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Posted by sleeper33 on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:52 PM
 unfortunately both my pa's r 54 ah well but from wot i've read the chief was only hauled by f's is that right?Question [?]
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Posted by fluff on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:32 PM
yep.....got me a single kato pa off ebay to go with set b. i live on the former santa fe dublin subdivision and thought it would neat to recreate the local passenger train that ran thru here. as luck would have it, the "Angelo's" motive power for several years of its run were alco pa's. my books say one of them was my no. 54........  
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Posted by sleeper33 on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:00 PM

Fluff

I bought the super chief kato set and like u am impressed. with 2 pa's &2pb's it measures 8'

also new to this group so helloSmile [:)]

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:47 PM
I finally gave in to my wife and built another section on my layout so that it can be run continously.  I have to admit that I like it even better.  She wants to start collecting N scale passenger trains, and wants to be able to run them once in awhile.
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Posted by jwils1 on Sunday, November 11, 2007 9:57 PM
 wm3798 wrote:

Bwahahaha!

Soon you'll realize all the shortcomings of Humongously Oversized!  You'll be tearing up that track, and re-building on the same roadbed, but in N scale!!  Long trains!  Giant Mountains!  Huge Industries!  

Yes... it can all be yours...  Now, just stair into your monitor while we all chant together....

Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn  Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn  Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

LeeMischief [:-,]

Whoa......I'm feeling the spell already.  Cant' wait to get downstairs and start the destruction!!

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Posted by wm3798 on Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:02 PM

Bwahahaha!

Soon you'll realize all the shortcomings of Humongously Oversized!  You'll be tearing up that track, and re-building on the same roadbed, but in N scale!!  Long trains!  Giant Mountains!  Huge Industries!  

Yes... it can all be yours...  Now, just stair into your monitor while we all chant together....

Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn  Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn  Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

LeeMischief [:-,]

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Posted by jwils1 on Sunday, November 11, 2007 7:18 PM

Well, I finally did it!  At the Denver train show this weekend, I picked up two N scale locos, both Atlas decoder equipped.  One Dash 8-40BW (BNSF) and one MP15DC (BN).  Also have a few freight cars and some Kato UNITRACK. 

I'm going to start with something pretty small and just get some experience with it.  Don't know if I'll just keep it upstairs in my office or locate it in the basement near my HO layout.  I guess I'm spreading myself a little thin doing both HO and N but I just couldn't resist that neat little N stuff.

Jerry

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Posted by Blue Flamer on Saturday, November 3, 2007 2:47 PM
 njtaxland wrote:

 

Hi, I was just looking thru the replies and I was was wondering somthing, I am in the process of starting a n scale layout sixe 36" x 72" I am using Kato track as I like it how it looks and how it goes to gether so easy. My question is, is there a difference between blue foam and pink foam? I can only find the blue stuff in my area, in sixes of 4x8 sheets ans 2x8 sheets. If I use the 2x8 sheets how do you connect the a 24" wide sheet to another sheet to make the 36" width?

njtaxland.

There is basically no difference between the two, other than the manufacturer. Ether one will work fine, just do not use the white stuff as it is different altogether. If you want to use the 2Ft. wide sheets you will need to support the joint from underneath with a  1x3 or 1x4  and glued together with glue compatible with both the wood and the foam. I would go with the 4Ft. x 8Ft. sheet and use the extra to build up your scenery. Whichever way you do it, be sure to put a couple of wooden supports across the width of the sheet from underneath.  Thumbs Up [tup]

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Posted by njtaxland on Saturday, November 3, 2007 12:33 PM

 

Hi, I was just looking thru the replies and I was was wondering somthing, I am in the process of starting a n scale layout sixe 36" x 72" I am using Kato track as I like it how it looks and how it goes to gether so easy. My question is, is there a difference between blue foam and pink foam? I can only find the blue stuff in my area, in sixes of 4x8 sheets ans 2x8 sheets. If I use the 2x8 sheets how do you connect the a 24" wide sheet to another sheet to make the 36" width?

