and for lots of us probably. I had an interested person in the
club, but he was hoping there was a wiring diagram. Apparently so far there
isn't.
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have more on hand.
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53 foot
containers in the latest schemes, where there just wouldn't be the market
for DPH to do them, and copy the sides, ends, top, blow up to S, and glue
together. They wouldn't pass close scrutiny, but would look good from a
certain distance.
tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
.
Incidentally, the original question here can be answered with a ruler. Forty
foot is an outside length in ISO containers.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
putting the pilot back on. And don't be ashamed to read the manual that
comes with it.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
- Original Message -
From: Jonnyspeed
Did you fix the pilots?
No. I'd like to, but that's for someone with a lot more digital dexterity
and time than I have. If such people do not exist in S, we're in trouble,
but I'm sure they do exist.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
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From: Ed
I did not do the conversion myself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
We guessed as much.
Who did the quick repaint to NYC for you?
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From: Ed
DPH and Ron Sebastion were at O SCALE WEST . . . . . . . . . . . .
Has anyone ever noticed that he always signs his e-mails Ron Sebastian, not
Sebastion.
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- Original Message -
From: Bob Werre
. . . . . One HO scale club from Corpus Christi, Texas did have a great
layout with a large container port complete with maybe 40' sidings, hundreds
of containers and a close-to-scale false front ship to hold them . . . . . .
. . . .
Sound
was listed. All the towns seemed to be accurate.. . .
. . . .
You can hear it all again, and see them reading the scripts, at
http://bcove.me/0fl71la8
I thought about the late Chuck Porter when Oconomowoc was mentioned.
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, PRS, DPH, SMMW, c.
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Any idea of the purpose of the metal plate on the underside of the roof, just
behind the cab? It's connected to the circuitry with one wire.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
likely, since it's connected with only
one wire. I'm in the process of removing all that Lionel electronics too.
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- Original Message -
From: Don Thompson
. . . . . . . .. When I searched the web for images of the EL 2320 guess
what I discovered . . . .
If your search engine works like most, you discovered some outdated
information on Eagles Lodge # 2320.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing
. But the other truck has the same two wires, and then two more wires.
What purpose do the extra pair of wires going to that truck serve?
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
There are in fact three wires going to that second connection to one of the two
trucks. The mystery deepens.
tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
It appears that the three wires going to one truck only go to a very small
component which is held by a bracket just above the rubber roller(?) on the
axle in the center of the wheelset farthest to the rear of the loco. I still
wonder what its purpose is.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
item
#5, 691BEMCC01 BEMC / MOTOR DRIVER / A-F U-BOAT 5 $80.00 Must contact Lionel
to order. is probably the main component of the electronics.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
and then select by model.
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http://www.lionel.com/products/finder/ProductDetail.cfm?ProductNumber=6-48639CatalogUID=DDAE43C2-1016-347D-DC5ECF578C58070APageID=2075
Anybody can change trucks couplers.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing MI
an entirely different perspective on HO modellers.
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And 3-axle trucks are good, have been ever since Mr Gilbert made the ALCo PA
with 3-axle trucks (even if he forgot to put in the center wheelset). Didja
see the article in Trains Mag about forthcoming SD70ACe with B1-1B trucks
instead of CC?
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
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From: Thomas Baker
. . . . . . .I saw some photos in the S-Gaugian of someone who had kitbashed
a GE U-25 using Durham Industries shells. . . . . . . . . .
Didn't that one even make the back pages of Model Railroader? In a Jim
Kelly column?
Tom
This is about one of the SD70ACe now in the Lionel Catalog. I am forwarding it
with the original author's permission, and he added
BTW, a photo of UP 1989, the DRGW Heritage unit, I photographed in December
2011 at Milpitas
http://www.locophotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=121852
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of his coil cars. I am credited with giving him the plans,
but I had simply given him a copy of an instruction sheet from an HO kit,
which I got from Dave Wehrwein.
He was always a pleasure to visit with at conventions sprees.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
recall reading that one of the terms of the privatization contract was
that the corporation would remain bilingual. How you say wet noodle in
French ? La nouille humide ?
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From: Don Thompson
Tom Hawley can tell us what state started putting the stripes on outer side
of the road...
For outer side, I have no idea. For the centerline, it was either Michigan
or California. (Sounds like a RR.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
and asked him Think you'll ever
make any more S scale stuff? His response No, we leave that up to Dan
Navarre.
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- Original Message -
From: Billy Click
Danny sent a note to Brian Marsh and his reply is below.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I just got similar note from him. I'm doubtful there are enough
modern-oriented S gaugers with that kind of money, but I'm ceretainly
hopeful.
Tom
forwarded it to BNSF
modelling group since it has BNSF locos. It can be found on U tube, but I
have a little computer problem right now, so I can't find URL for you. Look
under General Electric.
