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  1. HO Scale
    ANYONE have a good clear instruction book/manual/article in mind?? I want to install DCC in old Mantua and Bowser locomotives (I have 43). Will buy a DCC controller and DCC decoders. Suggestions ? I would like to do it well and not fry a few decoders on the learning curve. Am just...
  2. HO Scale
    Hello, I hope this note find you and your loved ones safe and well. I recently dis-assembled my 2001 dcc equipped Mantua to install a new dcc chip and clean, oil, and grese the remainder. Everything went well, but I can't seem to figure out the best way to install the valve gears...
  3. For Sale Elsewhere (eBay, other forums etc.)
    Hi guys, I help manage a family owned cleanout company with my dad and we have a lot of train hobby items that we are selling on ebay. We even have some Lionel items! The link to our store is: https://www.ebay.com/str/mikediscountstore We also just sent a huge lot to a local auction house we do...
  4. HO Scale
    I’ll try to ask this question hopefully without revealing too much electrical ignorance. I have a DC Mantua (“Classics” red box period) 0-8-0 that suffers from poor electrical pick-up on the tender, which I think describes just about every Mantua steam locomotive I have owned. After cleaning...
  5. Want to Buy
    Hi, My youngest son is quite the little model train enthusiast, and I just built him a small 4x4 HO layout on caster wheels that he keeps under his bed. I had a couple old Bachman F units from the 1980s that I brought back to life for him to use, but I was hoping to find him a couple...
  6. HO Scale
    Hi there, first post ! I was needing some help/advice, so many thanks in advance :) I started going to estate sales and whatnot the last couple of months, and it is common to find model trains and such, but I know nothing about them, so I usually look past them since I don't want to buy...
  7. Model Train Videos
    This is a layout made by 7th and 8th graders for a coal fair in southern West Virginia. It was made over about 3 months. It earned second place at the coal fair that spanned over 4 counties. It is a CSX roadname and uses the old TYCO Virginian bottom dumping hoppers. Future updates will include...
  8. HO Scale
    Today, I visited the Whenham, Ma Train Show. The prize an older Mantua Pacific with a cast boiler and worm drive 5 pole motor. Not real old, the cow catcher and cab are plastic. Perfect condition? HA! I didn"t even asked if it worked. :) I took it apart and went to work. The motor, covered...
  9. HO Scale
    So, the my little pike, the WNC&P RR&N/G-WR, just got a Mantua 4-8-0 and a Walther's Doodlebug (CP & NP), and I'm happy with the doodlebug, new in the box, never ran, from a late modeler, but that same late modeler's 4-8-0 is a rough rider (wher'd it go, San Juan hill with Teddy?), and I'm it my...
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