Road Trip a commin!

We will be at the 27th annual New Braunfels Historic Railroad and Modelers Society, Inc. train show in New Braunfels, Texas on April 9th, and 10th.  The show is at the New Braunfels Civic Convention Center, 380 South Seguin Avenue.  Show hours are Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to 5 PM.  If you are in the area, come and visit.  For more information, contact:  Jimmy Edmondson at JEdmondson@satx.it.com  See you there.

Comments

[Bill Fornshell]

Hi,

Nice to see you are coming south to a train show. This show is one of several that I visit every year and is about 30 minutes from my home in San Antonio, TX. I look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks

My local train club sponsors two shows a year in San Antonio, TX, one in January and one in July. If you like the trip south maybe you could come back in July this year.

Bill

[Dave Miecznikowski]

Bill,
Not to change the subject, but weren't you interested in rolling stock? Passenger cars maybe? I'd like your opinion of what I posted the other day.
Dave

[Bll Fornshell]

Hi Dave,

I just saw the Passenger car this evening. I think it is great to see you thinking about train items. I wanted to comment and offer to do a test build or 10, but thought it might be a bit to early to mention the test build.

I have a lot of the new MinitrainS HOn30 engines and a few of their passenger cars. I will buy your new Passenger car or cars as soon as you offer them. I have the MinitrainS Fiddletown & Copperopolis Railway models but they haven't made any rolling stock yet. MinitrainS might think the F&C line is to small a market for them to add much to and that is where Clever Models might jump in with some western narrow guage looking rolling stock along with your Passenger cars.

I can bring a few of my F&C 0-4-0 tender engines and others to test run on your layout if you want me to. I have made few card stock buildings for an F&C theme layout such as the Fiddletown Depot, a four stall round house, a water tower, working on a turn table, a one track repair shed, and an assortment of other western style buildings. I lot of my card stock models are a join effort between myself and Paul Egir and a few are a "bash" of one or more of your models and textures.

Bill

[Dave Miecznikowski]

I would love to see if that equipment will run on our layout. We won't be ready for production on the passenger equipment for a while yet, but maybe we can have some discussion about rolling stock needs in general. Please bring your ideas and any pix if you have.

[Paul Egri]

I know for the most part this thread has been put to bed But along with Passenger equipment dont over look the small 4 wheel contractors cars and mining equipment some of us who are into HOn30 use it to support an industry as opposed to a common carrier The trick to these small cars would be adding weight to make them track well on the sample side dump car I made from your gondola parts I made a pair and set them on a minitrains 4 wheel frame I made a sheet metal weight that i glued to the deck of rhe frame and glued a paper texture to the weirght to simulate a wooden deck I had to modify my design mostly by just printing it smaller but the cars still bounce all over the place If you ever do that coal mine a few static paper mine cars on some paper track comming out of a minehead would be a nice detail extra