the more I looked at the brown ballast, the more I hated it. So as of today it's gone. Sucked up by my shop vac. I am going with a medium grey in a finer grain.
My first attempt at ballast in over 20 years. I used a Medium Dark Brown. I am now thinking I should of used a grey or lighter colour. Maybe a finer grain also.
how many windows are there meant to be? The unit only has one powered truck and it has problems on the grade on my track. The crest is on a turn and it has a down hill grade through a tunnel. I think I need a cable car. It's long with the trucks right at the end. I think they were 85' or 90' units.
I picked up the RDC today. It's a Proto 1000 in VIA colours. I like it. Only issue is my tracks don't. I have 22" and 18" radius corners. It will do the 22 ok as long as the inner tracks are clear. As to the 18 well lets say it keeps the brush trimmed back.
RDC? I have only ever heard them called Dayliners. You learn something new every day. I have the last in stock one on hold down at george's to be picked up later this week. It is the LifeLike version. They had both CN and CP but they have sold out. The VIA was the last in stock version. They...
I still remember them running by my house several times a day on the CN main line. I know CN and CP both ran them. I also remember VIA running them. Anyway I thought I would like one when I was thinking or going CN. Then I decided on CP I had another look. I found one in VIA (last one in the...
they are usually in Loblaws stores or stores that sell PC products around Christmas. later on the blow them out. I found the ones I bought on the Craigslist in Toronto. He listed one. I bought it and I then found out he had 3 of them. I am picking up one more this week. I can check on the 3rd...
Hi all. has anyone had a look at the President's Choice sets? They are IHC
this is the IHC 2-10-2 in CNR loco 4100.
they are not bad. Runs very smoothly, low noise. The detail is pretty good. Any price very attractive. New in the store they run about 100.00 CND. I picked up two...