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://www.nmra.org/standards/sandrp/pdf/rp-15_1.pdf
Presumable it will be about 0.125 inch high, but what about the other six
dimensions?
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From: Lon Walker
Hi Bill or Jill,
Can you explain what RRM is? Thanks. . . . . . . .
No Bill or Jill here, but see
http://www.riverraisinmodels.com/
tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
From: scale S only scaleso...@cableone.net
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them on both sides since most of their engines had dual control.
Rick Jesionowski
+ + + + + +
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We don't. The person who started it was apparently unaware of the Available
S Gauge group.
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Loizeaux for getting our adrenaline flowing briefly anyway.
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My mother's Aunt Minnie saw a train.
- Original Message -
From: Howard Sheffield
I understand and will announce a price as soon as one is available or at
least an estimate if possible.
Howard
On May 22, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Ed wrote:
Jace.Will you PLEASE call me right now at
- Original Message -
From: Ed
. . . . . . . . . If support and promo is all that is needed, then Don
Heimburger should have won it by now. . . . . . . .
FWIW, I think Don is one of the few who have got the Bernie Thomas award
twice.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
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I think there should be an Enhorning award, or a Larry Jackman award.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
from New Zeeland, shipped by postal service, by
air on 11 May.
tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich USA
is a good idea, and should not require the
permission of the NASG.
But dropping the traditional judged contests may be more difficult. I
suspect they're quite important to some people.
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possibility, but I once brought something special to a convention or
spree or fest, don't remember, and asked if they wanted another car to run.
No, we have our own trains. I was told. But we've had the Schnabel car on
our SMSG layout.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
to the real dichotomy in S which is
not AC v DC, but rather the peaceable v the argumentative.
I wonder how many people get in this list to see what S is all about and bail
out when they see all the trivial arguments.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
with improvements. But that leads to another question.
I imagine all research and drawings for the SHS proposed but never produced bay
window caboose have gone to MTH. They of course may do with it what they see
fit, which may be nothing. But how did it differ from the AM bay window
caboose?
Tom
that's the way Athearn spelled it.
tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
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It’s about time! . . . . . . . . . . . .
Identified as S this time?
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, ran a train the whole show. I won't tell you who my helper
was at one show who crossed wires somehow and almost set the place on fire.
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I wouldn't forward this were it not for the fact that we once had a kit in S
for an all-door boxcar. Conversation on the MFCL suggests that such car is
essentially a bulkhead flat plus doors roof.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
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From: Jim Eager
To: m
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it, and then look to see what scale it is.
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interests (probably nobody)?
If the those who chose to join the NMRA's S scale special interest group
want to create a similar function, that's fine, but I suspect it will never
have anywhere near the number of members the NASG has - even if you count
only the modellers, not the collectors.
Tom
and Lionel are both
making and apparently selling such locos to the O gauge crowd. So we hope
they know what they're doing.
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offerings, see http://www.mthtrains.com/news/452
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- Original Message -
From: Greg
Anything AM makes, MTH makes in O.. . . . . . . . . . .
I put fp7 in MTH's search, got no results. For test, I put in f7, got
several results.
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Has anyone figured out the purpose of the little foam-rubber strips inside the
fuel tanks of Lionel's U33C ?
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
, photographed by Andy Sperandeo.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
a million of them to those so
inclined.
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will be having a bit of an inventory-reduction sale.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
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http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/tennessee/chattanooga-12774017/
tom
American Models is sold out of the scale versions and only
has DC and AC hi-rail available or am I missing something?
This had the potential to be a fun discussion until someone spoiled it by
saying that the way to find out is to phone or e-mail American Models.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
-ft boxcar, maybe others.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
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From: Bill Lane
. . . . . . . . . He also mentioned Marcway turnouts which I have never
heard of.. . . . . . . .
Marcway was the British maker of the Whiteoak turnouts.
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, the way toy train turnouts do.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
.
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enough, even if it is true HO,
and flashes just the way it should. But Ring Engineering certainly could be
more cooperative.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he
would never be found out. -Thomas Babington Macaulay, author
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From: Roy Inman
Don't get it, but in poor taste.
I generally don't like me-too e-mails, but in this case, I agree.
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the new flatcar
Iron Rail Models showed us at Chattanooga.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
together.)
. . . . I also missed, much to my regret, seeing and speaking with Andy
[Malette]. . . . . . . ,
I talked to the Perfesser briefly. He had some kind of nerve problem in his
right arm that has curtailed his piano playing. Hope he gets relief.
Tom Hawley
on
the previous day when John I first spoke.
I got that Southern shirt at the big ex-Southern locomotive works - now
museum - at Spencer NC. It was a side trip after helping a friend move to
Greensboro NC.
