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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.
I would be careful With Alco. They stopped RS-1 production in America in early 50's but kept making RS-1's in Canada up to the introduction of the Century (C415, C420, C424, C425, C430, C628, C630) series in 1963 or so. The Century series ended around 1970ish with the end of Alco locomotive production. The National Train Museum here in Green Bay has 2 BL2's, although they are NOT kept on museum grounds. Just drove by them today in fact. One is a Bangor & Aroostok, the other I forgot
4-4-2? Now that would be a goofy looking steamer....oh, wait. Anyone want to do a quick decoding of passenger car lingo? All this 4-4-2, 10-5, 3-2-1 stuff is unnerving. I prefer the simple coach, business, lounge, dinner, observation, dome cars, but I'm sure I'm missing out by not understanding all the sleep, roomette, drawing room stuff. What was the point of a drawing room anyways?
I want one of them one of them a rotary, one of those ones made from old gondola's or steamer tenders, and one of those RS conversion ones. I haven't seen any of them yet in N scale, except the gondola conversion one which was a kitbach of an old gon with a scratch build of the plow, and actually I think that was HO scale. Course now I just want to head home and crack open the Jan '08 MR with the Utah Belt article about snow plowin.
[quote user="wm3798"] [/quote]I like it. Now what's it supposed to be. I'm so new I'm not even really in the game yet besides some N scale things and a few HO items from the budget bin that were too good a deal to pass up. The big thing that backs me away is what ws mentioned, the cost of the kits. Like walthers RJ frost, I don't care for the building, in fact if i built one it would be made from DPM modular sections and be about twice the size, only 2 story, but then it
Wondering how motive power has compared over the locomotive generations in amount of tonnage an engine can pull? As the same question, how did the amount of tonnage an engine can pull compare between a 4 axle unit and a 6 axle unit of the same model? Particular engines of interest are F7, GP/SD7, GP/SD9, GP30, GP38, GP/SD40, GP60, B/C40-8, RS3, B/C30-7, U25B, C420, C424, C628
[quote user="Paulus Jas"] hi, add some extra length for the couplers, and your passing siding must be almost 4 feet long. And when accepting a 1:3 ratio you will apply a 3 x 6.375 = 19" radius. Paul [/quote]Thanks for that tid bit Paul, it's helpful. I've reskinned a few curves in plans to larger curves for modern engines but forgot about the longer modern equipment. What length should be used for coupler length? It was mentioned but no number given. My XtrCAD program keeps
You should explain what 55n3 is first.
That was very technical DP. Almost too technical, but I did get more insite. Appearently I didn't know the basics, I knew the utter basics, the fact the axle motors are used as generators to create an electrical field that slows down the axle with essentiall electro-magnet force and that juice was fed to a frid and turned into heat. I knew trains had a seperate control to turn the db on and off but I didn't know they had seperate..um..throttle control for lack of better term. I will how ever
HO = 87.1, N = 160 HO/N = .544375, 54.4375% anything HO multiply by 54.4% (.544) to get N N/HO = 1.83696, 183.696% anything N multiply by 183.7% (1.837) to get HO 4x8 HO works out to 2.176x4.352 feet. A better figure would be to go 2x4 1/4 feet. If going with 4x8. One thing to consider, an 11R curve will be 22 inches across, plus about 5/8 inch for the half track past the centerline on each side of the curve, would be 23 1/4 inches. This is also assuming that the display/track area of the coffee
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