The Springfield Train Fair will be held on Sunday, April 11, 2010 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in the Orr Building. Hours are 10 am to 4 pm. This is a...
on Tue 1 Sep 2009 Tracy Bailey wrote: The Springfield Train Fair will be held on Sunday, April 11, 2010 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in the Orr Building....
Hi Graeme, Apologies for delay in replying, away on holiday for a few days. Certainly at child's eye level which means they can see the twinkling (well...
Dear David, Never seen or used those before, I personally use a "HomeBruise" unit, C/o a circuit at Rob Paisley's "Misc Electronics for Model Railroads"...
... I've looked at such systems but it requires gapping the rails and having bogies with metal wheels on both ends of the train, or more gaps and selector...
The Sep, 2009 issue of Model Railroader, p64, has a beautiful G Scale Micro Layout entitled An Industrial Layout in a Box, by Brian Rudko. The layout is 2' x...
This is probably not very helpful, but I have three Heathcote special effects modules (Fire Effects and Welder Effects), in my layout, and they work very well....
I haven't time or space to build large layouts - so small and micro are the answer! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Dear Don, "... The problem is where to put the fiddle yard? ..." Um, by definition, the carfloat <is> the fiddleyard :-) Seriously, the freightcars coming...
on Monday, September 07, 2009 9:42 PM, loggingloco1 wrote: Dear Don, "... The problem is where to put the fiddle yard? ..." Um, by definition, the carfloat...
"The problem is where to put the fiddle yard? " Don, assuming that the floatbridge is '1' on your plan and the three roads immediately below that are the...
Hi: Combining a fiddle yard with a car float would be easy building it as a multiple tracks turntable pivoting in the "water". This would also reverse...
Hi Max Relevant articles appear to be Trains Jan '89, RailModel Journal Nov'92, Mainline Modeller May '92, Model Railroader May '99, Railroad Model Craftsman...
Hi Alan My longterm pipe dream is of a mythical Island off Scotland with all trains limited to those on the island except for those coming on the ferry. The...
Hi shortliner2001 Not bad. However the train spiralling round the freight house is what really got to me. I enjoyed the film of the Oregon sawmill, reminded...
There is a prototype for almost everything!! When the Skye Railway (Inverness to, eventually, Kyle of Lochalsh) was promoted it was proposed to transport...
Dear Alan, ... To make things even more interesting, I'm experimenting with a way of pivoting the carfloat longditudionally so you have to load and unload it...
After some research, I found that a car float is just a common barge, fitted with railroad tracks. These are most often moved by tug boats. So, I called a...
Dear Dave, Small-Layout-fans, Being as I am 1 - not US or European 2 - a member of both this group, and the Rail-Marine group 2 - the builder and researcher...
Dear Dave, Apologies if I came off too hardcore or overbearing, definitely was not, nor ever will be my intention ;-) I too am constantly amazed by the breadth...
Hi John The point about which a boat rotates is known as the metacentre. The stability is thus the difference in level of the centre of gravity and the...
