Interesting thread, I know I am a bit late but missed it until now. Thanks for the insight provided here. I have the same problem with my 10 or...
I preordered a set without sound and was worrying what I would get now. Today I received my set and must say it looks better than expected. At...
There is a German company that might help you: http://www.n-schmalspur.de/
Thank you for the information, Craig. The hopper car genealogy is very helpful. The USRA cars seem to be a must for most modellers. Concering...
These cars look good, and I think I will get some of them. My problem is that I am gradully loosing the overview of the different hopper types,...
After a long search I found my former Railimages Albums under "User Albums". All pictures were still there. I immediately added a bookmark so...
I see these loads as raw material for my own modeling, i.e. further improvement and at least painting. So far I bought most of them when they...
After some self-finding exercise I found at least parts of myself :rolleyes: The Railimage pictures now moved to "member's albums".
I just received a mail from my local (i.e. German) dealer about some new cars announced by BLI in N scale. They announce the NYC box car and the...
I use an old Life-Like F7 for it. My cleaning train consists of a short car with a strong magnet underneath to pick up lost coupler pins, a Tomix...
I have replaced most of my Atlas plastic wheels by FVM wheel sets. In some cases it helped to use a wheel set with the next longer axle size...
I have bought several Bachmann diesels with DCC, never had the chance to test any before because they were all bought by mail order (from...
I checked the Fleischmann website and found a link to order replacement parts: http://www.fleischmann.de/en/service/spareparts/index.html Maybe...
That is the next model. Here a link to my "local" dealer's page:...
I understand that MRR has a new N scale project layout in the making, which will be CB&Q. So this might trigger the sales for CB&Q models.
I had a package that was mixed with two axle lengths. Sent a mail to Matt and received a free replacement bag, to Germany. So don't be too...
I put a 1016 on the front of the A-Unit. I forgot the details and don't have pictures, but I vaguely remember that I drilled and tapped a hole in...
I think svmckee described the same problem I had with the plastic wheelsets, they were running not smoothly but rumbling, like they had flat...
I remember that I had similar problems some years ago with some tank cars. These were the new Atlas 100-ton trucks which use new 36" wheelsets...
I used MTL #1016 (with the longer shank) on my Model Power 2-8-2 and 4-6-2. I think that these were recommended for smaller radii but could not...