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To be honest I was expecting young Mr Read to be first off the mark here. Busy getting preped for this weekends bash not doubt!!

Cheers

Dan

Hi all Am taking delivery on Sat of one of the new HO KATO METRA F40s plus 3 coaches. I'm looking to put sound in the loco and possible some sort of accessory chip to control the coach lighting. Ahead of this I'm after some prototype info: 1. Does the prime mover on the F40 stay constantly at Run 8 ...

Hi all The below pic is my effort at jazzing up a stock HO Ford L9000 cab unit to look a lot less plasticly than the off-the shelf item make by Atlas As a base I managed to find a set of photos from a US auction website of a particularly 'well used' example to use a base for added detail, painting a...

Ant Thanks. The on line customer spurs were designed using the idea is mutiple 'spots' on a single spur a la Lance Mindheim. Thus the agri-supplies dealer has 3 distinct spots - one over a drop pit for unloading covered hoppers, one next to the loading dock door for palleted goods from box cars and ...

For anyone wanting to start out on or improve their weathering skills I can highly recommend 'The Weathering Shop' website and it's associated forum 'The Rustbucket'. Subject matter does lean towards the more modern era but techniques on show are well worth looking at http://theweatheringshop.com/ C...

Thanks Koos

Forgot to mention that all the GE's have been sound fitted on DCC. The 70's were v straightforward, the little red critter less so!

Dan

Galatia, KS is my (not so small at 13') shunting plank representing a rural Kansas shortline in the near present Galatia itself is actually a real location in Kansas. From 1919 it was also the terminus of the Little River Sub-division of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) railway and remained...

Mike

Like the lumber spur - a lot of detail in a small space but doesn't look cramped

Dan Spalding

My screen name gives the game away - Santa Fe (All the Way). Initially it was the combo of the resurrected Warbonnet paint scheme on the Superfleet Dash 8 & 9 and fast GP's with long streams of TOFC across the desert then later the classic era of F units and the classic transcontinental passenge...

Nice!

Just need Kato to play the game and scale their N scale cars up to HO

Cheers

Dan Spalding