RE: berlyn k36 v accucraft k36 Dave   you might try a call to Jon Bliese one of our forum sponsors.  Jon is the man behind Electric Steam Model Works http://www.rctrains.com/ and is knowledgeable of all things Accucraft and Berlyn.   Regards ... Doug... 10 Nov 2009 04:35 PM Beginner's Forum (0)

RE: Software? As is often the case, a question is asked without the person posing the question explaining his goal.  The initial question about what is the best software to program and run trains was very unclear.   most of us modellers actually see the engineer's job as the one we like to mimic when ...... 09 Nov 2009 10:23 AM DCC in Large Scale (0)

RE: How to lay down track...float or anchor? I'll cast a vote for securing track but I will place some caveats.   If you will go with track power then electrical continuity is paramount.  Railclamps are a good answer (along with soldering/brazing extra jumpers).  But once clamps are attached there is a need to allow for expans...... 08 Nov 2009 08:58 AM Beginner's Forum (0)

RE: Running USA and Aristo Passenger Cars Reefers were often run in passenger trains BUT they were not everyday freight reefers.  Reefers assigned to express service needed special high speed trucks, passenger brakes and lines for carrying the train signal and steam to a following train.  Most often a railroad had a few of its own...... 06 Nov 2009 05:47 AM Rolling Stock (0)

RE: geared locos Todd   All the B'mann Class B shays are essentially the same.  However the 10,000 shays imported about 10 years ago had plastic trucks while the new bunch (about 5000) imported in the last 5 years have metal trucks and are much less prone to failure.  The earlier ones were referred ...... 05 Nov 2009 11:27 AM Beginner's Forum (0)

RE: Aristocraft F3 A B A ? The original Phoene Snow, a Lackawanna creation on the late 40s, was originally pulled by an F3 A-B-A set regeared for passenger service and with steam gennies and passenger lines installed.  By the mid 50s these early F3s had been replaced by a pair of E8As.  They remained the normal powe...... 05 Nov 2009 05:29 AM Beginner's Forum (0)

RE: A modern RDC. Nice pic!   RDCs continue in daily use on the Via Rail run from Sudbury to White River Ontario.  The route passes through territory totally uninhabited and inaccessible by road - the train will stop wherever it is flagged.   RDCs are still in non revenue use as well witness t...... 04 Nov 2009 01:32 PM Railroad Operations (0)

RE: Aristocraft F3 A B A ? the Phoebe Snow, as Lackawanna's flagship, was a beautiful streamlined train in the late 40s and 50s but it did fall on darker days after the merger of the Erie and the Lackawanna.  Its route was changed to no longer terminate in Buffalo but instead run all the way to Chicago on the Erie's...... 04 Nov 2009 10:44 AM Beginner's Forum (0)

RE: Hand laid narrow gauge track. I only handlay switches and the odd piece such as a bridge so am not in the same league as you guys that handlay it all.  I took a piece of Llagas Creek track and measured the tie size ... then cut mine from cedar om the table saw.  I lay them by eye but I do like to set my metre length me...... 01 Nov 2009 05:40 AM Track, Trestles, Bridges and Roadbed (0)

RE: Running USA and Aristo Passenger Cars Some of the Aristo cars are models of the CNJ Blue Comet trainset.  These were one off 72 foot cars and very short protoitypes for the late heavyweight era which generally featured 80 footers.  The sleeper is pure fantasy as no standard gauge 10-1's were ever built ... the usual ...... 31 Oct 2009 02:32 PM Rolling Stock (0)