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floor, but he made for my club the scrap metal loads we sold
with the GTW gondolas when we ran the Spring Spree.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
determine that it
would be impossible to simply replace the highrail drivers with drivers of an
RP25 profile? Obviously there's be a lot of disassembly reassembly work, but
still . . .
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant
, and they do offer helpful information to serious
inquiries. . . . . . . . . .
Modernistas will find the same thing on the MFCL (Modern Freight Car [Yahoo]
List). A lot of it is about the accuracy or - more often - inaccuracy of
various HO models, but some of it can be edifying.
Tom
of wheelset profiles and turnout dimensions, and pay particular attention to
the dimension called check-gauge. Note how the check-gauge of the wheelsets
interacts with the check-gauge of the turnout at the frog.
Or just forget AM highrail track and FastTrack, and go with scale track.
Tom Hawley
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on some of its freight cars.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
flextrack. But a person probably could use
this method and put down tie plates and spike every one of them.
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own modelling needs don't require precise accuracy for
specific cars, though that would be nice if easily obtainable. I'd just like
to see something under those cars to make them a little more realistic than
they are with absolutely nothing down there.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
O wad
too far compared to the side of a loco or car
is 1¾ inch. Some of you must have very accute sense of proportion.
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From: Don Thompson
Too funny...but, maybe what we need...
We visited this place in the course of an NMRA regional convention a few
years back.
http://www.steeldynamics.com/products/rail/
They had one.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
...@mth-railking.com or ri...@mth-railking.com
.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole
France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
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From: scaler164
. . . . . .As far as hostilities are concerned... I have suspended them
permanently, Tom. We may have all been blind (and confused, and lost, etc.) men
at the convention, but I'm not so much anymore thanks to the convention. It's
easy to have
or overhead
wire and run strictly GG1s other electric locos.
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Brer Ming speaks of running AM loco 52, a C420 ALCo. If you want to see what
he's talking about, see
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=17979
tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
and have not
received 1 thing yet.
I get e-mails from MTH regularly. I'll forward one to you.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
.
.
Once upon a time Omnicon sold kits that contained Enhorning / Wabash Valley
shells with improved detail and paint by Tom Lennon, and parts, mostly NWSL I
think, to make a drive unit.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such
character
, scale highrail, SMMW kits, and
maybe some intermodal stuff.
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Here's a little more information on trucks, extracted from messages on the
MFCL. Some of it it may be beyon the practical limits of S modelling, but it's
still good to know. -- Tom Hawley -- Lansing MI
Truck sizes
WheelJournal
Nominal Size Bearing Size Wheel Diameter Wheelbase
40
available
separately. Not including them with every item might help them keep costs
down.
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they are doing has little or no interest for the scale modleler?
Apparently Mr Hoffman disappoints you by failing to speak a discouraging word
to Lionel.
It's a matter of attitude. I have SD70s covered hoppers on order thru
Charles Ro.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
Charles Ro are
taking advance orders, and Lionel certainly communicates with them.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
?
Prompted by the above I made enquiry. I got this response, to which I
responded that I will cancel my order with Charles Ro
Tom,
I do apologize we will not be making any scale wheels.
Thank you
Lionel
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
just a clear
plastic floor, affix one of the offending ACE trucks, and roll it thru the
frog guardrail area while watching carefully.
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gone.
We always enjoyed being invited to Jack's little get-togethers in his
basement the Saturday night of the Berea Carnival train show. Beer,
pizza, stories . . .
My condolences to all family and all hobby survivors.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
. The same would be true of our NASG directory.
BUT; identity theft is now a common occurrence in our computerized world..
It takes more than your name and address to steal identity.
The cancelling of the directory is an over-reaction to fear-mongering.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
Lionel to
ALLOW someone to make scale wheels that would replace highrail wheels on
their diesel loco wheelsets? Without their permission it can't be done?
If we didn't have MTH also talking about an SD70, that possibility would
merit serious consideration. NWSL could probably do it.
Tom
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You talking about one of these? (See attachment)
If we're talking about loading gauge clearance, see
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/prr497125.jpg
and
http://www.borail.org/BO-No-CE-15.aspx
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
John Degnan
2. Inclined to build kits
3. Still using over-size flanges maybe over-sze couplers too.
??
We can't say there are none, but I suspect the number is very small.
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From: bbbogart56
. . . . . . . . . . So those of you out there that have NKP kits that you
do not want to build drop me a line.. . . . . . . .
I'm sure I have some No Known Prototype kits here somewhere. Let me dig.
tom Hawley -- Lansing Michigan
Allegheny
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
. . . . . . . . .
Mr Sebastian was at the NASG convention in Chattanooga, showed parts, and
said he was making good progress. I can't imagine him investing as much as
he has into this loco and then giving up.
Tom Hawley -- Lansing Mich
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