Stokrocki and Lane in February RMC
Congratulations to Stan Stokrocki and Bill Lane who teamed up to provide the wonderful photo of a pair of Conrail diesels for the NASG ad in the February RMC.? Stan did the modeling and Bill took the
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Brooks Stover
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Re: Amity Star Southern Railway "Big John" 100 ton Covered Hopper
Someone, aka one of my esteemed customers, bought one from me (Jamie?/ Bob?).? Billy Click owned one or more of "everything" that I've sold.? I do remember the Amity Star kit being announced a long
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Bob Werre
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Re: Amity Star Southern Railway "Big John" 100 ton Covered Hopper
Bob, I have one in a partially completed state. Too modern for me too. That's probably why it is languishing. Jamie Bothwell Bethlehem, PA [email protected]> wrote:
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Jamie Bothwell
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Re: It's Official: No More Flyer
Not everything Lionel/Flyer made was toylike.? Pacific's, Mikado's, Challengers, Y3's, U33/36C's, SD70's and ES44's come to mind.? While some aren't easily converted to scale wheels, they are far
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Rich Gajnak
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Unique Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward 4-8-8-2 for sale
Due to my downsized layout I'm considering selling one of my prized locomotives.? This is a Jesse Bennett built brass Southern Pacific AC-5 Cab Forward. It is one of only two in S scale.? Jesse
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adguytrains
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Amity Star Southern Railway "Big John" 100 ton Covered Hopper
I acquired this interesting Amity Star kit some time ago.? While the car is too modern for my layout, it provided an interesting kit to build.? I upgraded it using milled "T" stock and styrene brake
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adguytrains
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Brook' latest RMC article
Brooks... Another terrific job with the BC&G operating article in the latest RMC.? Also, some pretty terrific photography! Bob Hogan
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adguytrains
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Re: It's Official: No More Flyer
Apparently very few here(or enough of anyone else) bought Lionel AF.? Mostly I have seen complaints in this group that it is toylike, flanges too big, etc., and now it is gone.? So we hope that
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John Hutnick
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Re: Scale Trains has reefers on preorder
Other decals for the wood reefer in the post steam era
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Ted Larson
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Re: Scale Trains has reefers on preorder
https://morningsunbooks.com/products/refrigerator-car-color-guide-digital-reprint 1955 photo of WRX 9091 is shown with paint scheme matching that for sale. There is also a 1963 photo of 9032 in a
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Ted Larson
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Re: S scale switching layout plan
Some topics that I think make a huge difference in what you do are: - Big city vs small town, - What part of the country : - What types of industries you like for example: Switching at a small town in
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Ted Larson
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Re: weigh this!
I will elaborate my reasoning a bit --"ability" also includes those gentle curves/low grades if one puts that over other requirements-- in my case, however the vast majority of my curves are in the
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Bob Werre
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Re: Converting an AF Royal Blue to scale
Let me look tomorrow, but I think the Museum has a partially converted Pacific that's available. IIRC, it has scale disc drivers, a can motor conversion, and a few other bits. I'll post something
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Tom Lennon
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Re: S Scale switching layout plan
I checked with Peter of the NASG. There are pictures of the NASG switching layout at https://www.nasg.org/About/SwitchingLayout.php There are no dimensions so it may be a bit wide. Ken G.
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ken garber
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Re: It's Official: No More Flyer
Soo sad.? ?Sorry Ed,? as much as I love all the stuff I have bought from you I'm now switching to Z guage. Andrew Parker
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Andrew Parker
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Re: S Scale switching layout plan
Michael Eldridge has built an upsized "timesaver"-style layout, "Bass Creek Junction", to accomodate the S-scale rolling stock and a small Diesel locomotive.? It is on the Bay Area S Scalers website,
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David McBrayer
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Re: S Scale switching layout plan
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned John Allen's Time Saver puzzle. -- Mike Swederska Meramec Valley Lines Modeling Mopac equipment in 3/16 https://www.youtube.com/@mikesscale3149 Don't let
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Mike Swederska
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Re: Scale Trains has reefers on preorder
David, My advice is to have plenty of light, clean air and magnification to see how the paint is going on. Practice, practice, practice before painting your model. There is plenty of painting videos
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Mike Swederska
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Re: It's Official: No More Flyer
I think it highly unlikely that Lionel would sell off the Flyer tooling. Rich G(ajnak)
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Rich Gajnak
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Converting an AF Royal Blue to scale
Yeah, I'm acting like a true heretic. But I'd like to convert the AF Royal Blue I bought for second to none a few years ago into a smooth running scale loco. And I remember that there were some
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Hans von Draminski
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