Oh, what do you mean, 'late'? Hah! Five days is plenty!
So, what is the contest this time? Ah: "Take a car, old or new, (the junkier, the better) and bash it into something else."
A car to begin with - check. An old, junky passenger car from some old train set.
Something else to bash it into - this will be an improvised signal box. Something else, after all, doesn't limit this to running cars, right?
What has been done: Disassembling the car, building a structure for it to stand on (random block of wood and bits of styrene) and stairs to reach it (scratchbuilt from bits of styrene). Painted a little bit.
What next? Detailing, painting, installing lights, adding a sign with the name of the accompanying station.
First of all let me introduce myself, Im from th uk norfolk, and have allways wanted to do a realy special setup but never been anywear long enough (ex forces) now Im out and got time and space that is ours any how Ill stop the waffel and show you what Im trying to ecomplish,
Now the theam I decided to go wiht was Canadian/ Ammerica, but not strictly so I could run many different types of loco including german and europeian, so hear goes with the pictures so far bare in mind its a work i progress
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A new poll for the newer Big Blue members.... an update for the long time members!
Recently, it seems that several Toronto-area hobby shops have either closed or converted into being online stores. In one case, one moved from a downtown Toronto neighbourhood to just outside of the city because it was more economical (George's Trains). I apologize in advance if this topic has been flogged to death in the past! but I'm asking it again here because it suddenly seems that the storefront type of LHS is quickly disappearing in favour of the online version.
I'm aware of the cost/economical reasons for this -- I just thought it would be very interesting to poll our members here and see if there is a pattern. I definitely fall into the "both" category, although I also seem to be buying more online lately. This is partly because of our high Canadian dollar -- it's currently very economical for Canadians to buy from the US or UK (I had another thread on this!)
I mainly support my LHS's but have recently bought more online. For example, I recently went into one of my LHS's asking for some back-scenes for a small British shelf layout I'm working on. They didn't have any but offered to order some in. I declined because I was pretty confident they would take weeks (even months?) to arrive. Instead, I bought some online and they arrived in 4-5 days! I think this is a good case in point.
I have dug out motors from old cd rom drives and tape decks that are identical to some supplied with model locomotives. I am assuming many model manufacturers use off-the-shelf motors to avoid the expense of designing a custom motor. The old pancake motors seem to be rather unique to model railroad applications, but what about the old open frame pittman motors? The only time I have seen a motor like that is in a model application. Were they ever used for anything else? Is anyone aware of motors designed specifically for model trains?