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Friday, November 2, 2007 11:39 AM
 Cederstrand wrote:

OK Folks, "N" question for you: Can anyone tell me if the motor from a Bachman DASH 8-40CW would be a reasonable replacement to re-motor an old Rivarossi BIGBOY with? Any suggestions (or who I should ask) will be apprecaited. Also, if there is an ideal "stock" replacement motor available for it, would like to learn about that as well?

Thanks! Cowboy <img src=" border="0" width="25" height="23" /> Rob

To be honest, the motors in the Bachmann -8s, at least the ones I had, didn't hold up anyway so why bother?  I still have several left but don't run them anymore.  The wide cabs still run but all the original -840c engines I had more or less died.  I don't use the others because their operation is spotty and they really don't look good compared to my other models from Kato and Atlas.
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Posted by SecretWeapon on Friday, November 2, 2007 11:34 AM
I found it funny that the ONLY N scale layout was owned by a MR staff member. I do believe that if they actually looked behond there borders,they would've found other great N scale layouts.
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Posted by ChrisNH on Friday, November 2, 2007 10:15 AM

I just have trouble finding issues of the n-scale magazines locally. I will have to subsrcibe at some point.

I wish that my local newstands carried some of those rather then the british rail magazines.

Chris

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Friday, November 2, 2007 9:22 AM

I get what you're saying...  And don't worry, I get plenty of inspiration from layouts in other scales.  It was last year, though, when I thumbed through GMR at my LHS and decided that none of it did anything for me.

I do offer, with respect to our fine hosts, that are other places besides Kalmbach's empire to get modeling information and inspiration.

I've recently been re-introduced to RMC and love it again, and I've been getting a lot of RMJ.  Most of the RMJ articles I've been interested were, in fact, HO, but there's a lot of Pennsy in RMJ so it works for me.

Don't forget N Scale and NSR!

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Posted by ChrisNH on Friday, November 2, 2007 8:10 AM

I don't think thats entirely fair. While I do wish they had an n-scale model railroad in there, not just the Naugatuk with some steam rolling stock on it, all the layouts they featured were excellently crafted. Some I had visited and admired on the web in the past. Certainly, that florida shelf layout is not a "monster". I enjoyed some more then others with the Hoosac being my favorite.

I don't understand the Popp article being in there at all.. seemed more like a layout planning issue entry since it was all musings for a plan he never implemented.

There IS a strong bias toward layouts that feature a lot of scratch built craftsman level structures vs other aspects and that does tend to skew toward the larger scales.. 

Chris 

 

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Friday, November 2, 2007 6:31 AM

I stopped getting GMR last year when it was nothing but basement-monster layouts, with only one N scaler.

It said to me Great=Huge to MR.  Now, David Popp's layout is big, not huge, and I like it.  But c'mon.  My hobby bucks can be spent on something more N-friendly.

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Am I out of order on this observation???
Posted by R. T. POTEET on Friday, November 2, 2007 1:23 AM

Nobody has said anything about this years Great Model Railroads so I will bring it up.

I found this years Special Issue one of the best of recent years however I have a difficult time fathoming that Kalmbach/Model Railroader was so bereft of submitted articles of N Scale layouts that they had to default to a rehash of David Popp's Naugatuck Valley Railroad. I will acknowledge that Mr Popp has a very well constructed layout and it is second to none in inspiration but a remolding of the modeled era from diesel to steam was not that inspiring and I would have preferred something else. This layout has been the subject of a feature article in Model Railroader in the April, '06 issue, was the signature layout in Popp's Building a Model Railroad Layout Step by Step, and was extensively covered in the Scenery Step by Step column in Model Railroader while he was editor. Enough already!!!!

I'm a little disappointed; since MR elected to run only one article out of eleven dealing with N Scale I would have at least expected that they would have given us something a little fresher! I enjoyed this years GMR but the N Scale coverage is much like a ham sandwich that has been allowed to sit out on the counter for a couple of days; it is just a mite stale! 

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Posted by R. T. POTEET on Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:23 AM

Cederstrand,

I can't really help you on this one but answers to your inquiry are going to be of interest to me because it involves dash 8-40Cs of which I have a few.

I also have a few old U30Cs; if my railroad's time frame shifts to now the dash 8-40Cs are relevent and the U30Cs are not and I would like to repower the one with the other. Anybody ever do a motor-truck swap of that nature???

