Special LGB Notes I know I keep bringing up the LGB subject. I just wanted to mention some notes. I remember when I first saw LGB porducts back in 1988, I was impressed by the sze of them, but I also noticed the biggest majority of them were European style trains. I remember when LGB came out with the American style Box cars with plastic wheels, I bought one after getting into G scale. Then they came out with the Queen Anne series I believe. I remember the 12 wheel Rio Grande locomotive and Caboose in this series, the locomotive was way too short to be a modern 12 wheel American locomotive and the caboose was almost as big as the locomotive, plus in the Rio Grande name is was all the wrong color scheme. Finally LGB America came along and some real nice, more realistic rolling stock started coming out and with metal wheels. First a more modern and detailed American box car, then a nice modern Tank car and finally a modern center flow hopper car. It's a shame that LGB America finally gets on the right track producing such nice, more realistic American type rolling stock only to fall into turmoil as a company. I hope they get things straightened out because I think LGB America was on a roll to be a very agressive competitor to Aristocraft and USA Trains in the Amercian market. I also believe the had more potential to possibly produce and make better and more realistic type American locomotives. Lets hope the best for LGB America. Picture #1 is what I think was called the LGB Queen Anne series Picture #2 Is another attempt of LGB trying to get into the American market, this came standard with metal wheels Picture #3 Is the LGB of America box car and what a beauty it is, very finely detailed and very nice.
List of USA woodside reefers still available Hi, here is a list of USA woodside reefer cars still available from USA trains R16310Decker Ref. Line - Yellow/Box Car Red $92.95R16311Empire Builder Apples - Light Blue 92.95R16312Harding Cheese - Yellow/Silver92.95R16313Wisconsin Cheese - Yellow/Silver92.95R16314URT/Soo Line - Orange/Silver92.95R16315Lakeshire Cheese - Yellow/Silver92.95R16316URT/Minneapolis St. Louis RR - Orange/Silver92.95R16317N. Dorman & Co. Cheese 92.95R16318Clipper Ship Apples - Red/Blue92.95R16319Crest Washington Pears - Blue92.95R16320Blue Bird Pears - Blue92.95R16321Royal Crest Apples - Red/Silver92.95R16322USA Trains "Add A Little Magic" - Blue 92.95R16323Express Salmon - Red/Silver92.95R16324NW Reefer Line/Twin Brand Fruit Co. - Yellow/Silver92.95R16325Goehring Grapes - Cream/Blue92.95R16326Santa Maria Vegetables - Two-Tone Orange/Silver92.95R16327Hanover Cranberries - Tan/Silver92.95R16328Jipco Pumpkins - Cream/Blue92.95R16329Alaska Brewing Bitter Ale - Green/Silver92.95R16330Geary's Ale - Black/Red92.95R16331Limoneira Lemons - Red/Blue92.95R16332Tiger Head Ale - Green/Silver92.95R16333BN/Red Rose Tomatoes - White/Blue99.95R16334Wagner's Peas - White/Green99.95R16335Templar Peas - White/Blue99.95R16336Delta Corn - White/Blue99.95R16337Primrose Sugar Corn - Light Blue/Dark Blue99.95R16338Skookum Apples - Green/Silver99.95R16339Nob Hill Fruit - White/Blue 99.95R16340Samuel Adams - White/Brown 99.95R16341Samuel Adams October Fest - Blue/Orange 99.95R16342Moosehead - White/Red 99.95R16343GN/Seacoast - Cream/Blue 99.95R16344Cotton Belt - Yelloow/Brown 99.95R16345Union Ice Service - White/Silver99.95R16346Howel's Root Beer - Yellow/Green99.95R16347LaFrance Firetruck - White/Red99.95R16348Popeye Root Beer - Yellow/Red99.95R16349Uncle Sam Coffee - White/Blue99.95R16350Swift's Borax Soap - Red99.95R16351Vermont Boiled Cider - Green/Silver99.95R16352Oyster Crackers - Light Blue/Silver 99.95R16353New Haven Dairy - Green99.95R16354Pine Mountain - Light Green/Dark Green99.95R16355Golden Velvet Beer - Cream/Brown99.95 You can click on the blue to see pictures Visit here > www.usatrains.com
