IHP's N Scale Budd M-1 MU car sets are now available for ordering. The Blue-Stripe sets are being produced first, and the yellow stripe sets after that. Order...
Lately there is a bunch of talk on the O scale lists about the new Corgi Birney trolley's. This got me to thinking about something I shared I was interested...
Hi Chris; I really love Birneys, so I'm definitely very interested in this idea. One thing about Birneys is, though, they're really tiny. I mean, I think ...
The whole area of N Scale traction is wide open. With the appearance of Rapid Prototyping machines the creation of body shells and mechanism parts is within...
Arnold's tiny German diesel switcher mechanism would probably fit. Could always go to a z scale mech, just keep the voltage to 8 v. In fact, I think Los...
Los Angeles Ry's was 3 & 1/2 foot gauge--which is actually how Z scale track scales out for N. The Nn3 guys pragmatically overlook that extra six inches, but...
I had a model of each and talked to the owners of hobby shop that had them made. Detail and scale was very close. They were not designed for any particular...
Being in a different age group than most of this group, I ask why is there such an interest in "cute stuff" in model railroading?. That, to me, is a tinplate...
The line I model, the H&F, ran single truck cars in its city service. I want to be able to include these cars in my modeling - something I can't do now unless...
No offense - Well, I don't know about age group - I am 40 and have about 30 tinplate trolleys of one kind or another - from early Lionel and Carlisle and...
I have a birney shell that I got from Republic Locomotive works along with a white metal insert to replace the chassis of the Arnold Rapido small industrial...
A few days ago someone mentioned the tiny Arnold Diesel switcher so I went looking for it. I can't find it on the Arnold/Rapido site so I was wondering if...
I recently picked up an old Atlas 6-wheel diesel switcher that says "Made in Austria", so this might be an Arnold one. It will work for a Birney -- 12' wheel...
A little update. I think this project is worth doing, so I am starting to, well, do it. I'm thinking this is going to be a great solid modelling project and...
I can take a picture of mine later (camera's in the car). I got mine 8 years ago in Vienna - Arnold item #2066. The overall length of it is about 1.3",...
looks good--say, what drawings are you working off of? fyi, there's some good resources on birneys out there; first of all, there's a whole listgroup,...
Alex- Yahoo! Groups strips attachments from postings. You'll have to send the files directly or post them to the files section for those whose computer wasn't ...
Not all groups/lists strip attachments - the Western MD Rwy group I belong to allows photos in individual posts (strips them in digests). Anyway, the photos...
Alex, isn't this something you can configure as the listowner? But on the other hand, there is a plus side to *not* allowing attachments--yahoogroups will not...
... Not really since I'm not the list owner!! ... In the old days of smaller hard drives the files section was much smaller and limited to doc/text files. The...
I think you are all talking about the tiny 4-wheeled Arnold diesel switcher of the Köf class. They are always for sale on the Ebay german web site. In fact,...
I followed the last link - those are the engines in the photo I posted... -alex- ... neu_W0QQitemZ7388163931QQcategoryZ30656QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZVi ......
sorry these links do not seem to work as they were broken by Yahoo and I tried to reconstruct them but could not get them to work. Can you find them again and...
I finally was able to paste one together to see the engine and no this is not the engine I was referring to. Looks similar but wheels are not in the same...
I haven't seen many of these, but the page you refer to indicates it was modified - but we dont' have a picture from before the mods... My suggestion would be...
