NVSRR There is a good number here in philadelphia. They recently got new ones Wolfie
There is a good number here in philadelphia. They recently got new ones
Wolfie
Yup. Besides San Francisco, Boston and Philadelphia, Seattle and Dayton have functioning trolleybus systems.
Andre
A few HO detail items for a representation of modern Florida;
Trevor
Paul3realistic wireless DCC throttle
Russell
Form my childhood days with my Lionel trains, I miss having the operating log loader and coal tower with operating cars that unloaded as well using a special piece of track It could uncouple cars as well with the push of a button. I also had a crane with a magnet. No doubt with today’s manufacturing capabilities they could be made to look more prototypical.
I still think in the track uncoupling should be possible ala Lionel's method.
Just my worth.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
1940-50's fire engines. My fire station seems kinda barren at the moment.
Ready to run 1930's, & 40's vehicles. Maybe the 20's too now with Jordan out of business.
Mike
I will endorse Mister Beasley's crossing gate views.
I'm working on a module with a street that crosses the tracks. Being Free-mo, the crossing is about a foot away from the viewer.
I would like a crossing gate that is as good as the BLMA signals I've been installing. Which means just about perfect. I want the gates to go down smoothly and properly. I don't want a little arm sticking up from below. I want the FOUR flasher heads per signal to be scale size. And I want proper lights on the gates--that flash or not as appropriate. Also (close to) scale size.
Electronics I can deal with on my own.
And, as I've said before, I'd pay big bucks for one. Being as I only need one. Pair.
Ed
superbe I still think in the track uncoupling should be possible ala Lionel's method.
When you say "in the track uncoupling", I'm assuming you mean that you want a 9" long straight section of track with an electro-magnetic uncoupler that does not project below the bottom of the ties. Like the classic Lionel UCS:
Or perhaps, as with Kato track, not below the bottom of the ballast. That looks a bit tricky in HO, but maybe........
But of you're not requiring the "flat bottom", Kadee DOES make an electro-magnetic uncoupling ramp. But ya gotta cut a hole in the plywood. Which isn't as hard as it looks:
Simple list.
Normal every day cars and trucks for the 70s,80s and 90s time period.
Back saver switch stands.
Working derail for industrial sidings.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
7j43k superbe I still think in the track uncoupling should be possible ala Lionel's method. Something like this?: If you want, you can add a round red button and pretty much recreate the Lionel. Ed
Something like this?:
If you want, you can add a round red button and pretty much recreate the Lionel.
Ed,
I'm familiar with that method. With Lionel it was a piece of sectional track wired for the purpose. No cutting a hole on the layout, just snap it in place and run the control wire to the facia.
Installing the under track system is too much like work.
Thanks for your reply.
Two items from specific companies.First one is Walthers offering all of their HO building kits in N scale.Second is Woodland Scenics adding the DPM HO modulars to the N scale line.
One for any vehicle manufacturer would be a much larger variety of late 1940's to the present day cars and trucks in all the usual scales.
An Amtrak style station, vehicles in the 1940- 1990s more variety than trucks. More semi trailers than railroad names. Traffic lights, parking lot lights.
Bring back the BLMA signals, billboards, etc that we all miss.
All N.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
chutton01 Forget vehicles of the '70s and '80s, I need HO vehicles from the '90s till today.
Forget vehicles of the '70s and '80s, I need HO vehicles from the '90s till today.
Atlas makes vehicles in your time frame.
But what we really need is 1970s cars and pickups for all those open auto racks from Accurail and Athearn Genesis, the latter just hit the shelves. You 90s and latter guys have fully eclosed auto racks ahem so us 70s guys need common cars and pickups way more.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
riogrande5761 chutton01 Forget vehicles of the '70s and '80s, I need HO vehicles from the '90s till today. Atlas makes vehicles in your time frame. But what we really need is 1970s cars and pickups for all those open auto racks from Accurail and Athearn Genesis, the latter just hit the shelves. You 90s and latter guys have fully eclosed auto racks ahem so us 70s guys need common cars and pickups way more.
