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I am working on an HO New Jersey Transit GP40FH and am wondering how short the rear of the fuel tank is. I am using a Bachmann RTR GP40 as the frame with an Athearn BB nose and cab from a GP38 and a BB F45 as the rest. Sine the fuel tank comes off the frame, would it be easy to shorten the frame the...

Yes, they are former BNSF/ATSF B40-8W units owned by the Nashville and Eastern.

Ok. I heard that Bachmann re-tooled their AmTubes with body mounted knuckle couplers and did a mold upgrade too, but people say the diaphrams are too huge unlike Kato's. I also hear the lettering on the Bachmanns are still a little large. I hear Kato AmTubes have a large "empty" space by t...

Who makes the better N scale AmTubes, Kato or Bachmann?? I am thinking of modeling a mid-late 90's San Diegan and can't decide which to get.

There wa a movie in the late 90's/early 2000s using BC Rail MLW widecabs and no, this is not Atomic Train I am thinking of, nor did the movie make use of Atomic Train footage. It is another movie. Saw a clip of the derailment scene in a movie train wreck compilation thing on YouTube. Does anyone kno...

Just finished chalk weathering a CSX hopper car and finished it off with some dullcoate and forgot how stinky and smelly it was and now I am trying to find some non smelly/odor free alternatives that would do the same thing as dullcoate. Any ideas?

What are the current status of the "Train Of The Gods" Zephyr set and the other Zephyr sets that are currently in Saudi Arabia? What actually got sold to Saudi Arabia?? I know most or the entire "Gods" traain got sold and I heard another complete set and various other Zephyr got ...

Turns out another club member had the same problem and it also turns out that a "gremlin" was using the same number as his locomotive. This was an intentional incident and the "gremlin" has been delt with accordingly and not allowed back. Next time I am at my club I will test run...

I have a Digitrax DT402 throttle and run trains at the club I belong to. Recently my locomotives started acting funny. They randomly go from 0-99 when I have the locomotive stopped. Sometimes they dreail (haven't had any go off the layout yet). I don't think something is going on with my club's DCC ...

Does anyone know where I could find a G scale locomotive shell? I have a Traxxas R/C truck I picked up at my LHS years ago and was never really into R/C as I was model railroading so it has been sitting unused in a box for many years. So I dug it out a few days ago and thought aybe instead of the tr...

I have been pondering for some time now what will replace DCC? You really can't go to any hobby shop and not see on the locomotive box "dcc quick plug equipped, DCC ready or w/DCC/sound". Since its introduction in 1989 do you all think DCC will eventually be replaced? If so, what would rep...

Anyone in the "tri-state" Mississippi valley area of northeastern Iowa, Western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota, come visit the West Central Model Railroad Club In Sparta WI. It is an HO scale layout with DCC. Almost every Monday and Thursday around 7:30 PM we have people running trains, h...

Does anyone here model T gauge? Can I find any T gauge American Prototypes? I was thinking about making a little oval layout for fun over the summer.

May have been done on the Filmore Western RR,a shortline north of LA near Oxnard Ca,used by a lot of movie/TV production companies,for most RR involved scences. The same could be said for the scence with the Alco S-6. Was the Filmore and Western in operations in the late 70's-early 80's? I know the...

Looks like they must have done more than one train jump! because the one I found on youtube doesnt look like the one you describe.. there is no "Hazzard Southern" visable, and no one would mistake the locomtive for a GP35.. so im guessing this is not the scene you are referring to: http:/...