EMD trainmans MOW collection now complete Hi, I finally found the last piece to add to my collection of Rio Ggrande road name MOW equipment. I finally found the rail and tie car brand new after some prying around at Charles RO train shop. I posted some picturs for all to see. My next & last item on my mosted wanted list is the Aristocraft Rio Grande cookie box car in white. You see, I got so mad at Aristocraft for not helping me and treating me like I'm a idiot on propblems with their locomotives that I sold every last arsitocraft train I owned on Ebay around 2004 I believe. Now I sold everything in a haste and in a mad state swearing never to go back again. After my temper lowered about a year later I started to buy Aristocraft trains back again, replacing the ones I sold, liked and USA trains didn't make. I bought the old version of the Rio grande 2 bay covered hopper in orange, Railbox 53ft Evans car, Rio Grande gondolla and even buying a newer version of the Rio Grande 2 bay covered hopper in which is gray now. Although I had alot more Aristocraft rolling stock than what I have bought back, the only other car I would like to get back is the Aristocraft Rio Grande Cookie Box car in white. If any of you know where I could get one in near mint condition with the box or if you have an extra you are just keeping on a shelf, I would like to know because I did like this box car also. Thanx Picture #1 is my now completed USA Rio Grande work train, please note there is a bunk car, a engineering car, a kitchen car and a rotary snow plow that goes with this set, but I really don't want those items. Picture #2 my USA Rio Grande truck car Picture #3 my USA Rio Grande wheel car Picture #4 my USA Rio Grande work flat car Picture #5 my USA Rio Grande rail and tie car
FOUND! Old ad for USA Trains woodside reefers Hi, I found an old ad for USA Trains woodside reefers and is marked ad #99-11. I have scaned it in and will share picture on line, not sure what year this is from but maybe the hint is in the ad number, so I'm guessing 1999. Picture #1 USA ad for woodside reefer cars from Garden Railways magazine I have saved back from the day and forgot about it til now. Picture #2 is the same ad, just with a better scanner, never buy a Dell printer, they are junk as you will see a quality difference
Bunch of you tube idoor G scale videos found I found a bunch of YOU TUBE G scale indoor train videos like the ones I've been making. I will post the link in orange that will take you there, just click on it. www.youtube.com/results?search_query=indoor+G+scale&search_type=&aq=f I think it's neat to find others modeling G scale indoors
Pictures of USA Trains R1600 reefers Part 1 Here is a few pictures from my 1998 USA Trains catalog of the R16000 series woodside reefer cars. For those who aren't familiar with USA trains, these are now called the American Series and are 1/24 scale ratio.
Pictures of USA R1600 Reefers part 2 Here is yet another set of pictures as the series grew from a catalog not dated
Pictures of USA R1600 Reefers part 3 Here is some more pictures as the series grows higher in numbers
USA Trains Piggyback pictures I ran into some USA trains American series piggyback pictures from my past catalogs I had stored. Below are scanned pictures from those catalogs. They range from 1998 to 2006.
Have a Merry USA X-mas Hi, USA trains has a nice variety of G scale related Christmas themed trains. I attached a photo s you can see just a few from a USA Trains ad.
EMD trainman becomes board member I was offered the chance to become a board member of train board and i happily took it. I thank those involved in offering this to me and look foward to serving those who enjoy model trains and real trains in general as well as the G scale people. I would also like to thank those for taking the time out to read my threads and posts in which I will still keep updated as much as possible. I have started a photo album on my G scale layout in which loads up slowly due to my slow connection, plus I used high quality digital photos. To those interested I have a ton of Rio Grande photos that I could also put in a seperate photo album, please let me know if there may be interest in that. These are a photo collection I have gotten from other places and sites, these are not my own railfan photos. I wil not post any copyrighted photos.
You may have noticed I moved my videos to another section called EMD G scale vidoeos, hopefully if the board approves, I will open 2 new threads, 1 called EMD trainmans news and reviews and the 2nd called EMD trainmans G scale resource thread.
