"Anthony Isaacs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I bought some Kinsman kits and a Rex suburban <snip> >all my Heralds except 1 which has a photo of Ed Loizeaux at PCR-NMRA. >Hi Ed.
Hello Anthony....I'm speechless (for once), but I will say you must gotten one of the better issues of the original S Gauge Herald (Grin). >And my questions.......... >It seems there are no 1900 era freight or passenger trucks >available? Click here: http://www.remsmodels.com/SKits.html and you will see that this firm makes box cars (outside braced and double sheathed), a gondola car, and a flat car which are freelanced models generally following the truss rod styles commonplace in the late 1800s to early 1900s. These appear to be wood craftsman kits which are not very expensive. Unfortunately, these kits come without trucks. Can't help you much here. >Question: When making up trackwork does one bend the >rails first? How do you get smooth bends, for a constant radius? And >for easements? For mainline track try soldering the rail ends together while both are straight. Then bend the soldered connection to whatever curve you choose. There will not be a kink and the curve will be smooth. Just follow the line you lay out in advance. I use a long piece of wood molding for irregular curves. A string with a pencil is used for genuine circles. > For closure rails and then a Straight frog? I suppose just following the line you mark (trace from a diagram?) is not the answer you are looking for. Sorry, cannot help much with this question. >I love the look of British track work, are curved frogs US prototypical? >From what I hear, most US prototype switches have a straight frog, but there are some exceptions. I don't know enough about it to be more specific. Maybe one of our track work specialists can help here. >I'd love to meet you all, see your trains, maybe I'll make a NASG convention one day. "S"ee you in Altoona or maybe San Francisco some day. Let me know when you are coming and we will arrange a visit. Cheers....Ed L. The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
