Hello, Saw this group from the latest issue of Garden Railways. I have an interest in primarily 1:20.3 narrow guage but have always had a lot of fascination...
Jan, I see your letter was published in the latest Garden Railways. Beware, it all starts innocently enough and before you know it, you will embark on a...
Hi Lara, and welcome to the group. Many of us model using a scale of 1:24 so in effect the trains are running on 'narrow gauge' relative to the body...
... A "narrow" correction here, Bob: both Denver and Los Angeles were 3'6" gauge, probably due to the reason you put forth. Along with their city system,...
Denver & Los Angeles were NOT 3', but rather 3' 6" (42") gauge. Pueblo, Colorado and San Antonio, Texas were 4' (48") just to confuse things. trolleyira Ira...
I was always under the impression the narrow or wider street railway gauges ere to prevent not steam freights but rather traction freight from running through...
Jan, Guilty as charged on the Denver gauge mistake. I should know better, too. I guess I could always claim I typed it correctly and the keystrokes did not...
Hi, gang. Yes, I actually have my interurban under construction, after thinking about it for a couple of years. I will send photos when appropriate. In the ...
... Well, sir, sonny, let me tell you how it was. . . .since they were in the long haul business, most interurbans sold tickets through their passenger ticket...
I pretty much agree with Jan's comments and he should know, being around when the old timers were new timers (along with me the way I feel somedays). True...
Well, thank you, 'Old Timer!' I have no idea what the prototype did, and I'm free-lancing it anyhow. Just wondered what common practice was, although I ...
Thanks for the additional info, Bob. I suppose if I did some searching on the net, I could probably find someone who remembers if this particular car used...
Gee, it would have been neat to see the small farebox! And I suppose that means you would have also made some small, large scale coins. Of course the way the...
Well, yeah, I was really looking forward to making that farebox. Maybe I'll save it for my steeplecab. Oh, wait, they probably wouldn't have had one ...
... Feel free to upload it directly to our Photo area, but be sure to reduce it in size so that we don't gobble up our file space allottment. ... Thanks, Joe:...
Jan- Thanks for uploading my photo. I do consider myself fortunate to have gotten any parts out of Phil.. I hear his parts will be handled by some American ...
... from ... Bachmann ... The ... you ... Beautiful work Joe. That is a nice headlight casting and the roof ends I am sure made the project easier. I like...
Jan please do not post the previous mistake where I hit the wrong key and sent a message not yet written. Back to the subject - I seem to have become the...
I agree with your gentle observations about MTS Bob, but have a much harder time keeping my temper in check when I think about him having my funds for over two...
Jim- Thank you for the amazing information. I figured it was out there somewhere! Do you have any idea what the Ohmer ticket machine looked like? How about ...
Thanks, Bryan. The headlight is indeed a very nice brass casting, from MTS. The resin roof ends were a terrific help, as it would be a fairly major project to...
Or tokens. I still have a few that my father gave me way back when when the Denver system was still in operation and he rode it to work. ... Gee, it would...
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