Re: {S-Scale List} Silence can be good at times

2013-09-27 Thread shabbona_rr
Ceres Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. To: S-Scale@yahoogroups.com From: bill@... Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:43:08 -0400 Subject: {S-Scale List} Silence can be good at times Posting about the list being it being quiet

Re: {S-Scale List} Silence can be good at times

2013-09-27 Thread Peter Vanvliet
Last weekend I re-converted my AM FA2 to S-CAB. I had removed the components before so that NWSLcould replace the stock AM motor with one of theirs. The S-CAB components I passed around at my clinic at the NASG convention were the ones removedfrom my FA2. Now they are back in their place.

Re: {S-Scale List} Silence can be good at times

2013-09-27 Thread shabbona_rr
On another front, my literary skills seem to be returning, and I have been working on an article manuscript that no editor in his right mind could resist, so be warned. On the other hand my typing skills have not kept pace, so everybody should be safe for a while. boB )String forever!)

Re: {S-Scale List} Silence can be good at times

2013-09-27 Thread Bob Werre
S scale content: I finished a clamshell crane for unloading gogondola loads of sand at the ready mix and concrete block factory at Mooar Yard. boB Nicholson _ boB, Whose crane would that be? I've been looking for something like that, that

Re: {S-Scale List} Silence can be good at times

2013-09-27 Thread shabbona_rr
Bob: Mine was a Buy it Now from Ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/MODEL-POWER-HO-SCALE-TRAINS-WALKER-SON-SAND-GRAVEL-RAIL-CRANE-BUILDING-KIT-/370845617922?pt=Model_RR_Trainshash=item56581f0f02 It's small, but I mounted it on a raised base, and it don't look to bad boB --- In

Re: {S-Scale List} Silence can be good at times

2013-09-27 Thread Andre Ming
Hi Peter: Thanks for your article and information. The NWSL motor replacement was a slight improvement, but in retrospect not worth the cost. I have quite a bit experience in repowering, and it appears to me that the the motor used is too small for the heft of an S scale locomotive and

Re: {S-Scale List} Silence can be good at times

2013-09-27 Thread Bob Werre
boB, Over the years much of my work has been photographing cranes doing impressive things. A company call McDermet had a barge with a crane so large, we would have to use a G gauge model to come close to it. I've also been in traveling cranes in shipyards. They run on rails and are about

Re: {S-Scale List} Silence can be good at times

2013-09-27 Thread Charles Weston
. wade...@ix.netcom.com To: S-Scale@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 9:44 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Silence can be good at times   On 9/27/2013 10:43 AM, Bill Lane wrote: Posting about the list being it being quiet? (:-)   Who is doing real S Scale modeling? Let’s hear about