~Kyle
The Mary Lindsay Railroad - Featuring Amtrak Model Trains Your HO Rail Journey Starts Here.........
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K1a - all the way
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Remember its your railroad
Allan
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
QUOTE: Originally posted by tstage RTR? Not always the case. I've bought two Walthers gondolas and a 30' cupola caboose and I've had to trim and hack and change wheel sets and trucks in order for them to be able to negotiate an 18" radius curve without resistance. The details good and they are great on the straight away but the curves still slow them down - the caboose worse than the gondolas. (Proto 2000 trucks and wheel sets resolved the dragging problem on the gondolas.) If Walthers really wants to go the ALL RTR route, they should really consider revamping and/or making some modications to their current manufacturing dies to improve the action of their rolling stock. (The operable word here is "rolling" - under ALL reasonable circumstances.) To me, negotiating an 18" radius curve would fall under the "reasonable" catagory. I'm a kt guy and will remain a kit guy until the last one leaves the LHS shelf for the Smithsonian. I only buy RTR when I don't really have much else of an option. (Hence, why I only have three RTR cars in my collection.) LONG LIVE THE KIT!!! Tom P.S. Pre-drilling the grab iron holes would be a plus. Most of the other manufacuters usually do this on their kits.
QUOTE: Originally posted by AntonioFP45 Guys, Those of you complaining about Walther's passenger car prices need to e-mail or call Walthers so that you can receive the "Walthers Flyer" in the mail, which offers discounted prices on select Walthers products from participating hobby shops and dealers. For the past 4 months, many of the Walther's HO passenger cars have been selling for $24.98 in the Flyer! All I do is go to my LHS, open the flyer and show the manager the passenger car I want and instead of paying $34.98, I pay the discount price. Cheaper than Ebay! Reason I bring this up is that back in the mid 80s, Rivorossi 85ft streamlined passenger cars were going for $22.00-$24.00! No details, no knuckle couplers, no interior! By the time I added details, I could've had $40 invested in that car! So today, we're still not getting a bad deal!
QUOTE: And the Smithsonian probably will hire you to catalog and classify the kits to be exhibited. And maintain the kits in storage he he.
QUOTE: I think thier reasoning for the bag of grab irons is to avoid problems with the pre-installed parts falling off in transit. It's probably just easier to keep track of all the pieces if there was just a bag with the parts inside.
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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Fear an Ignorant Man more than a Lion- Turkish proverb
Modeling an ficticious HO scale intergrated Scrap Yard & Steel Mill Melt Shop.
Southland Industrial Railway or S.I.R for short. Enterchanging with Norfolk Southern.