Printed inserts for enclosed auto racks N ans HO
https://www.digcomdesigns.net/
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.
Everybody should know by now what I want.
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A brand new HO scale bulletproof industrial grade flawlessly operating track system.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190 Everybody should know by now what I want. . A brand new HO scale bulletproof industrial grade flawlessly operating track system. . -Kevin .
All you have to do to get that is switch to Marklin trains......
While the HO hobby has surely changed in the last 20 years, it still remains largely rooted in being able to build things yourself, or at least install, modify, adapt and tune a number of the different elements yourself.
If all the products were toy like plug and play, I would get out of this hobby........
Short of a toy like track system like Marklin or KATO, all track will depend on the skill and patience of the installer to perform at its best.
Atlas works fine for me.........
Sheldon
7j43k I want the gates to go down smoothly and properly. I don't want a little arm sticking up from below. I want the FOUR flasher heads per signal to be scale size. And I want proper lights on the gates--that flash or not as appropriate. Also (close to) scale size.
I used the NJ International flashers and gates with the Rob Paisley activation circuit. The circuit lets me put the sensors a good distance away, so the lights come on and the gates drop with a realistic time frame. I drove the gates with one Tortoise machine for the pair of gates, using Circuitron's remote activators, one for each gate. The NJ International gates don't have flashing lights on the gate arms, but they have everything else and I'm happy with them.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
N scale gusset plates.
Scratch building truss bridges is tedious enough.
I don't know if I can get myself to custom fabricate all those tiny gusset plates again.
I don't think this would be an issue if I still had my teenager eyes, but I don't, so it is. Chuckle chuckle.
N scale code 55 double crossovers and single and double slip switches
MisterBeasley 7j43k I want the gates to go down smoothly and properly. I don't want a little arm sticking up from below. I want the FOUR flasher heads per signal to be scale size. And I want proper lights on the gates--that flash or not as appropriate. Also (close to) scale size. I used the NJ International flashers and gates with the Rob Paisley activation circuit. The circuit lets me put the sensors a good distance away, so the lights come on and the gates drop with a realistic time frame. I drove the gates with one Tortoise machine for the pair of gates, using Circuitron's remote activators, one for each gate. The NJ International gates don't have flashing lights on the gate arms, but they have everything else and I'm happy with them.
They are pretty nice, for sure. But I think they can be done even better. Before BLMA did their searchlight signals, there were some pretty decent ones. The BLMA are darn near scale perfect. Which is what I want in a crossing gate.
Water Level Route Ready to run 1930's, & 40's vehicles. Maybe the 20's too now with Jordan out of business.
I'd like '20s and '30s vehicles, too.
Gary
Smaller sound decoders, smaller keep alive capacitors. Easy to install battery power. A steam locomotive specific radio controled throttle. A real easy to use operations software that actually works as advertised.
LensCapOn "Other Than Locos or Rolling Stock What Would You Like to See be Made" Coupler springs that don't spring away going Weeeeee! at the first attempt to install. Please note you didn't ask for what's possible, just what people want. (And I CAN'T be the only one who wants this...)
Coupler springs that don't spring away going Weeeeee! at the first attempt to install.
Please note you didn't ask for what's possible, just what people want. (And I CAN'T be the only one who wants this...)
I have extra springs you can have if you are willing to find them in my carpet.
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
NevinA steam locomotive specific radio controlled throttle.
It's early and I have only had one sip of my coffee and my brain is still off. Your idea intrigues me, can you expand on how it would be different?
Thanks
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I could use agriculture bins and workers picking fruit from trees.
That citrus is beatiful!
I guess "Citrus Chanker" and "Greening" never infected California. I hope they never destroy your citrus industry like happened to us in Florida.
There are many modern combine harvesters available in HO scale. I would like a model of the Massey-Harris model 21A combine harvester. This was used during the 1940s and early 1950s in both the US and Canada. Just right for those of us who model the transition era.
A kit for Irvine Train Station!!!