Model Trains

Use light grease around all the moving part s of the loco.

I've searched on the net and its about $419 to $500.

yes

Couplers differs from one model train to another depending on its manufacturer but within the scale there are often multiple coupler styles that you can change to depending on what you prefer.

19 inches in N scale is 253 feet or 405 meters in the real world.

Places where someone can buy a Marx train set are on Ebay, at auctions, at store that sells vintage items, buy and sell adds in magazines about trains.

Yes and No. When TYCO went out of the model railroading business in the 1980's they sold the plastic mold tooling to Model Power, who moved the manufacturing to Yugoslavia and Mehanotechnika made them under the Model Power brand until recently. The Model Power unit has a better drive train. but you'd be better off saving your money for a Bowser or Atlas model of this ALCo Locomotive.

That means one unit of measure on the model (inches, feet, meters, etc.) equates to 24 of the same unit on the real thing.

So for example if the model is 1 foot tall, the real building is 24 feet tall.

If you take exceptionally good care of it and it is a very good model, they can keep for over 40 years!

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Yes, the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners would like to hear from you.

The nearest train store to me is modelzone on west street in Brighton, east sussex, UK

The HO scale trains use a 3.5mm to 1 real foot ratio which works out to be about 1:87:1 and is the most popular scale for model railways in the world. A train for this type of track would have 16.5mm (0.650in) tracks.

They're not worth much. They were an as seen on tv product promotion and there are a lto of them out there. I've picked several up for $9.99. Less if the battery is dead like a lot of them are.You can also find them at some pawnshops.i found mine in gOODWILL FOR $3.00.

This is simple really .. set the problem up as:

4 as x

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28 42

then cross-multiply:

4 x 42 = 28x

168 = 28x

then divide both sides by 28 :

x = 6

6 inches.

For a simple problem like this though you could do it in your head. If 4 in equals 28 ft .. then 1 in equals 7 ft. Divide that 42 by 7 to get 6.

No, HO and N scale trains are not compatible.

We recommend 9 mm Birch Ply

yes u can

I got this set for Christmas in '74-'75. It came with a coal tender; gondola; flat car; and a caboose.

The sparks are caused by the train burning off dust etc. from the track. The smoke is either the train overheating or a side-effect of the sparks

They generally require no soldering, but if you wish to (to increase the reliability of the electric circuit), you apply a small amount of solder on the fishplates between the rails. Be aware that you won't be able to alter the layout after doing this

No, you do not need to have a dcc decoder to have directional lighting. See your local hobby shop, they should have a kit to put directional lighting in your Bachmann locomotive.

I do not know of any Locomotives that are made in the USA, but Accurail http://www.accurail.com/accurail/ makes rail cars kits in the US.

It was recommend to look at railserve.com. It is a directory for all links railroad related.

Rerailer is a tool that helps keep the train on track and terminal rerailer is the one that connects the model train to the power supply or electricity.