For Sale - Tomalco Flex Track 70 & 83 - Homasote Roadbed *Local Pick up Only*
Group, For local pick up only:? Tomalco S scale flex track, code 70 (5) & 83 (10), homasote roadbed and switch pads in S & HO scale. Photos below. Send private reply. Thank you, Matt Hogan Ephrata, PA   
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I have an S Helper Service New York Central SW-9 for sale.
I purchased this engine a few years ago and it is supposed to have DCC with sound.
I paid a premium for this loco and turns out this engine has some issues.
I did hear the engine produce sound once, but the sound is not currently working.
Engine runs on DCC and has constant directional lighting.
The bell is missing/broken off.
There is some type of issue with the interchangeable front end which makes it hard to change it from the MU version.
I have attached pictures of both sides of the engine and I have a picture of the parts included in the box.
I am asking $150.00 plus $15.00 shipping to the lower 48.
If interested, contact me off group at wkschlinger@...
If accept PayPal friends and family and personal check for payment.
If you pay by check, I will ship the model once the check clears.
Wade Schlinger
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Does anyone know who made these marker lights? 1 just went missing. Do you have any that I could buy? ? Thank You,
Bill Lane
Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987
See my finished models at:
Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! ? See my layout progress at:
Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society
It's FREE to join!??
Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
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Re: Locomotive Workshop Boxcar Restoration
One (of 2) waiting in the wings, withe resin ends and PRS roof. Just mocked up but in the queue. Another in the background. 
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Re: Locomotive Workshop Boxcar Restoration
Yea Brooks, there are several in my basement. I use the sides for differing projects. I did build one and decorate it THB. It was sold off a few years ago. It was a tough build. A few I have will get "upgraded" with resin ends and PRS parts. Besides PRS, it is the only way I know to get 10'6" 40' boxcars. The do take a considerable amount of prep before construction can begin!
Bruce Bogart
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The Frank Titman tribute at the NASG convention is underway. Hugh Sinn is wrangling that. He came over today and made a haul of my stuff. Contact Hugh if you have something you want to display. Contact me if you have something for SALE!!! J ? Thank You,
Bill Lane
Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987
See my finished models at:
Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! ? See my layout progress at:
Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society
It's FREE to join!??
Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
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NWSL J&L Tank, Yet Another Question
I do have another question for those who own one or more of these cars: I found one small brass part loose in the box (on the workbench beneath the car); I suspect it is supposed to represent a valve on the underframe center sill but cannot be certain.
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Most model J&L tank cars are painted wrong based on a builder¡¯s photo since that are almost no known photos of it running in the wild. My car is painted wring ¨C oh well.. I am not changing
it.
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Thank You,
Bill Lane
Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987
See my finished models at:
Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale!
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See my layout progress at:
Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society
It's FREE to join!??
Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
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Re: Locomotive Workshop Boxcar Restoration
One nit: I suspect the tack boards on the door should be swapped.
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I recently acquired a boxcar built from a Locomotive Workshop kit from Ed Loizeaux.? Ed isn't sure who originally assembled the car.? I upgraded it with parts from PRS,? added some detail, repainted it, lettered it with Tichy decals and weathered it with
pastels and acrylic 'rust'.? The third photo shows the car between an SHS boxcar (with Creco doors) and an AM boxcar (with a little added detail).? ?
I see on the NASG website there is a photo of an unassembled kit in the PRODUCT GALLERY which helps put in perspective how difficult these might have been to assemble, especially if there was any warpage in the 'flat' parts.? Ed suggested they were so hard
to assemble that no one ever built two!? Anyway, I'm happy to have a piece of S history refurbished and in operation on the BC&G.?
Can anyone shed any light on exactly what years these Locomotive Workshop kits were in production?? Are any unassembled kits known to exist?
Brooks Stover
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Re: Locomotive Workshop Boxcar Restoration
I bought a couple from Bob Werre within the past year.
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I recently acquired a boxcar built from a Locomotive Workshop kit from Ed Loizeaux.? Ed isn't sure who originally assembled the car.? I upgraded it with parts from PRS,? added some detail, repainted it, lettered it with Tichy decals and weathered it with
pastels and acrylic 'rust'.? The third photo shows the car between an SHS boxcar (with Creco doors) and an AM boxcar (with a little added detail).? ?
I see on the NASG website there is a photo of an unassembled kit in the PRODUCT GALLERY which helps put in perspective how difficult these might have been to assemble, especially if there was any warpage in the 'flat' parts.? Ed suggested they were so hard
to assemble that no one ever built two!? Anyway, I'm happy to have a piece of S history refurbished and in operation on the BC&G.?
Can anyone shed any light on exactly what years these Locomotive Workshop kits were in production?? Are any unassembled kits known to exist?
