Hello I have a Rivarossi Alleghany I am putting back together It is missing the screw to hold the boiler on and also the screw that holds the cab on. I was hoping to get screws from my local hobby shop. If I was to get a tap set could I tap new non metric holes for the screws say something like 2/56. I never realy tried taping for new screws but it looks easy. I would need to also do the tender shell. Any ideas or help apreciated. 

Joe 

I decided last year to get back into the model railroading and have spent the winter cleaning out the basement spare room and unpacking/assessing my equipment after 20 years in storage. I had a layout with completed trackwork and some scenery and have been looking it over to ascertain the needs to rewire it for DCC.

My Thing-A-Week challenge got a little delayed due to my wife and I both coming down with the nasty cold that has been going around. It lasts about 16 days or so, with the accompanying cough, so neither of us got a lot done over the last three weeks or so.

That said, I am finally feeling better this week, so I have returned to work on train stuff. Alas, due to a lack of parts for the electric locomotive (I need to get some wire, tiny single-wire connectors, and so forth), I have had to shelf that project for the time being.

I need some help.  I'm fair with Sketchup, but I'm pretty much limited to geometric shapes and mechanical things.  I'm useless at freehand sculpting and organic shapes.

I need a goose, like the one below: