16mm group releases new book
Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012
For those who model English railroads in 14mm- to 16mm-to-the-foot scales, The Association of 16mm Narrow Gauge Modellers is an indispensable resource, which in recent weeks has gotten better. The group said this fall that it has revised its Handbook, a publication distributed to all members.
The 64-page book provides modelers with photos, plans and diagrams focusing on running garden railroads on either 32mm (1¼-inches) or 45mm (1¾-inches) track. The Handbook has been written by the group’s most experienced modelers and provides guidance on every aspect of the hobby, starting “from the ground up” — planning the line, surveying the area, building a base for the track, laying the track and “building the pointwork” (building switches or turnouts).
Water-detection system is back
Friday, Dec. 30, 2011
An electronics package that senses when water is low in a small-scale live steam boiler is once again being manufactured. Bill Ford of BF Industries of Fern Park, Fla., said in late September that he will be doing a limited production run of the Water Level Detection System.
Ford’s system has a small light that changes from green to red when the water-level in a boiler drops to the point of danger.
Forty-foot, 1:32-scale flat car released
Friday, Dec. 23, 2011
Northern California’s Custom Model Products Inc. said recently it is beginning its new line of 1:32-scale rolling stock with a 40-foot flat car, with markings available for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Reading Railroad, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific.
The flat car, made in brass with stainless-steel wheels, will have “outstanding graphics” and will be painted in red, yellow or brown.
Out of print back issues to appear on web site
By Dave Cole Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011
Hobby magazines thought lost to the sands of time have been digitized and will be made available for free to small-scale live steamers starting Jan. 1, 2012.
A trove of back issues of Steam in the Garden magazine was discovered earlier in 2011 and has been turned into digital files by Scott McDonald, since early 2011 a co-owner of the magazine.
Live-steam ‘Flying Scotsman’
Friday, Nov. 25, 2011
Accucraft UK Ltd. said recently it is developing a 1:32-scale live-steam version of its London North Eastern Railway A3 Class “Flying Scotsman.”
The company had sold a run of the locomotive in electric, which it described as “very successful.” The new model will be gas-fired, with a stainless-steel chassis, copper boiler, brass boiler jacket, brass cab and tender and steel drivers.
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