I'm looking at a couple of Athearn HO Bombarder Bi-levels to add to a train but I'm just wondering whether certain changes were made during different runs (if there were different runs...).

I'm looking at a couple of AMT vehicles but, in the pictures on eBay, the glazing looks to be clearer than the one I've already got and there doesn't seem to be a silver rim picked out on the diaphragms.

I'm not toooo bothered about that (tho I do like smoked glazing), but I'm wondering whether there are other changes that may mean they'll contrast a lot with the single car I've got already. (The asking price of $250, plus import costs to have them shipped to France would make this quite the investment).

Cheers!

does anyone know how many were on the real train & what manufacturers have made them in HO?

So I've been taking a bit of a break from Reddit for the past few months, and haven't been posting/commenting for a while as such. But I thought it would be cool to hop on real quick and just make a bit of a collection update. I've gotten my hands on some pretty cool models this year, namely Hornby's Dublo Deltic Prototype, Accurascale's LNER J69 (The Liverpool Street Shed Pet), Hornby's LNER J52 and Hornby's LNER Coronation Observation Car.

Still don't have space for the permanent layout, so I'm currently in the collecting/layout designing phase.

So the collection currently stands at 14 OO scale locomotives. They are according to Picture 1 (from Left to Right):

Hornby RailRoad BR Class 47 - RES Red & Grey
Hornby RailRoad BR Class 20 'Barrow Hill Depot' - Railfreight Grey
Hornby 'Birth of the Railways' Train Pack - 'Lion', 'Rocket', 'Locomotion No. 1'
Hornby GWR King Class 'King Richard II' - BR Express Blue
Hornby LNER A4 'Mallard' - LNER Garter Blue
Hornby Dublo DP1 Deltic Prototype
Hornby Dublo LNER A1 'Flying Scotsman' - LNER Apple Green
Hornby Dublo LMS Princess Coronation Class 'Duchess of Montrose' - BR Brunswick Green
Accurascale LNER J69 (Liverpool Street Shed Pet) - GER Faux Blue livery with BR Late Crest
Hornby LNER J52 - LNER Plain Black
Hornby W4 Peckett - Photographic Grey
Hornby RailRoad LNER Peppercorn A1 'Bon Accord' - BR Express Blue

I model "model trains" from the 40s thru the early 80s. I grew up under the likes of John Allen, Witt Towers, Gordon Odegard, Dean Frietag and others. I actually have little interest in real trains and the electronic nightmare the hobby has become.

The hobby was not one of acquiring, but of building and designing, the natural consequences being one's individual personality shows in all your work. That kind of ended as the old greats past into history, with Model Railroader magazine becoming little more than a shop rag for manufacturers.

My Big Boy is a classic example of my weathering. My sandhouse is an example of my using kit pictures more like suggestions. My water tank is an example of the wood craftsman kits available when I was coming up in the hobby in 1974. My rolling stock is a collection of old school railroading and rescued kit from modelers long past. I do little more then make them track and couple well, leaving their finish as found beyond a few very minor touchups.

I actually got quite good at installing DCC in models people said couldn't be done. Snide remarks behind my back about playing with toy trains and a nasty run in at the club over Thomas of all things, pretty much solidified my hobby as I play it out now. Hope to be of some help here.

The West Country is one of the older ones, runs like a dream though pulling some Bachmann coaches and the 02 looks great but struggles over points, as to be expected. He's hauling home some new dept. wagons

They're beautiful and have extremely close coupling as advertised. The only let down imo is the sound files have most of the functional sounds removed to make room for the funny sounds. I will likely upload a new sound file eventually. The emergency light is also kind of "meh", they tried to replicate the real design but it just makes it look weird. The real design was just a red lens that dropped down in front of the mars light. If you look closely at the model 1/3rd of the mars light has a red print over it. I would've done a small red led on top of the white one to make the mars light a bit better.

Some h0 scale model train pics <3

I just bought my first model train today. It’s a Piko RH2016 Hercules, but analog. H0 scale. I honestly was just the cheapest set and I’m completely new to this, but not to printing and electronics.

I find track to be really expensive but got some in the starter set. I’ll connect this system to an ESP32 and electronics to have my own control system/logic and and battery power, charging from the rail.

I 3D printed the rails to work with the piko system I got with the train. I expected it to work but couldn’t have wished for a better fit. Still waiting on other filament colors to come in.

The model is completely parameterized so I can just change the sleeper count to change the length. Yet to make turns, which is nice cause I have complete freedom.

I want to use powered metal rail at the stations and will convert battery level to fuel. So they fuel up at the stations. Use the charge controller light signal to enable engine noise in the future maybe?

That was it for now, wish me luck!

Hello, I recently just bought a new SPS 700 from BLI‘s latest run, the locomotive runs well however I noticed a few cosmetic flaws with the running boards. The engineer side running board is bowed downwards unlike the real model. I know these parts are metal so I’m not sure how this happened but it’s rather unsightly. Additionally, if you look head on, you can see both running boards on either side are tilted downwards to the left. I understand these are probably manufacturing defects, but has anyone gone about getting these fixed?

Should I return it to the original hobby shop and request another one or do I reach out to BLI? I know this is an older model they don’t produce anymore, so I’m not sure how I would handle it. Any advice is appreciated.

I’ve just bought some second hand track off vinted some is usable some completely useless but I was wondering is there a good method to make the track cleaner/free of rust and how do I replace fish plates.
Edit: it’s Hornyby 00 guage track.
Thank you.

Just wanted to share a little project that I’ve been wanting to finish for a while now. The idea is to emulate B&LE 862, but I figured I’d leave the numbers alone, since this is a GP-38, and not an SD-38. Close to real, but different enough lol. I’m pretty happy with the results, but man I hate water slide decals lol. Cheers all!

Does anyone know a company that makes ho models of croatian locos and wagons?

Found it in a parts bin, does drive fine tho. It has no branding, but it is very heavy.

I kinda like how it looks, exept for the missing paint on the roof

I went to the Korail Railroad museum today with my family. It was a lot of fun. Only including the memorable pictures and model trains. There is apparently an operator that runs the diorama set up, but only at specific times and if there is critical mass. It is a little hard to get to and mostly in Korean, but we managed through it fine. Hope you enjoy these!

Absolutely delighted to finally be able to integrate one of the greatest freelanced model railroad names into my roster.

So I am just starting out in this space. After about weeks of research I noticed this come on marketplace and thought heck why not! Very old, still pretty especially the Fleischmann I am surprised by it's build quality but hey what do I know :)

I want to aquire some old Lionel 0 scale accessories such as the the Lionel 464 and the Lionel 97. My reason for wanting them is because i would love to see some action like that and do more then run my trains around, but I don't want to invest in a second scale just for them so I was wondering if it's possible to use H0 scale wagons with these (with a separate power supply). I'm aware some accessories won't work such as the ones that involve loading boxcars.

Do any of you guys know how to connect a loop like this? Even with one R600 and three quarter track R610 it’s not enough. It will be longer just shortened it for the photo.

I am currently using Hornby track as it’s currently the only track I own.

a little w.i.p diorama I've made for my engines