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[quote user="MILW-RODR"]I've seen a lot of model REA box cars in green, were they all that way? I would like to include the green REA box cars and the blue Golden West Service box cars to add color, although the latter is probably out of my era around 1950.[/quote] The REA cars was found on head end of passenger trains or found in mail trains and not in regular freight trains.Yes REA owned cars was green. Sorry,but,SP didn't start Golden West Service till the late 80s.
I would like to see brighter headlights but,I fear that would add another $20-30.00 on the price tag-nothing seems cheap these days-we have seen a $149.95 DCC ready Alco switcher and $149.95 DCC ready GP40-2. At this point I suppose 2 questions needs to be ask. 1)Are we ready to absorb another price hike that will surely come with brighter LEDs even tho' some may not want these niceties? and 2)Where do we draw the line on our request? However,BLI steam locomotives seems to have the brightest
After 55 years in the hobby you still get excited over your newest locomotive or freight car-just like you did with your first purchases.
Dave wrote: Its foolish for the origin yard, maybe not so foolish for the destination yard. Saving 30 hours on one end and then spending 48 hours on the other isn't really a savings from the customer's perspective. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This has been rail/customer issue for years.."Seamless operation"(fancy RR catch word) was the words use during the mega merger era.Of course,after the mega mergers it can still take
[quote user="dehusman"] [quote user="wjstix"]Sometimes it could just be a matter of "filling out tonnage". If a manifest going to say Los Angeles from the midwest had sufficient engines up front to haul say 60 cars but only had 50 in the train, the railroad might take 10 cars from a cut of auto racks going west and add them to the manifest train. This way the RR makes the best use of the available power. [/quote] Maybe in years gone by, but not as much in today's
[quote user="wholeman"] When I attended community college, there was the UP line. I would see unit coal trains, unit grain trains, and some manifest trains. On occasion there would be auto carriers mixed in with these. Why? I thought that pretty much all auto carriers were unloaded at certain hubs and the remaining cars were mixed with other trains that hauled other auto carriers to be distributed at other facilities. [/quote] What you saw is fairly common. Train consists is made up in
Dave,A lot of serious N Scale modelers use Kato's Unitrack simply because its bullit proof.Curves comes in several sizes from 8 1/2 to 28 1/4". You lost me with "The only thing that appeared somewhat toy-like to my eyes was the extreme regularity and repetitiveness of the curve radius." The reason being I seen the same with flex track on smaller layouts..You can make flowing "S" curves with Unitrack as well.. However,most modelers use Untitrack on smaller layouts due
[quote user="modelmaker51"] I have about 400 cars on my layout of which only about 20% have metal wheels (they came with them). I have yet to clean any of the plastic wheels, (or the metal ones for that matter). Just my 2 cents based on 40 years in the hobby. Jay. [/quote] Jay,I can't agree more with keeping the dust away from the layout.. I also base my thoughts on 55 years of modeling experience and a rather lengthy discussion we had on this forum several years ago plus the excellent
Will,Food for thought..Each addition ounce of added weight will cut down on the locomotive's tractive effort... I have often wondered which is the lessor of the 2 evils-going by RP20.1(outdated?) or leaving our cars at stock weight..For me stock weight won out.I can't see cutting the TE of my locomotives and adding extra strain. -------------------- As far as the other type of weight..We should keep that in mind while designing our layouts even if one doesn't suffer from a case of the
[quote user="tatans"] People refer to walthers this and walthers that, so in their online catalog they sell other manufacturers kits, for example, does walthers have a factory where they make products with their name on it, such as building kits etc. ? [/quote] No..Walthers does not have a factory..Like other model manufacturers(except KD) they have their products made by a contract model manufacturer..
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