... Nonsense. The paint scheme is primarily Tanqueray Green and White with a splash of Schweppes Bitter Lemon. After several years of service, the nose is...
... Similarly, I realized very quickly that I had the ladder facing the wrong direction with my study model. Since the New York Central interchanged a lot of...
... I was under the impression that the suggestion was to put the roadbed in place, then build the yard temporarily with Snap Track (meaning pre-fab sectional...
... snap ... . ... I am the one who said I save the $100. I fully got that he builds it first and tries it out. After 45 years in this hobby I stated that "I" ...
In a message dated 6/1/2005 2:13:03 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, BillyDee53@... writes: The paint scheme is a mystery Perhaps it's pink with a large...
Hi Charlie, Here's how it was done on the First District of the Santa Fe's Los Angeles Division, the main line over Cajon Pass, in 1947. Helpers operated from...
Message: 11 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:46:31 EDT From: BillJewett@... Subject: Assigned cars were tracked individually. The system had been in place a...
... ???? How is this possible? Don't trains have to clear the time of preceeding trains by 10 minutes? Or in the case where you're running by signals, isn't...
Kelly and All: The funny thing about Roseville is that it is a large hump yard with a 9 track Departure yard and an 8 track Arrival yard with 2 pull-back ...
Schuyler Larrabee, whom I wouldn't know from a hole in the wall, wrote some pretty unkind things about my response to the fellow who used Snap Track to plan...
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Jeff Aley asked, regarding a string of helpers, each engine with its own authorization to run extra, how they could couple up and proceed downhill together as...
... roadbed in ... fab ... apparent ... biggie ... significant ... Yup. That is what I am doing. No ballast and a few tacks to keep everything in place....
Charlie, Late to the party, but here are a few quick comments... First off, I agree with the solutions offered by George, David & Dave - that your best option...
... with snap track and actually OPERATED it. A 3-D working ... me . . . ... Thanks for the compliment! Actually, I didn't take offense to the other...
... for both legs. In the case of an extra with a "round trip" running order (as in, "eng 405 run extra D to A and return to D") then the statement above can...
From: Charlie Comstock <cec@...> Subject: RE: Re: A/D Tracks Saturday night was the 1st and probably the last op session for a local layout (owner is...
... http://www.bcsj.org/rr/bcsjops/index.shtml Charlie, One other quick item I came across. In your example order No 17, it shows "OK" on the bottom of the...
Thanks Mark, I appreciate your taking the time to look at this in enough detail to find things like this. C. ... Charlie Comstock trains@......
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... I was having a problem with this, also. The problem is Andy is saying they don't operate as one train, and I quote: "It often happened that there were two...
Cowld shombady pleeze pass (hic) da saltschakwer Bill Shanaman Sugar City, Co Modeling New Haven RR in the 1950's in HO scale NCE user since 1999 ... From:...
Could it be that the rank and file employees of the time simply broke the rules and did it the way it was easiest for them? Paul Catapano [Non-text portions of...
... Isn't this the same as if a train stalled on the climb and they brought another train up behind it to give it a shove? Two trains running coupled ...
... sorts ... the ... run ... or ... Apparently in my haste and confusion, I did not make myself clear. I understand that the Santa Fe actually did this. I...
I suspect what you are searching for there, Dennis is the rulebook definition of a train. This is what I remember of the definition (feel free to correct or ...
... an ... coupled ... Umm, yes, I guess so. I don't understand how the rules can allow that situation, either. Perhaps you remove the markers from one of...