one that is older maybe from the (late) 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s, thats DC, or 3) if I had to create one myself, I never really done any extreme detail work like such before, but I'm keen to learn and interested in any Airbrushing tips as having gotten a New Airbrush Recently, and boy am I Stoked to use it.