I KNEW that. The Navy sent me to Great Lakes … TWICE. 1966 & 1965 Both times in the winter.
Roberson usually has a train show in January. I have not heard about this year and tried to call Roberson today to find out, but they are closed to Jan 14th. I will try again after that.
I know the past few years it has gotten smaller and smaller. I hope they still have it.
I don’t belong to the club, but they usually do set up a layout at the show outside the Planetarium, along with the area’s garden club.
If I find out after the 14th, I will post here.
It’s been some time since I saw anything from forum member Broadway Lion, but he’s also an enthusiastic subway guy. This is his YouTube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/BroadwayLion
He has a 10 minute video of subway trains / elevated trains running. The video quality is pretty good, and the layout, although still early in development scenery-wise, is impressive.
Yes I should be slapped for that one… What I am talking about it the L train.
It’s not the “L” train!!![:O] It’s the “El” train!!![:-,] (From an old NYC (Brooklyn) boy!!)[8D]
Nope, sorry, in Chicago, where I come from, it is the “L” train.
The NY “El” is short for elevated!![:)]
What would the minimum radius be for this train?
So’s the Chicago “L”!
Must be a regional thing - like pop instead of soda!![:D]
Not that it has much to do with the original topic, but here in the Boston area that fizzy stuff you drink is “tonic,” and the subway trains, whether below ground or above, is “The T.” And if you want ice cream in your milk shake, better order a “frappe,” pronounced “frap.” Police don’t drive police cars, they drive “cruisers,” pronounced “crusahs.” Khakis? That’s what you use to staht the cah.
I haven’t done a minimum radius check on my P1K subways. I run mine fine on 18-inch radius curves, and I’d imagine they will take 15 easily, maybe smaller. On my original Redbirds, I installed the end gates from Images Replicas. These can interfere with minimum radius, even at 18-inch. The factory-installed ones in the later generation of subway cars are shorter and don’t pose such a problem.
The sharpest that I have is 18"r but they clearly could handle much sharper. They appear to be about 40 scale feet per car.
I don’t know about the newer production runs, but the P1K subway sets that I have both came with low-grade plastic couplers. I’ve been replacing them with Kadees as they fail. #5’s or #58’s are an easy drop-in replacement. Other than that, these units have been running fine for 3 1/2 years now.
Although my R17 trains only leave the flat lower level for the occasional wheel cleaning, I do have some steep inclines on the way up to the surface. These grades exceed 5%. It’s only a short 4-car train, and the powered unit has no trouble getting the train up these nasty hills.
I remember an April issue of MR a few years back with an article about subway modeling–track in PVC pipe burried in the yard, using hamsters to clean the track. I can’t remember what year, but it was a great read. [(-D]
Ron
The green ones are on clearance for $150 but I really like the looks of the red ones coming in March. (R17?) Think I’ll send a reservation
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In NYC it is always the subway in general. The El is in the other three boros and the L is the line that runs from Canarsie to 8th Avenue along 14th street in Manhattan. Which brings us to my all time favorite gripe about model train manufacturers. Where are the BMT and IND trains?
(how that moose got on the IRT we’ll never know)
Side note: I thought the 4-5-6 IRT was a dirty, crowded and not evoking of a feeling of safety and security. That’s nothing comapred to the dingyness and noise of the PATH trains.
(still wondering about that moose)
Folks:
On the subject of mosaics, a photo print might work really well, if you could get a good picture.
Easy. He boarded the IND at Penn Station and changed at Lexington.
One of my all time favorite model photos.
Although O scale this is a fascinating site showing off some good modeling.