Fragile is an understatement 
You were being especially nice, HJ.
No snarky emoticons, no sarcasmā¦nothing 
Ralph
I would just like to know how a deleted member can still post
Dave Marconi said:
I would just like to know how a deleted member can still post
I donāt believe he can, Hollywood.
I think he made his last post, then deleted his membership
Ralph
Itās that LOL you betcha not telling the truth thingā¦
It may be a language issue, my boss is French and he can sound very āsnarkyā when I know full well he is not.
As far as checking wheel gauges or track gaugeā¦Never had a reason. I am a bit over zealous with my track work and seldom have a derailment that is not immediately remedied by removing a stone or twig from the track. Truth be told I use only LGB/AML track/switches, would certainly be different if I laid my own.
My track work rarely causes a derailment. The operator is another story
Jon Radder said:
My track work rarely causes a derailment. The operator is another story
Thatās the case on most railways I ever had the pleasure running trains on. Of course there are always the cases where the owner bought inexpensive track and/or had no clue how to lay track. That happens from Z to LS.
We seem to have the mentality as model railroaders that every loco should be able to run everywhere, on every layoutā¦it Just tāaināt soā¦I actually have industrial tracks where the K27 will not runā¦and the Four Truck Shay will not fit! EGADS!!! The shame of it all! Being like a real railroad and suchā¦
Yesā¦but I can get 3ā long cars with body mounted close coupling to turn on a 4.5ā radius and possibly a 4āā¦Iām proud of that
If youāve seen Roosterās videos and photos of his scratch built Amtrak fleet, you should be aware that they do not look ridicules
Ralph
David Russell said:
Yesā¦but I can get 3ā long cars with body mounted close coupling to turn on a 4.5ā radius and possibly a 4āā¦Iām proud of that
As you should be!
Easy to criticize, harder to accomplish something!
Ralph Berg said:
If youāve seen Roosterās videos and photos of his scratch built Amtrak fleet, you should be aware that they do not look ridicules
Ralph
I wish we had a ālikeā button!
The question with tight radii curves and turnouts is not ācan I make the impossible possible?ā it really is āhas it any resemblances to what I see on the proto.ā
Oh BTW there was an excellent 1:24 streetcar layout at the Calgary show . It looked just like the real thing!
Just giving Rooster a hard time, his Amtrak fleet is great, and of course he is talking curves TWICE what the GG-1 is traversing.
The R1 curve is dying with all the nice new full length, prototype cars. Let Aristo sell the foreshortened toy passenger cars, not to mention the RMT stuff: (for tiny curves)
RMT is for Gauge 0, anyway.