best ever product

StickyMonk Apr 8, 2000

  1. StickyMonk

    StickyMonk TrainBoard Member

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    whats do you think the best ever product produced in HO is? dont have to be just locos

    i think the best one is proto 2000 locos, its hard to narrow it down to just one of them as they are all good.

    so lets have yours as well..

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  2. Chessie_SD50_8563

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    Anything painted in chessie that I can afford
    (preferably athearn)

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  3. Dale

    Dale TrainBoard Member

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    Thats an easy one. Hands down #1 is DCC.#2 is forums like this one!
     
  4. ChrisDante

    ChrisDante TrainBoard Member

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    Favorite things.
    Not in any special order
    1. Flywheel can motors
    2. Kaydee couplers
    3. Central Valley trucks
    4. NMRA conformance warrants
    5. Tortoise switch motors
    6. Allen Gartner's Wiring for DCC board
    7. All the people that are on the web and exchanging ideas.
    8. Brass locomotives
    9. My wife who says: why don't you go and play with your trains.
    10. My daughters who say: Dad this is an awsome layout.
    enought for now, probably more to come.


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  5. Jerry Blomberg

    Jerry Blomberg New Member

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    I think it's hard to beat the "Heritage Series" Proto 2000 Mallet 2-8-8-2 loco. It is a superb model for the money and runs like a watch. It even negotiates my sharp curves without a hitch.
     
  6. Alan

    Alan Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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  7. StickyMonk

    StickyMonk TrainBoard Member

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    hello Jerry finally got my room done..... well not quite, i would like to see a re-run of the 2-8-8-2 as well as i would like to start getting some steam era stuff for my montana central

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  8. slynch

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    The Spectrum 2-8-0 out of the box runs smooth and slow with no binding. Best engine we have every seen of about the 100 or so here the guys own, brass or plastic. A pleasure. Everything all the guys said in the newsgroups are true. Get one...

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  9. friscobob

    friscobob Staff Member

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    These are a few of my favorite things, to quote Mary Poppins:

    1. Scale-size Kadee couplers
    2. Proto 1000 and 2000 locomotives
    3. Bachmann's Spectrum line (a step up from the J-class stuff they had been putting out
    4. DCC-ready locomotives
    5. DCC
    6. decent metal wheelsets
     
  10. GP30

    GP30 TrainBoard Member

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    1. Atlas Locomotives
    2. Sergent Engineering couplers
    3. Funaro & Camerlengo "One Piece Body" freight car kits
    4. Fast Tracks turnout jigs
     
  11. bremner

    bremner Staff Member

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    Simple, the Athern F7, cheap, reliable, and got many people into the hobby
     
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