Hi guys,

Maders Trains is now on Facebook. We have been having issues with our website going down alot lately. You can now follow us on Facebook to get live updates. We will also be posting new product announcements and other special offers and deals. Check us out!

Simply go to the "Find Friends" page and type in "Maders Trains" in the search box...

Hope to see some of you on Facebook!!

Warning to all members :mrgreen:

We are now on Facebook.So come on in and put your two cents in.Feel free to offer suggestions or critique if you wish.

Here is our page (such as it is) http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10...110&ref=mf

Sure its about a boat and not a train...but it is for my layout.

I'm searching for a source where I can either purchase a finished product or at least make some scale sized rope fenders for my tug to be placed in my harbour. I've come across a few decent sources, however I'd appreciate it if you fine folks have come across some really good sources of information in your travels. More specifically I'm looking for the large triangular shaped one that sits on the front of the hull.

Thanks as always.

...if any of our "left coast" Members have plans to hold a get-together for Big Blue Members, similar to the one instigated last spring by Steve (e-paw).

Day Trip For Gauge Members

The reason I'm asking is because I'll need to start my whining soon if there's to be any chance of the "Chancellor-ess of the Exchequer" making funds available for me to make the trip. I know that she'd be glad to be rid of me, but a couple of weeks worth of lodging, plus food and gas for "stoopid trains" may be a hard sell.

Wayne (eager for another road trip)

There's gotta be something or even somethings that grind your gears in this hobby, I'll start:


Local dealers from hobby shows and stores that handle 2nd hand rolling stock. They set the price so high for cheap items you cant think who would even buy them, and it's not custom weathered or detailed ones, it's the old tyco/bachmann hook-horn ones that everyone has. There's always some guy selling them for $10 a piece, what are they thinking? They never sell them and you end up seeing the same ones next time around. When you're at a show there's that guy again, and all you have to do is walk a few tables over and find the same cars in the $2 bin


Another one is Locomotives. I just stopped by a hobby shop out of town and saw a loco I was looking for, a blue box sw1500 switcher in the railroad I wanted. The price said $109, you got it $109! The guy said that's how much athearn is selling that model for. But really Athearn is but for a Genesis that's brand new, not for a 20 year old blue box with metal handrails. I tried telling the guy the difference, he said he'd let it go for $70

It's things like that that really get me about this hobby, some people think you can polish a turd and it's worth more, when in fact it's still a turd.

I thought this was pretty cool.

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Check it out, drawings of various locos for various railroads - hundreds of them.