I am sorry I did not reply sooner. My hard drive had a catastrophic failure and I have been without a computer until just now. I got a reply from...
Ill give him a call on Monday.
Email could have been caught in a spam filter :( Rolf is probably the nicest guys you will ever meet in the Z world, but his English is not the...
I just got off the phone with him. They are still waiting for the circuits to be made. He told me that each traffic light has 4 wires, one for...
Last I heard he was working on getting one that was programmable. I can call him today and get an update. I can also ask how many wires are coming...
I agree. And you can only hide so much with weathering. I am picking the lesser of the evils and running duplicate (and triplicate ect) numbers.
That is so true during WW2. How many folks model WW2? There are always exceptions and depending on the railroad and area and time period. IC,...
Märklin one is 132 mm, at least the part that turns.
I will be there!! Oh BTW, wheel antennae are 31 inches across ;)
We can try using this route...http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?156409-Z-Scale-CB-amp-Q-3-bay-coal-hoppers&p=968698#post968698
I want to suggest a run of not just one, but a set of 6 or 8 CB&Q coal hoppers, in chinese red, 1950-60s. Q Engines from this time period are out...
Most people dont care. I have some nice plans for some wooden cabeese for my favorite railroad. down to the nuts and bolts. As long as mine is...
Oh thanks a bunch!
You hit it right on the money. There are a few books about modeling coal trains out there. Lot of factors, region , era, railroad. Closer to the...
Old thread but, more 6 or 8 packs? CB&Q? With new numbers please!
I am really happy that MTL did make large runs in the past of hoppers. I hope they will continue. Even Märklin had packs of 5. AZL had runs of...
Some people like to run a coal hoppers from a dozen different companies together. But this was not normal. Unless it was after a merger perhaps,...
Wow this is nice!. I really want to try and make my own caboose. Im poking around the internet right now for bronze wire. I was thinking of...
You could do the B&O in Z;) There are some Britsh Z scalers in the UK. They have to make a lot of their stuff from scratch, or kitbash. There are...
Its great to see 3 bay hoppers again. It would be nice to see a whole string of them . Anyone out there want to get together, and see if we could...
