I would personally think that you all are forgetting Duke the lost engine. because that is the very first narrow Gauge engine. also was the very starting point when Rev wrote the Narrow Gauge stories. at that time he was a volunteer with the Festiniog Railway in Porthmadog.

The coaches from the narrow gauge line that have been preserved from when they used the models both have faces and no faces. so doing a sort of mix is totally possible. but from Bachmanns stand point it would be easier to only have 1 kind to save on starting molds.

as for Freight cars you do also see some small vans and gondolas when Rusty is out repairing the track. so there is more freight cars around you just have to look for them. 

just our of curiosity. have you thought about adding street lights in the city yet?

yea i have not been able to get another brake car yet. but then how many americans model British railways and so forth. your railway does look awesome except why did you not use cork roadbed?

bugger that. that means i have to go back the drawing board and testing grounds on what is the next best track to use. i will start of with the EZ nickel rail. will keep you posted on the testing.

my pullmans feature Merchant Navy 35028 Clan Line, 1st class kitchen Minerva, 1st class parlour Onyx, 3rd class Parlour NO 97, 1st class Parlour Leona, 1st class Kitchen Adiran and 3rd class brake NO 65. the train measures 74 1/4 inches from buffer to buffer.

I found that buying the cheaper DC locomotives and upgrading them to DCC tends to actually be a bit more costly in the long run. 30 of my locomotives are still DC but all together cost me the same as to buy the New Atherns Genise SD-70 Alaska Railroad with sound and DCC. the other locomotives do not have as much good looks to them as the new SD-70. same with my passenger stock. instead of buying regular passenger coaches i have bought walthers proto coaches and on my British line some Hornby Oriental Express coaches with lights and full interior.

Dear bachmann will there be any more steel alloy rail variations coming out. I would really like to see a few more switches. I find this stuff is great for taking my HO outside. provided i take it in every 2-3 days or when there is rain coming up. and give it a good cleaning.

thats the unfortunate bit. Disney still has the copyright on the Disney Railroad. they did allow a limited run of some stuff for G scale but i have yet to see any intelligence in their marketing department as to considering us HO scale people.

what draws me more to DM&IR is what they did with their motive power. when the yellowstones took over on the main line they other mallets where put to ore dock service. they would glide a string of ore cars down proctor hill to the ore docks. tend and switch the dock out and haul the empties back up the hill. the pull back up proctor usually ate the whole tender of coal. the 2-10-2s became the yard switchers, shortline runners and passenger service until the 50's. so for such a small line they had some of the biggest locomotives on the planet and for some of the oddest jobs too. just imagine a 2-8-8-2 switching empty's around on a oredock.

fox valley has no South shore in their production list. but they may be considereing it soon.

Quote from: Irbricksceo on September 15, 2014, 05:43:16 PM
Ha! The woes of a canadian Modeler. Remember kids, there are four railroads that everyone has heard of, whether they like trains or not! Pennsylvania, B &O, Reading, and Shortline!

Not exactly as not everyone lives in those regions. I am in the midwest region southern Wisconsin and i have never heard about the reading or shortline. but everyone here have heard about the railways that have or had ran through this area. so not totally true. base it more on region not just ohh its the B&O.

I am not to sure of brass. I was looking into it at one time but after major problems with my other brass models occured. I would rather go through the conversion process of a non brass locomotive.

Anyone here know if there are any kits or stuff that can be used to make a Chicago south shore & south bend interurban car. I work with a few at East Troy Electric Railroad but would like to have a few models of them to run on my HO/OO gauge layout too.

that is the benefit with the DM&IR yellowstones. you can see all of them in 1 day. it takes a week to see all the Big Boys. but for me the best option is to just start off making the minor changes of the bat. such as head light and tender. the challenger centipede tender in scale is actually 1 foot 5 inches longer then the M-3/M-4 tender. so slowly but surely. i would get it to look just like the real thing. its a good thing i have a few friends in the missabe historical society to help with finding the proper conversion parts. but as a college student, it may take me a year just to get the model and tender.

Dear Bach man.
I am wondering if you guys will release a M-3 M-4 version of the B&O EM-1 with the centipede tender and the DUluth Missabe & Iron Range R.R markings and yellowstone wings. if not is it possible to get a seperate adaptable centipede tender so i can convert a EM-1 to a Missabe road yellowstone?