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4596 brill27mcb Offline Send Email Dec 1, 2010
3:22 pm
Hi Charlie, Bachmann is recently using a coreless motor? My understanding is they are more susceptible to overheating from stalling, pulse power, etc. than a...
4597 cvlk
n_cbqguy Offline Send Email
Dec 1, 2010
4:59 pm
Nothing that has been released has the new motor yet. The motor is in the new Ten Wheeler..... and I am guessing because of the size of the Peter Witt it too...
4598 promodelmaker Offline Send Email Dec 1, 2010
5:02 pm
Hi all, IHP's N scale CTA 6200-series EL cars are available again. Kits are available at $70.00 for a 2-car kit set plus shipping. Painted assembled models are...
4599 cvlk
n_cbqguy Offline Send Email
Dec 1, 2010
6:07 pm
The Brill and PCC share the same mechanism components, just a different frame halves, so the performance should be nearly identical. The bodies on the newer...
4600 John
aikaioi Offline Send Email
Dec 1, 2010
7:54 pm
How about a 62 foot OE, THI&E, CSB&NI, CN&Z, IC&E,CH&D wood arch window Cincinnati Car Co INTERURBAN car??????? Your West Penn car is a dream come true. What...
4601 Uncle Al
abcavitt Offline Send Email
Dec 3, 2010
5:13 am
First I'd like to say thanks to those who responded to my request for a Shinohara #4 Double Slip Switch. I've seen on eBay many pairs of 'Dummy' McHenry...
4602 Jesse Krol
jessekrol Offline Send Email
Dec 3, 2010
10:10 am
Hi there, I like the Kato couplers: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10027346 They're available in grey and black. There's also a 'working' one that uncouples when it...
4603 Alex Postpischil
albabe63 Offline Send Email
Dec 3, 2010
1:04 pm
Misnomer in the reply...Kadee makes HO couplers. Working N scale knuckle couplers are made by Micro-Trains (wide number of applications), Accumate, and...
4604 Jesse Krol
jessekrol Offline Send Email
Dec 3, 2010
2:00 pm
Sorry, I was in a bit of a hurry when replying. Alex, of course you're right, they're microtrains. I just found out the 'working' Kato ones are actually...
4605 brill27mcb Offline Send Email Dec 3, 2010
2:57 pm
Well, they WERE originally Kadee, then their N-scale products were spun off as Micro-Trains. Kadee also offered N freight cars (built and easy kits) in the...
4606 John
aikaioi Offline Send Email
Dec 3, 2010
10:13 pm
Originaly everything was by Kadee. Then they split the company into 2 ownerships. Most of us in the hobby long enough generaly call the couplers, regardless...
4607 Alex Postpischil
albabe63 Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
2:57 am
Hi everyone- I'm currently in the midst of a podcast talking about traction and I'm representing the N scale contingent. The hosts are interested in doing...
4608 ChicagoNW
chicagonwwired Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
3:20 am
Thanks for doing the show. I can't wait til the podcast comes out. Will you be on the next show? Hopefully, more will join the show....
4609 John
aikaioi Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
4:37 am
As a nonmember of the computer generation "Whats a podcast" John Armstrong ... From: Alex Postpischil To: N Scale list ; nscaletraction List Sent: Saturday,...
4610 ChicagoNW
chicagonwwired Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
6:18 am
Information direct from Apple Inc.…… What's a podcast? Much like a radio or TV show, it's a video or audio series about anything and everything. You'll...
4611 Michal Basta
mikrolok Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
10:09 am
N scale knuckle couplers designed for delayed magnetic uncoupling are as follows: -Microtrains (formerly Kadee) -Accumate (now by Atlas) -McHenry (now by...
4612 Michal Basta
mikrolok Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
10:16 am
Alex, Garth & all, the "switcher" Garth posted pics of is Swiss Tm2/2, in Ncale once made by Arnold. According to Swiss Federal Railways nomenclature, it's...
4613 Alex Postpischil
albabe63 Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
1:27 pm
John- I don't know if the other response was too much information or not... The basic is that it's a talk radio show for the internet. The term 'pod" come from...
4614 Garth
garthah Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
1:36 pm
Michal I posted a few more pictures in the same album of the birney looking into the shell and the weight used to hold mechanism under the shell. There is one...
4615 myamiphil Offline Send Email Dec 5, 2010
3:33 pm
John, A podcast is like a radio station show... only its online. These are unique in that they are prerecorded. You can listen to them online or download them...
4616 ChicagoNW
chicagonwwired Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
4:53 pm
Alex, The most of the time there are from three to five people with one or two dominating the lecture/conversation. It seems like this was a popular topic an...
4617 John
aikaioi Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
5:01 pm
Thanks but I do not have an ipod, a cell phone or anything other than this computer, with XP. It's all Sansrit in Chinese typography to me. Some people think...
4618 John
aikaioi Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
5:04 pm
I guess you could call it a mini convention. John Armstrong ... From: Alex Postpischil To: nscaletraction@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 05,...
4619 ChicagoNW
chicagonwwired Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
5:54 pm
John Listening to a podcast has all the prestige of watching broadcast TV on a 12" set. You already have a computer and a connection to the internet. The...
4620 Alex Postpischil
albabe63 Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
9:26 pm
John- Windows Media Player (should be on your computer already) will play MP3 files. You would simply go to the website of the podcast, download the file, then...
4621 John
aikaioi Offline Send Email
Dec 5, 2010
11:14 pm
I get lost in some if not most programs. I have no desire for music when I use the computer. my wife uses a MAC for graphic work. She feels the same way....
4622 ChicagoNW
chicagonwwired Offline Send Email
Dec 6, 2010
1:14 am
John, You have just insulted two different professions. By comparing artists and graphic designers you have compared gardeners to steelworkers. I have made a...
4623 John
aikaioi Offline Send Email
Dec 6, 2010
2:24 am
no offense intended My wife has done all you say as she also does quite a bit on the MAC. ( Rarely anything like forms.) Probably most of it now. When I was...
4624 John
aikaioi Offline Send Email
Dec 6, 2010
4:25 am
How about modeling the North Shore in N ? John Armstrong ... From: ChicagoNW To: nscaletraction@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010...
4625 Alex Postpischil
albabe63 Offline Send Email
Dec 6, 2010
3:33 pm
I was just thinking last night about this (and other lines modeled) by folks on this list... mainly because I was asked that question on the podcast. I got to...
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