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In addressing inquiries of this nature you need to specify a scale; I will assume you are talking HO-Scale here. Bachmann has a three-truck Shay on the market, the quintessential logger--this is a Spectrum® loke and I guess from reading here on the forum that owners are generally satisfied with them. And then there is Mantua's --now owned and distributed by Model Power--2-6-6-2 in both the tender and tank-engine versions. A lot of your selection is going to be dependent on just what curve radius
Glen, your posting and the subsequent responses to it certainly stimulated my thinking about a definition of a large layout; I read posts like this with considerable interest as I am currently needing to design a layout to fit the first fixed space I have had available to me in more than 20 years. Any definition of "large" is going to be subjective; a 20' X 20' space does not, in itself, sound intimidating--many posters here on the forum indicate that they are working in spaces
[quote user="CNJ831"] [quote user="davec8656"] I'm getting the train table ready once more for the Christmas season at home. Last night I put the old engine of my youth on the track and surprised myself and my wife. It actually took off and ran. This thing is at least 40 years old and has been packed in a box for probably 30 of those years. Well, here is the dilemma. It runs great in reverse, not so great in forward. It will run, but at some point it slows and then stops altogether
[quote user="wholeman"] What is your oldest loco/piece of rolling stock you use on your layout? [/quote] What is the oldest loco/piece of rolling stock I use on my layout? That would have to be my set of Röwa/MRC flute-sided C&O prototype N-Scale passenger cars dated somewhere around 1967-69. These are not, however, my oldest pieces of equipment. That distinction goes to the Varney F-3 and three of the four cars that came with a 1962 train set; I own a '60s-era Rapido Pacific which
John Page, a 1940s-1950s editor of Model Railroader magazine, told of being visited in his office by a mister Vaughn Monroe, a crooner and bandleader of some note of that era. Mr Monroe was also a model railroader and he carried with him when his band was on tour a briefcase which contained a workbench on which Mr Monroe assembled models in his hotel room after the evenings performance. Now this was before the days of shake-the-box plastic kits. In those days when you assembled a kit . . . . . .
[quote user="TomDiehl"] When I saw the title, I was expecting a discussion on aisle width. [/quote] When I saw it I was expecting a discussion on benchwork by a modeler who had yet to discover The Joy of Access Hatches --if you are not rolling on the floor with rib-splitting laughter at this point it can only mean that you did not catch that joke.
I had never heard of this outfit so I Googled it. They've got some interesting products but at the price they are charging I hope they are gold plated. I ran into several items that are listed as temporarily unavailable and others that are not currently available but most of their offerings appear to be available for direct order.
My friend--and you are my friend--you are not applying common sense logic to your problem here; you can't find this missing screw with your eyesight nor can it be found with a magnet. What can find your long gone screw is a couple of pieces of nylon. Out here in " The Far, Far Reaches of the Wild, Wild West " we have these things we call VACUUM CLEANERS ---they may have these things down there in Texas; our women here in " The Far, Far Reaches of the Wild, Wild West " wear
[quote user="ericsp"] I have seen 60', excess height boxcars sitting in lumber yards. [/quote]Yes and they are probably carrying millwork; they are probably not carrying dimensional lumber.
Good job! I wish I had a photograph of my first scratchbuilding/kitbashing--whatever--effort from thirty or more years ago. I too tackled an elevator complex although mine was from the twenties and I attached a feed and grain store to it. I'm not sure exactly what it looked like when I got done but I'm sure that had I showed it to someone they would have reasoned that it really didn't look much like a grain elevator nor like a feed and grain store. My more recent (N-Scale) efforts show