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Posted by Cederstrand on Friday, October 26, 2007 3:28 PM

OK Folks, "N" question for you: Can anyone tell me if the motor from a Bachman DASH 8-40CW would be a reasonable replacement to re-motor an old Rivarossi BIGBOY with? Any suggestions (or who I should ask) will be apprecaited. Also, if there is an ideal "stock" replacement motor available for it, would like to learn about that as well?

Thanks! Cowboy <img src=" border="0" width="25" height="23" /> Rob

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Posted by SecretWeapon on Friday, October 26, 2007 2:08 PM
The "N" crowd is cool. Long live "N" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by Cederstrand on Friday, October 26, 2007 2:01 PM

And what is wrong with Postage Stamp trains? Whistling [:-^] Most of my N trains are vintage and admittedly in need of upgrading (couplers). Having aquired some of the newer models along the way, I readily admit there is a BIG difference in detail and running qualities. The new locos are so quite you have to keep checking on them to make sure they are still running. But there is still something enjoyable about hearing the sweet motor buzz & churning gears of some vintage locos, not to mention that glorious smell of ozone they fill the air with. Big Smile [:D]

(confession: Over the past few years I have gradually been selling off many of my vintage trains in order to purchase more state of the art production models. Some old stuff I'll never part with for sentimental reasons, but there are MANY new models on the market today I must have.) Cowboy [C):-)] Rob

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Posted by pcarrell on Friday, October 26, 2007 12:32 PM

You were doing fine, til you got to here.........

 verheyen wrote:
It's a nice scale and it's been fun to do something different from my normal H0.

You see, HO stands for Horribly Oversized.  N stands for Normal. Wink [;)]

Great work BTW!

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My first, and perhaps not last, foray into N.
Posted by verheyen on Friday, October 26, 2007 12:20 PM

Part of a Bend Track based club modular layout. More info is at  <http://web.syr.edu/~pdverhey/eisenbahn/pvmodule.shtml>. It's a nice scale and it's been fun to do something different from my normal H0.

Peter 

 

 

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Posted by Zandoz on Thursday, October 25, 2007 5:53 PM

 njtaxland wrote:
Anyway I have a question for all, has anyone been having any problems with the Kato USA site on the web? The last few days I have tried to get on it but all I get is page cannot be found, I have checked and rechecked the address and its correct.

I just tried it, and it worked fine.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:35 PM
Is anybody besides me doing a switching or out and back type layout?
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Posted by njtaxland on Thursday, October 25, 2007 3:44 PM
Hey sounds good to me, I am now in the planning stage of a layouy, freelance. Not big but well to me it is. Anyway I have a question for all, has anyone been having any problems with the Kato USA site on the web? The last few days I have tried to get on it but all I get is page cannot be found, I have checked and rechecked the address and its correct.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 22, 2007 10:29 PM

Dave

 

I really like your site, and especially the you tube.  Anybody who hasn't checked this out needs to.

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Monday, October 22, 2007 9:18 PM

After a temporary server outage, my website is back up.

Here's a tour of my N scale loco roster:

http://kc.pennsyrr.com/layouts/dvollmer/Roster/index.html

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Posted by Wdlgln005 on Saturday, October 20, 2007 7:35 AM
There's something cool about finding & running an old Postage Stamp Trainset & running it. Brings back a lot of fond memories. Nobody else makes those ribbed trailers that go on a flatcar with side rails. Somebody needs to update the old models with new paint & details.
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Posted by fluff on Friday, October 19, 2007 9:28 PM

i'll bump with my newly aquired santa fe kato passenger car set. in all my years of trains, i never did the passenger train deal until now with set b. they are very nice in my opinion. i also retrieved my old aroura postage stamp set and ran it awhile. the original trix f9 will run wide open at best, but its seen better days. i bought another one, (lighted) at the temple, tx train show a few years back and it runs like a top. n scale has came along way since then!!!!!!!

 

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Posted by Blue Flamer on Friday, October 19, 2007 9:44 AM

Great minds think alike.   Whistling [:-^]

nscaler at 9:21PM and R.T.Poteet at  9:22PM to keep the thread going.

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