There is a 3' gauge Porter 2-6-0 at Nevada City, CA--
Glenn Joesten

I didn't say they weren't--just that they are BIG! and msny modelers might find them bigger than they think--and pass them by.  gj

Another possible extension from a Combine could be a "What-If"-A "Colorado Rail Annual" recently, covering the narrow gauge passenger cars--showed a proposal  for a motorcar from a combine similar to the one that was converted from a standard gauge car.   

I would say at least the same range as the long cabpoose--

I would first want to go with an RPO-Baggage, and a coach with optional bay window--tobe able to run a train similar to the Chili Line abd other short/mixed trains.   Or to "test the waters, a combine with  an optional cupola--I have seen the Accucraft cars and think they are too long for me. 
Glenn Joesten

Bachmann's instruction manual for the C-19 is not very clear as to thich screws to remove to allow installation of Kadee couiplers. 
On the engine under the pilot there is a rectangular cover plate held with two fairly large screws.  Remove them, take out the Bachmann coupler. Unscrew the small screw in the middle of the shank, reemove the Bachmann coupler and install a Kadee #916 coupler on the Bachmann shank.

On the tender, in the middle of the end sill, from the bottom, remove the large screw at the center of the plate, then the two small screws.  Change the coupler as above and put it all back together.  I found it handy to take out the tender truck screw and move the trusk forward to gain a bit  more room.

I have sent this to Sam Clarke at Kadee.

Glenn Joesten

thanks--I am not on you-tube--can the DVD ber urchased?

Sill be working on Kadee 900-series coupler installation--this one is not easy like the K-27--will pass my results to Sam Clarke at Kadee.  gj

My C-19 arrived today, and I have just finished unpacking it.
All my previous Spectrum locos have included a DVD with history andf instructions for set-up and lubrication.  I don't find one here.  Is it missing or no longer supplied?

Thanks.
Glenn Joesten
Yreka,. CA

Kadee has some long-swing coupler mounts--does Sam have a sample of the Forney to work with"  LGB solved the problem in G Scale by lnly cazlling the loco a "Forney", when in factg the eay they built theirs was as a "Fairlie"  (with the chassis swinging under the boiler like a truck--Also known as a Mason Bogie") when Mason built them.  gj

I used to be in the Salinas CA area--the City Redevelopment Agency took over sevedrfal blocks--and spproached ouir club with an offer of a building (we selected the Railway Express Building)--we supplied the labor and the city supplied materials.  The Amtrak Coast Starlight stops right in front of the building.

Of course, this presupposes that the building can remain where it is.  If the RR insists it be moved, you have problems.  I had experience with HazMat remedciation--having the costs of dealing with asbestos and lead remediation, if those could be eliminated by sealing over the building (a couple of good coats of paint??) and get the building on a donation or a long-term low price lease that would save the building and eliminate the railroad's liability--this mighe be a route to take.

Oh, yes--it can help to have suitable professionals  in the group that can steer things--we had two architects and an engineer in our group--and a couple of contractors--

glenn joesten

Kadee also has couplers witeh the head offset up or down--gj

check your track geometry for humps and sags.  Mack sure  couplers are all at the correct height. gj

Precision Scsle's On3 loco parts cataloghas drawings, Trackside Details may have parts.gj glennk28

Good video--buit one "derailment" in the commentary--the C-19's were biilt in 1881. Robert Grandt's "Narrow Gauge Pictgorial, Vol. XI" has the constructikon info for all the narrow gauge locos.  Also, you could have mentioned that the three survivors of the class can be seen (often under steam) at the Colorado Railroad Museum at Golden (346) and Knotts' Berry Farm in Southern California (340 and RGS 41).  gj

just "Rio Grande" as a movie will get you John Wayne and no trains.  The movie you want is "Denver and Rio Grande"gj

I see the "LBH" series as an earlier entry-level line for those that are a bit young to handle 8-wheel cars--and don't like the Thomas line.  It gives the litttle guys a chance for trains that can kee- them out of Daddy's / Grampa's trains--gj

In the Grandt Pictorials thereare morfe locos in Vol. 11.  The box headlight on 345 Bumblebee was part of her movie makeup--will it have an explosive package to recreate the wreck scene with 319 as 268's "stunt Double"  RGS used anything they had around.