I found that it worked if you roll the wheel set into mesh with the gears rather than try to just drop (slowly) the wheel set in vertically. When...
I have 52 loco's and 960 wagons and my obsession has cost me $48,000 so far, but the enjoyment factor is priceless when i watch 60 or so wagons...
Awesome looking wagon Gerd, and really good to see someone from Australia furthering the cause of z scale. I am keen to get a number of your kits...
I just went out into my train room and tried a radical fix and it worked, i can grab one reefer and push and pull quite violently on the other 11...
I have just today ( Thursday 29th ) received 12 reefers in 3 different RR markings and they all suffer from the uncoupling effect. I had to...
As far as i am concerned they are keepers, even if they start to become a storage nightmare, i have a whole wall in my shed full of empty boxes...
WOW magnificent effort. You certainly have set a new standard for everyone to try and follow.
Still planning Goodaye Cely, i haven't made any modules for Z yet, but will shortly be working out what size suits me best...
Foam on top - excellent idea I have built 4 Z-Bend track modules and even showed them at the state (Western Australia) model railway exhibition...
New Steam 2011 looks like being an outstanding year for Z gauge steam, a Big Boy coming and now Mikado's. My Challenger needs a big brother, and...
I use white glue to glue three layers of cardboard ( all cut to different widths to build up the foundation ) to the base surface and then use the...
Pennsy baggage Goodaye Joe, i had a quick look through some of my Pennsy books and the nearest i can find is a B60b. This car...
melting moments I was talking to a fellow modeller at the annual Perth ( Australia ) model railway exhibition a year or two ago as he was running...
Kato unitrack I have over 250 pieces of Kato unitrack and dont really intend to buy any other sort of N gauge track. Until i have the time and...
PRR GP30's Thanks Ben for the photo, i have just done some looking around and found a beautiful colour pic of some brand new GP30's arriving for...
If Pennsy ran them and you build some in the Pennsy colours then i will buy some, i have all three numbers of the GP-7 and am glad someone is...
I dont have any brass loco's at all but the challenger just might be too much of a "challenge" to resist, lets hope the Aussie dollar improves...
A couple of days ago a parcel arrived with my third MTL GP-35 and a two set of the latest Full Throttle cylindrical hoppers all in PRR , plus some...
I have assembled heaps of these little blighters, somewhere around 100 Maerklin wagons converted, and the best tip i can offer for the spring...
Goodaye to all, an interesting discussion going on here, first of all to answer George, I drive real trains (up to 99...
