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  • Category: N Scale
  • Founded: Mar 9, 2000
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1915 brill27mcb Offline Send Email Oct 7, 2007
1:30 pm
Just a note that I plan to bring my Tomix-based EasyTrolley "layout in a box" to the Saturday, October 20 meet in the Rutgers University Gymnasium in New...
1916 Ben Scaro
bscaro Offline Send Email
Oct 10, 2007
2:47 am
They're a British style of tram. Nice looking model. They still run . . . or at least they did back in 2002. If you go to HK, they're fun to ride, but make...
1917 Ben Scaro
bscaro Offline Send Email
Oct 10, 2007
2:49 am
Hi I joined this list as I'm interested in making Brill 55 model cars in N. Not traction, but I noticed the old Model Power single trucker has the right...
1918 Alex Postpischil
albabe63 Offline Send Email
Oct 10, 2007
2:59 am
Ben- I don't have easy access to mine for measuring, but they are available on eBay quite often (there's at least one set on there right now). -alex- ... ...
1919 Chipeta70@...
eastwest40 Offline Send Email
Oct 10, 2007
4:08 pm
We are in luck. I found my models and my trusty Flint Model Supply N scale at the same time. Window end to window end is 21 scale feet. That is, the 10 windows...
1920 ben scaramanga
bscaro Offline Send Email
Oct 10, 2007
4:39 pm
thank you for that chuck . . . i will have to see if it's right for a model 55 car. best regards ben Chipeta70@... wrote: We are in luck. I found my...
1921 Bill Robb
bill937ca Offline Send Email
Oct 10, 2007
4:55 pm
It's not a single truck Brill car. It's a home built Toronto Railway Co Class F car. The Toronto Railway Co built its own cars from scratch usually with...
1922 Bill Robb
bill937ca Offline Send Email
Oct 10, 2007
4:58 pm
It's not a single truck Brill car. It's a home built Toronto Railway Co Class F car. The Toronto Railway Co built its own cars from scratch usually with...
1923 ben scaramanga
bscaro Offline Send Email
Oct 10, 2007
5:05 pm
thanks bill. now i look at the plans for the South Australian Railways 55 cars, their ten windows come out at 25' long. The single-trucker may be too short. ...
1924 Jerry M. LaBoda
jmlaboda2 Offline Send Email
Oct 11, 2007
5:14 pm
I am considering the idea of modeling some G.E. 80-86 ton boxcabs like those used by the Canadian National and Butte Anaconda & Pacific. Can anyone recommend...
1925 Gerhard Postpischil
gerhard_post... Offline Send Email
Oct 11, 2007
5:56 pm
... Green Max makes a chassis in several lengths. Only one truck is powered, so the chassis can be cut and spliced to size. I just did a Google search, but...
1926 nick kibre
njkibre Offline Send Email
Oct 11, 2007
6:28 pm
From those pictures it looks like these boxcabs have fairly large trucks, comparable to diesel trucks in size (though with a different style of sideframes),...
1927 Charlie Vlk
n_cbqguy Offline Send Email
Oct 11, 2007
6:46 pm
The Green Max chassis is for conventional cast or fabricated "trucks".... the units that Jerry is wanting are older steam locomotive-like framed "trucks" that...
1928 Nicholas Burman
btransco Offline Send Email
Oct 11, 2007
7:03 pm
Green Max makes a couple of small B-B boxcab locos which would be very useful... one is a GE loco which resembles a bit the CN/BA&P locos; the other is a...
1929 Charlie Vlk
n_cbqguy Offline Send Email
Oct 11, 2007
7:31 pm
Nicholas- I am not familiar with the Green Max units you describe... could you provide a link??? Thanks, Charlie Vlk [Non-text portions of this message have...
1930 Charlie Vlk
n_cbqguy Offline Send Email
Oct 11, 2007
11:24 pm
Jerry- Roco used to make some electrics that had B-B trucks that resembled the GE units you reference, but they have been long gone from the marketplace. ...
1931 Nicholas Burman
btransco Offline Send Email
Oct 12, 2007
1:27 am
Ooops, I meant Modemo!!! Modemo has the boxcabs... guess I was half asleep when I wrote this message. Abs NB...
1932 Bill Robb
bill937ca Offline Send Email
Oct 12, 2007
2:24 am
Modemo box cabs? I've seen Modemo trams and interubans plus a few coaches but never any box cabs. Bill Robb Ooops, I meant Modemo!!! Modemo has the boxcabs......
1933 Nicholas Burman
btransco Offline Send Email
Oct 12, 2007
2:49 am
My goodness, where am I today???? :-S Wher I wrote Modemo, please read Micro-Ace. Cheers NB...
1934 Charlie Vlk
n_cbqguy Offline Send Email
Oct 12, 2007
2:54 am
AFAIK Modemo only makes streetcars and interurbans....never saw a boxcab from them. Kawaii or Arii (now MicroAce) had some hinky little units on an 0-6-0 or C...
1935 jmlaboda2 Offline Send Email Oct 12, 2007
5:24 am
So far the only things I have seen even close by MicroAce has been 2- 4+4-2, 2-6+6-2 and 4-6+6-4 chassis... does anyone know if the 2-6+6-2 or 4-6+6-4 chassis...
1936 Garth Hamilton
garthah Offline Send Email
Oct 12, 2007
10:07 am
Tomytec have announced their Tetsudo Collection #5 of trams for delivery in January. Check out Hobby Search for details. regards Garth...
1937 ben scaramanga
bscaro Offline Send Email
Oct 12, 2007
1:42 pm
Garth and others I was pleasantly surprised to find that the TM02 electric cars had the right style of windows and doors for the Brill model 55 cars. My two...
1938 Nicholas Burman
btransco Offline Send Email
Oct 12, 2007
2:55 pm
The loco I have is M-A A2701, Ohmi Railway "ED14-1 type". The prototype is a GE boxcab which ran (runs?) on the Ohmi line near Osaka. The model is stretched...
1939 Garth Hamilton
garthah Offline Send Email
Oct 12, 2007
3:54 pm
Did this too early this morning and I have not got it right Hobby Search has received Tetsudo Collection #5 and they are taking reservations for #6 due in...
1940 nscaletraction@yahoog... Send Email Oct 12, 2007
4:39 pm
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the nscaletraction group: The New Haven EP5 has never been modeled by a mfr. in n-scale. Overland...
1941 Gerhard Postpischil
gerhard_post... Offline Send Email
Oct 12, 2007
10:06 pm
... I don't know how to respond to this. My vote is NO unless it's available undecorated, so I could paint and letter for the Virginian. Gerhard Postpischil ...
1942 Roger Dedrick
gnpacific Offline Send Email
Oct 13, 2007
1:29 am
I don't think Undec/Unlettered would be a choice. Other than the obvious McGinnis NH scheme, the only other possibility would be the all black PC version. You...
1944 teamsavoptonlinenet
teamsavopton... Offline Send Email
Oct 13, 2007
2:28 am
... like those used by the Canadian National and Butte Anaconda & Pacific. Can anyone recommend a chassis for such a model? Below are some links to images of...
1945 Ben Scaro
bscaro Offline Send Email
Oct 13, 2007
7:28 pm
Hi I am wondering if it is possible to move the pickups on the Tomytec TM03 chassis so that they sit on the inside of the wheels ? I'm also wondering if anyone...
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