I like to run my Forney with all sorts of equipment and have found it to be very versatile in that respect. It looks good with four-axel freight cars with a large or small caboose, or with passenger cars. Today I took it out to see how it appeared with a consist made up of gable-bottom field railway cars.
To my eye, the field railway cars look good with the Forney.
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HI Bill
Now you only need another twenty of those little ore cars to fini***he train[swg]
well not really.
But it does look good.
Is that the FR caboose at the back or something else??
must get some more cane trucks if they are still made thats the problem with the FR stock it may be small but you need loads of it two just don’t look right.
regards John
Bought a “DCC ready” LGB Rio Grande Forney two months ago; trying to convert to DCC, but find LGB has not even delivered to our dealers its DCC decoder (or sound) for the conversion. I’ve got that sucker totally dismembered on my workbench–where it’s been for the past 2 months–waiting for the decoder. Haven’t even test run it! (Looked at attaching a US decoder, but the LGB 8-pin connector has pins so close I fear screwing it up!) Now I find we won’t get the decoder until April at the earliest!!! (But I do admit, it’s a keen looking engine!)
John, this is the same caboose as seen in a picture behind my Porter. It’s an LGB shorty woodside, product #46656. I have to agree with you, two field railway cars are not enough. A longer string looks much better.
Kim, I like to think I have a vision when it comes to my garden railway. Hmmm, on the other hand maybe it’s those mushrooms I ate last evening. [:D]
GD, hang in there. LGB always seems to have a way of making things right.
I wanted one of these, even got as far as lloking at one out of the box, but the wife said No Way !
So I built my 16-wheeler from what I had laying around the workshop, more or less. Thats where I am today, scrapping the old to build the new, Lucky Bill gets a spanking new shining Forney, Quote Napolean Dynamite “Luckyyyyyyeeeeee”
