So when can we expect to see dcc brakes to offset the free rolling trucks? mark rickert Sent with Verizon Mobile Email

Nelson Moyer writes: "Maximum grade on the mainline is 2.38%. Minimum radius on the mainline is 48 inches. Minimum on branch lines is 36 inches. Frogs are mostly No. 9 on the mainline and minimum No.

Doug Harding writes: "Say it's not so! An icon of the south is to be moved, perhaps even removed forever, from its sacred resting place. I guess those photos I took years ago will become treasured

Living in Houston, we build our homes on shifting clay. Any house built here that is 40 years old probably needs foundation leveling. Many a layout has been built level, yet with good wheelsets in

The SS Soo Line decals have been spoken for. Charlie Duckworth

Mike, Sorry for the delay. I didn't have all the numbers, so I had to wait for an email reply from a club member who had the information. Maximum grade on the mainline is 2.38%. Minimum radius on the

I converted the HO Soo Line 1920 SS boxcar to a NOT&M boxcar. If anyone can use the Soo decals contact me offline. Free! Charlie Duckworth

This lively subject has a lot of tentacles (or arms and legs); and in the end, there is less science than there is art and judgement in determining ideal roll ability. As Jon Miller surmised, I do

Trevor Marshall has been testing Sergent couplers for us. He models in S scale, but his blog mentions a few problems coupling to them because he found that cars on his layout were TOO free

Might have been that someone stole the brasses out of the trucks, too, Mike! This was known to happen to stored cars in our STMFC days. Train crews and/or carmen would have a look in the journal

Sorry Mike,try as I might I have been unable to document an O&W hopper ever appearing on any of the three previously mentioned railroads.Now the flat car might be of some interest..Have you tried the

Not to make fun of Reboxx (or my friend JP) but this is a uselessappliance IMO. For example, a Kato ASF A-3 truck will roll fabulously in this device.Then you put a car on those trucks, and the

>> Armand Premo wrote >> Which bringsup another issue.......................rolling quality.I would like tohear what members of this list do in the >> attempt tostandardize the rolling quality

Say it's not so! An icon of the south is to be moved, perhaps even removed forever, from its sacred resting place. I guess those photos I took years ago will become treasured memories, artifacts of a

This is kinda like comparing Apples to Oranges.....HO cars do not have the mass to roll like prototypes....I'm all for free rolling cars...but HO grades don't really compare with the real ones....I

Mike Brock commented: "We will include the coal load." Which begs the question - Why? After all these years sitting under the coaling tower did they finally decide that it was too good for those

Bruce Smith says: "Harriman, not Bruceford� unless the car has <GASP> moved?" Upon further review again, as far as can be determined, only the trucks remain at Harriman...rusted to the rails.

Not likely…. Bill Schneider

Bruce, Actually, the length of the grade is implied by the statement that the car must spontaneously start and roll for at least one car length. The standard states 2.5% or LESS, and the implication

Mike, Harriman, not Bruceford… unless the car has moved? Regards Bruce Bruce F. Smith Auburn, AL https://www5.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Some days you are the bug, some days