Model Train Journal

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Peter

Seems a lot of you have sharper eyes than me, though. I only post these to be humorous, E7. As to the Beaver Creek cars, they are beautifully made, full interiors, great trucks. I sold a three car unpainted set for a grand, if I remember right. 2400 for 8 cars is on the high end but not ridiculous! ...

This is a bit presumptuous I believe!

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Peter

@BobTurner,

I agree 100%. One of the reasons I don’t post much anymore. Time spent reading and posting to forums is time away from actual building and modeling.

"Leave me alone, I got a Railroad to build"!!

Peter

Being "too hard" is what appeals to me! To get the locomotives I wanted I had to learn how to deal with 2nd hand brass. This included getting them running well, often changing motors and drive lines. Painting and lettering them (many re-strips and re-paints) Installing decoders and LED lig...

………(designed) model is for sale on the "BAY"!! I’ve said before I’m not that familiar with the early O scale stuff, but this ad caught my BS meter! https://www.ebay.com/itm/CENTRAL-LOCOMOTIVE-WORKS-H-10-1941-very-rare-2-rail-designed-by-bill-lenoir-/124945946877?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_t...

Just goes to show you how little I know about older O scale locomotives.. Who knew……….

Peter

…….price seems a "tad" high unless it’s some fancy butt collectors item.

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Peter

Indeed sad news. I will miss “Rogruth”. While he was a 3 rail modeler he appreciated all facets of O scale and always had a kind word to say to everyone. I thought of him as the “wise old man of reason and knowledge” of our forum. My condolences to the family.

Peter

Actually I just re-read UP148’s post and he used one and commented on its “finickyness”. Sorry UP I missed that.

Peter

Hey Rich, Kadee had one but folks I’ve talked to said the time you saved using it you lost in tinkering around with the adjustments for the ohmph of the drive. Too much and you squashed the rail into the tie and too little the spikes were loose. Getting it “just right” required constant adjustment. ...

In my second "post" I detailed how I used 3/32 thick balsa glued to the underside of the PCB ties which in turn were glued to the road bed. I then glued a wood tie to the roadbed equidistant from the PCB ties. These are the only ties I spike. There is about 1 3/4 of an inch between this sp...

UP 148, I hear you about life issues interfering with our modeling and hope it’s not too serious and soon behind you. It seems at this age it’s always something. My latest “life issue” was very minor but damned painful infection under my right thumbnail and rendered me one handed-really hard to work...

Kinda, Bob. Someone once suggested that my sorta "how to" posts would be better suited to a blog than a post. I agree with that but don’t really want to start and maintain a blog so I'd rather post them, but based on the lack of any positive or negative feedback I’ve decided to just "...

I have been reading these last bunch of posts and agree with some of what’s been said but not all. I actually think all the RR forums have degraded to include a large bitch favor! I used to spend hours writing posts that were kinda tutorial in nature. I wanted to share my thoughts and techniques wit...