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I picked one up today. Great looking engine, great sound. The only problem is that the wheel flanges on the engine trailing truck and the tender trucks are too...
29 Jan 4, 2012
8:25 pm

msy
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Group, ExactRail has announced the all-new Trinity TRINCool 64' Reefer in N-scale! ExactRail's N-scale Trinity Reefer is paving the way to a host of...
1 Jan 4, 2012
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Blaine
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Begin forwarded message: From: Rory <d5711@...> Subject: Re: Athearn Challenger Date: January 3, 2012 9:25:31 AM EST To: ChicagoNW <ChicagoNW@...> ...
1 Jan 4, 2012
2:42 am

chicagonw
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I have a problem with my throttle. After initially acquiring a locomotive and start running it, I cannot change the speed on the throttle knobs. I can change...
6 Jan 4, 2012
2:42 am

BRAD PARSONS
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Has anyone had experience with using truck retraining springs to reduce back and forth movement of cars? I am wondering how many one needs per car: is one per...
3 Jan 3, 2012
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I received some 40' MT boxcars in a trade.  They duplicate numbers I already have.  These are RUNNERS, and do not have original boxes, but are in excellent...
1 Jan 3, 2012
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Can anyone help me with pointing me to a fix for my old Atlas/Rivarossi SW's? The wheel flanges are not compatible with code 55 rail. I know these engines...
6 Jan 3, 2012
5:18 am

ChicagoNW
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I am thinking of converting my 140 plus freight cars to body-mounted (BM) couplers but am concerned about their preformance on my smallest radius curve (11...
3 Jan 3, 2012
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ChicagoNW
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I'm trying to track down who did a conversion of the Hallmark Union Pacific M-10000 that came out last year or in 2009. My older computer crashed and I lost...
6 Jan 3, 2012
5:18 am

Dave Lee
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=============================================================================== ALL ITEMS ARE BRAND NEW N-SCALE UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. PRE-ORDER ITEMS HAVE...
1 Jan 2, 2012
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Pat Mac
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All, ***Spend $100 or more, take 10% off prices listed below and shipping is on me (US/Canada only) *** I have the following cabooses for sale: ITEM - ROAD &...
1 Jan 2, 2012
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Brian Crase
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All- I recently inherited an extensive collection of N-Scale rolling stock, structure kits, yard and road stock (i.e. tractor/trailer 2-packs, piggybacks with...
1 Jan 2, 2012
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All, ***Spend $100 or more, take 10% off prices listed below and shipping is on me (US/Canada only) *** I have the following Micro-Train/Kadee cars for sale: ...
1 Jan 2, 2012
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Brian Crase
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All, ***Take 10% off prices listed below; spend $100 or more, and shipping is on me (US/Canada only) *** I have the following locomotives for sale: ITEM - ROAD...
2 Jan 2, 2012
5:58 pm

Brian Crase
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Friends, A C-C PA-1 was my first N scale diesel bought in 1970. It still running today. Thru the years, yes C-C has been a pain and thier quality does...
29 Jan 2, 2012
5:58 pm

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All, ***Take 10% off prices listed below; spend $100 or more, and shipping is on me (US/Canada only) *** I have the following non-MT Freight Cars (see earlier...
2 Jan 2, 2012
5:58 pm

Brian Crase
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I take paypal or money orders,prices do not include shipping, INTERNATIONAL orders paypal only,thanks, gene Maddox NSC# 76-01 75000 Ntrak #1,red & blue (500...
1 Jan 2, 2012
12:33 am

Gene Maddox
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One Each:   42305 Southern Pacific RSD 4/5 rd # 5294 Tiger Stripe 42306 Southern Pacific RSD 4/5 rd # 5301 Tiger Stripe 48030 Santa Fe GP-7 rd # 2693 Zebra...
1 Jan 1, 2012
10:53 pm

George Hollwedel
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Everyone who can afford one should purchase an Ultra Sonic Cleaner. It does a wonderful job on builtup "Gunk" on plastic and metal car wheels. I have found...
1 Jan 1, 2012
9:15 pm

Nato
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Has anyone else had trouble running the illuminated Bachmann Amfleet Phase IV coaches / cafe car? Admittedly, I have rather tight-radius curves in some...
4 Jan 1, 2012
8:43 pm

Phil
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Hi, I hope everyone got their favorite flavor of railroading for the holidays. Please pardon if you get this note more than once. On December 23, our printer...
1 Dec 31, 2011
5:48 pm

Tim Mulina - BHI
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All: I'm an N-scale newbie, so this is probably old news to most of you, but cleaning the wheel crud off of my Kato Amfleet cured a recent track jumping...
1 Dec 31, 2011
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chicagonw
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Hi everybody. I'm a BNSF fan and modeller living in London, UK. Does anybody know if Kato simply messed up with their NScale SD40-2 model of BNSF 6806? My...
3 Dec 31, 2011
12:03 am

msy
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Hi All, Merry Christmas and a question: I have an Atlas NYC GP9TT. It is Atlas #48413, road #5946. It was mase in China and released in 1997. Can anyone tell...
7 Dec 31, 2011
12:02 am

Ron Dugas
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A couple of sources for military vehicles http://www.nscalesupply.com/TT/TT.html http://www.kenraymodels.com/index.shtml mike...
1 Dec 30, 2011
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Michael Sperry
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I just started building and N scale layout and have finished my track work and about half of the scenery. My problem is this: When test running my locomotives...
3 Dec 30, 2011
1:55 am

Daryl Norton
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Other than the ability of the ME to hold its ship versus the Atlas "spring back" designs I would be interested in hearing perspectives on one versus the other....
22 Dec 30, 2011
1:55 am

Ken Harstine
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Steven I didn't see any replies, so let me chime in. I'm also including some other groups in this conversation, so someone else may add on. First way cool...
2 Dec 30, 2011
1:53 am

Rich Zellich
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Hi- I am currently converting an Atlas GP40 to the Kaslo GM Wide/Safety cab kit. The kit looks pretty straight forward, but does anyone have any tips or...
1 Dec 28, 2011
2:38 am

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For the first time I found magnetic knuckle couplers that fit in european NEM sockets. All european manufacturers are using NEM couplers in their recent...
1 Dec 28, 2011
12:45 am

Oscar Moutinho
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