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Why Do You Railroad?

I was curious why you are involved in model railroading? I know some people worked on actual railroads and have tried t...
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posted by iarwain_8
15 comments posted 20yrs posted by iarwain_8

The Caboose

Hi, I was hoping that some of you could answer these caboose questions. [1] Are there scenarios that would justify more...
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posted by brennanfineart
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AC - The Montreal River Trestle

Building this trestle: http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/ACR/acr.htmhttp://www.trainweb.org/algoma/Images/Locations...
13 comments posted 20yrs
posted by bear
13 comments posted 20yrs posted by bear

Brooklyn Locomotive Works - your experience?

Brooklyn Locomotive Works http://www.blwnscale.com BLW has some stuff I want at what appears to be a good price. What i...
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posted by bear
5 comments posted 20yrs posted by bear

Walthers catalogs 1988 onwards

Can anyone help me with the with this? I need scans of pages in the Wathers catalog from 1987 onwards of the Master Cre...
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posted by newyorkcentralfan
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Snipped: a6et's steam loco observations

Folks: I cut & pasted this so it wouldn't get lost in the flame wars. This is a nice HEAP of steam lore, provided by po...
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posted by pawlowsk002
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Model structures you'd like to see.

Folks: I thought of this one at the LHS the other day, over lunch break. What model structures do you feel are missing...
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posted by pawlowsk002
4 comments posted 20yrs posted by pawlowsk002

Where do you have your layout?

Just curious, where does everybody have their layout? Basement, garage, living room, club, where? I used to have one in...
49 comments posted 20yrs
posted by iarwain_8
49 comments posted 20yrs posted by iarwain_8

AC - Modeling the Black Bear Route

Hello all! First post to this group. After years of aimless poking about, I've decided to get serious and model an actu...
14 comments posted 20yrs
posted by bear
14 comments posted 20yrs posted by bear

NTTX 66099 - who built it?

Anybody know which builder manufactured car NTTX 66099 ? I have a hunch it was built by NSC but I don't see a builder's...
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posted by j.barnstorf
2 comments posted 20yrs posted by j.barnstorf

Autopulse connection

Hello, I just received an Autopulse transformer I bought off ebay, I was wondering how do you connect the transformer to...
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posted by Diecastone
2 comments posted 20yrs posted by Diecastone

New trolley models

As promised, now on my homepage the new trolley models in the series "maintenance-cars"part 1. Test, history and as usu...
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posted by dsoet
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The Boy Mechanic

The Gutenburg project has put this early 1900s book out in .pdf. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12655/12655-pdf.pdf 17...
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posted by richard
7 comments posted 20yrs posted by richard

Layout Expansion

I finally have a bit of room to start my first layout ever. I am looking into doing smaller layout ~4x3ft in that area....
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posted by me
3 comments posted 20yrs posted by me