You will notice that I deleted some sections, don't worry, they were just moved to another one of my sections, thank you for understanding, EMD trainman
Thank you all for your continued support. My new threads EMD trainmans News & reviews is now open along with my EMD Trainmans resource thread. I will continue to post pictures and thread about my indoor G scale layout here. Other other posts will go in one or the other appropiate new postings
EMD Trainmans photo album Hi everyone, I'm outting together a photo album right here on trainboard of my indoor G scale train set. I will be posting different pictures of my locomotives, rolling stock and different operations. The project will be on going and probably never fininshed, so keep checking back at my photo album here >>> www.trainboard.com/grapevine/album.php?albumid=232
Seasonal Changes on EMD trainmans layout Hi everyone, although I run indoors, I make seasonal scheduled train runs now that I have 6 complete sets of G scale trains. It is now getting close in time to change the trains around which is alot of work, but worth it. After Thanksgiving or some of us call "black friday" people go shopping, well I stay home that day to change the trains around. You will see new pictures of my F3 ABBA set in action pulling a long string of 40ft box cars and 40ft tank cars, then there is my GP-9 double header rumbling around with a very heavy load of coal cars, then last but not least you will see my Flat service train inaction being pulled by GP-30 double header locomotives. Stay tuned as my Rio Grande action is about to change. Not to mention I will make new videos of these trains in action on my layout.
Rookie I am just starting into g scale, I have a 1/32 slot car track 18 ft x 4 ft. I would like to enhance it with the g 1/29 to 1/32 scale. I am open to any suggestions. I am also lacking knowledge of the turn radius of the gp38 aristo and usa locos
Geoffb, you have come to the right place. You can view my G scale thread called EMD trainmans resource thread where there is all kinds of info like this that you are looking for. Just simply scroll down at the bottom of the screen and open the threads tab up to show 1 months worth of postings in the G scale main section. You can run a G scale train actually on a 4 x 4 piece of plywood believe it or not with 4ft diamter track, but are very limited to what kind of trains you want to run. The USA GP-38 requires 5ft minimun diameter track as do most Aristocraft and USA locomotioves. Aristocraft sells a locomotive called a center cab diesel which I think is real nice and very reliable which will run on 4ft radius track. The USA NW-2 will also run on the 4ft diameter track and is very reliable. Aristocraft also has 20ft 2 axle freight cars which are reall good for tight spaces and run perfect on 4ft radius track. USA and Aristocraft both make 1:24 and 1:29 scale ratios. I not sure if there is anything in 1:32 scale that will run on 4 ft diameter. You have to make a decison on what you want, but a big EMD GP diesel engine whether it's USA trains or Aristocraft is out of the question for 4ft diamter curves.Hartland which is 1:24 scale ratio actually makes trains specific for running on tight 4ft diameter curves, but again, you are stuck with a diesel switcher. Check out my EMD trainmans resource thread before making any harsh decisions, there are links to click on that will take you to places to view such products and charts of what manufacturer can run on what diameter curve track and what scale ratios each manufacturer makes. By the way, welcome aboard, glad to have another G scale person aboard, this is the best place to learn a new hobby.
I like to take the time out to thank everyone for reading my posts and threads. The EMD Trainmans G scale section is now at 5,000 views and I appreciate the time everyone spends here, I promise more to come soon.
EMD Trainmans G scale on tour part1 Hi, we are going to take a small tour on my lay out. I run 6 different trains and have 3 seperate tracks in G scale that I run indoors. Photo #1 Is my work shop area, the trains enter the work shop area thru tunnels from the yard room which was my computer room, but now moved that up stairs and made a yard room for the trains. Photo #2 The trains enter the shop area and then goes into the laundry room part of the basement Photo #3 The train will run thru the laudry room and go into the main basement area Photo #4 getting ready to enter the main basement area. this is where the 6 person wet bar use to be complete with mug racks, bottle racks, 2 illuminated beer signs, storage are underneath for shot glasses only to be ripped out for trains. Someone was very happy to take this off my hands, I can't understand why (sarcasm) Photo #5 The train then exists the laundry room and runs down along side the main basement wall where little finishing needs to be done. future plans include green indoor outdoor carpet, 2ft high floating back drops and of course structures. Stay tuned for part2 of EMD trainmans tour