Brooks Stover
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Re: Western Pacific F Unit Gathering on the Sierra Northern
Kind of outside the scope?
If you have a model railroad you also may be on the ownership/management side?????? ? Stan
Bob is right. And sometimes a strike is the only instrument some employers will understand. Being a labour union's member by myself I've learned some things the hard way...
Heartful greetings from Middle Franconia, Hans
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Locomotive Workshop Boxcar Restoration
I recently acquired a boxcar built from a Locomotive Workshop kit from Ed Loizeaux.? Ed isn't sure who originally assembled the car.? I upgraded it with parts from PRS,? added some detail, repainted it, lettered it with Tichy decals and weathered it with pastels and acrylic 'rust'.? The third photo shows the car between an SHS boxcar (with Creco doors) and an AM boxcar (with a little added detail).? ?
I see on the NASG website there is a photo of an unassembled kit in the PRODUCT GALLERY which helps put in perspective how difficult these might have been to assemble, especially if there was any warpage in the 'flat' parts.? Ed suggested they were so hard to assemble that no one ever built two!? Anyway, I'm happy to have a piece of S history refurbished and in operation on the BC&G.?
Can anyone shed any light on exactly what years these Locomotive Workshop kits were in production?? Are any unassembled kits known to exist?
Brooks Stover
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Re: Western Pacific F Unit Gathering on the Sierra Northern
If you have a model railroad you also may be on the ownership/management side?????? ? Stan
Bob is right. And sometimes a strike is the only instrument some employers will understand. Being a labour union's member by myself I've learned some things the hard way...
Heartful greetings from Middle Franconia, Hans
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The recent thread on "JTT Corn" said they have "O" and "HO" and the "HO" is perhaps oversized.
I could find three MR articles about cornfields.? The astro turf and brass mentioned, and a plastic molded one.
Here they are with a photo from each article.
April 1993, pp 120-121 "An 'amaizing' way to model cornfields" (Uses artificial-turf doormat)
June 2002, pp 62-63 "Make your own brass cornfield" (Uses Alkem Scale Models HO-CR HO scale corn rows)
September 2006, pp 40-42 "Add a cornfield to your layout" (Uses Busch's plastic cornfield kit no. 1202)
Charles E. "Chuck" Kinzer
On Friday, June 28, 2024 at 04:33:56 AM PDT, Jim & Cheryl Martin <themartins@...> wrote:
Hi Bob. MR had an article many years ago on using the photo etched corn. Because you only get a few square inches of the brass stalks, the author painted a suggestion of corn on the backdrop and then planted two rows of the 3D corn in front. By using the corn in a long row instead of a small patch, the overall effect was very realistic.
Jim Martin
Several days ago we were shown a photo of a corn
field track-side.? I also had thoughts of something similar so I
bought some etched brass versions in HO.? I put them aside as I
put some thought into the scene--I guess it's been a dozen years
but the corn still hasn't been planted!?
So a few days ago I unearthed the two etched
sheets.? The supplier,? Alkem talks about 'planting' the stalks
by rows,? It seems they are HO and perhaps a bit short for even
that scale.? It does take some addition
work to refine things to make them acceptable.? The retail was
$13 for two sheets so my patch would also be small--maybe just
enough for small batch of Moon Shine!? I
remember some discussions regarding the seed suppliers
indicating smaller stalks translating into larger ears.? I
haven't picked any corn in many years so if you have some
acreage devoted to corn--help me/us!? Scan is attached.
Bob Werre
PS? The primary freight on Len Giovannoli"s
Kentucky layout was named "The Revenuer"? as he had come from
sour mash country!
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Yes Jim, that seems like the way to
go.? Unless one could copy the brass versions, make several copies
a bit taller from thin plastic using punch type affair!? Just
thinking out loud!
A 'past-on' local HO modeler, Mike
Spoor once used some Astro-turf for his corn field that at the
time looked reasonable to me.? (Mike edited and published several
books on the CB&Q)? However I haven't seen the layout in
several years, if it still survives!? , With that being said
there's probably some other row crop that might be better using
that same material? The Astro-turf, used to be sold at typical
builder's mart in 12' wide rolls? as indoor/outdoor carpet--other
versions use a much larger turf as smaller doormats.?
Bob Werre
Phototraxx
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Hi Bob. MR
had an article many years ago on using the photo etched corn.
Because you only get a few square inches of the brass stalks,
the author painted a suggestion of corn on the backdrop and
then planted two rows of the 3D corn in front. By using the
corn in a long row instead of a small patch, the overall
effect was very realistic.
Jim Martin
Several days ago we were shown a photo of
a corn field track-side.? I also had thoughts of
something similar so I bought some etched brass versions
in HO.? I put them aside as I put some thought into the
scene--I guess it's been a dozen years but the corn
still hasn't been planted!?
So a few days ago I unearthed the two
etched sheets.? The supplier,? Alkem talks about
'planting' the stalks by rows,? It seems they are HO and
perhaps a bit short for even that scale.? It does take some addition work to refine
things to make them acceptable.? The retail was $13 for
two sheets so my patch would also be small--maybe just
enough for small batch of Moon Shine!? I remember some discussions regarding the seed
suppliers indicating smaller stalks translating into
larger ears.? I haven't picked any corn in many years so
if you have some acreage devoted to corn--help me/us!?
Scan is attached.
Bob Werre
PS? The primary freight on Len
Giovannoli"s Kentucky layout was named "The Revenuer"?
as he had come from sour mash country!
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Re: Western Pacific F Unit Gathering on the Sierra Northern
Bob is right. And sometimes a strike is the only instrument some employers will understand. Being a labour union's member by myself I've learned some things the hard way...
Heartful greetings from Middle Franconia, Hans
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Re: seeking advice from mechanical/engineering types!
? ? ? I'd build the door using aluminum angle and strips and TIG weld it together to make a multi cell, each cell being about ?9" squares. The top would be a 1/8" thick ?piece of Polycarbonate. Here locally we have a Junior college that has day and evening welding classes for welders to get certified. I've taken projects to the instructor and students have gladly took on the projects.?My cost for various projects was the metals and some Pizzas.
? ? ?For building many of my display cases my local plastic supplier has cut the polycarbonate to size for me to use as the display case windows. Polycarbonate does come in various colors and is extremely strong, not like the cheap acrylic plastic sheet.
Rusty
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Hi Bob. MR had an article many years ago on using the photo etched corn. Because you only get a few square inches of the brass stalks, the author painted a suggestion of corn on the backdrop and then planted two rows of the 3D corn in front. By using the corn in a long row instead of a small patch, the overall effect was very realistic.
Jim Martin
Several days ago we were shown a photo of a corn
field track-side.? I also had thoughts of something similar so I
bought some etched brass versions in HO.? I put them aside as I
put some thought into the scene--I guess it's been a dozen years
but the corn still hasn't been planted!?
So a few days ago I unearthed the two etched
sheets.? The supplier,? Alkem talks about 'planting' the stalks
by rows,? It seems they are HO and perhaps a bit short for even
that scale.? It does take some addition
work to refine things to make them acceptable.? The retail was
$13 for two sheets so my patch would also be small--maybe just
enough for small batch of Moon Shine!? I
remember some discussions regarding the seed suppliers
indicating smaller stalks translating into larger ears.? I
haven't picked any corn in many years so if you have some
acreage devoted to corn--help me/us!? Scan is attached.
Bob Werre
PS? The primary freight on Len Giovannoli"s
Kentucky layout was named "The Revenuer"? as he had come from
sour mash country!
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Shortstalks in small area sounds like sweet corn patch. ?
Short stalks can also be mid summer before corn reaches full height? Sent from my Tardis -- Ted Larson trainweb.org/mhrr/??????? --------??????? NASG.org??????? --------??????? GN in 1965
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Western Pacific F Unit Gathering on the Sierra Northern
Hi Bob --
You are having way too much fun!? ?Neat!
Bill Winans
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If it's only knee high, the farmer's in trouble. Sweet corn is shorter than feed corn. Also has light green tassels rather than reddish. Each stalk has one ear generally.
Former employee of DeKalb Ag.
I don¡¯t see any ears on those stalks, so short might be fine. ?¡°Knee high by the Fourth of July¡± used to be the refrain.
Several days ago we were shown a photo of a corn
field track-side.? I also had thoughts of something similar so I
bought some etched brass versions in HO.? I put them aside as I
put some thought into the scene--I guess it's been a dozen years
but the corn still hasn't been planted!?
So a few days ago I unearthed the two etched
sheets.? The supplier,? Alkem talks about 'planting' the stalks
by rows,? It seems they are HO and perhaps a bit short for even
that scale.? It does take some addition
work to refine things to make them acceptable.? The retail was
$13 for two sheets so my patch would also be small--maybe just
enough for small batch of Moon Shine!? I
remember some discussions regarding the seed suppliers
indicating smaller stalks translating into larger ears.? I
haven't picked any corn in many years so if you have some
acreage devoted to corn--help me/us!? Scan is attached.
Bob Werre
PS? The primary freight on Len Giovannoli"s
Kentucky layout was named "The Revenuer"? as he had come from
sour mash country!
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Bill Lane
Bob Werre
Ted Larson