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16 Months/27K Miles Later, I STILL LOVE THIS CAR!

16 Months/27K Miles Later, I STILL LOVE THIS CAR! Pros: Fantastic build quality, great performance, unique - not a cook...

1 comments posted 18yrs

posted by L.Lucern

1 comments posted 18yrs posted by L.Lucern

Mantua 2-6-6-2 dis/re-assembly help needed

A friend asked me to fix his Mantua 2-6-6-2. I've figured out that something is jammed or stuck, I suspect the plastic...

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posted by wolfkir

3 comments posted 18yrs posted by wolfkir

Can the straight path through a turnout be considered diverging?

I'm installing dwarf signals to indicate turnout setting, using green for normal and yellow for diverging. Usually norm...

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posted by marshallabrams

26 comments posted 18yrs posted by marshallabrams

HOT CARS

Great Marvelous race between the Honda Civic Type-R European version and Type-R Japanese version. This famous automobil...

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posted by jianbabygail

0 comments posted 18yrs posted by jianbabygail

Model This!

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_derail05.38d1f33.html Really a nasty one. I often ride past...

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posted by nowayjose

11 comments posted 18yrs posted by nowayjose

You might find this useful...

Amusing, wot? http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ The link was posted as an answer to a NZ idjit that I've kill-filed on alt.rec.m...

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posted by wolfkir

9 comments posted 18yrs posted by wolfkir

Low flange wheels for Arnold Rapido

Hi all Can anyone tell me which wheels I need for Arnold Rapido Heavyweight Passenger Cars, to run on Atlas Code 55 N-s...

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posted by janbouliweglaten

3 comments posted 18yrs posted by janbouliweglaten

Layout Design ideas

I've got a space 10'x20' where the space is confined by walls. On one end, there's the rest of the building, which must...

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posted by puckdropper

9 comments posted 18yrs posted by puckdropper

Piedmont Division Model Train Show this weekend--March 8-9

The annual Piedmont Division Model Train Show is coming up this weekend--March 8-9--at the Cobb County Civic Center, Ma...

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posted by paul-voelker

0 comments posted 18yrs posted by paul-voelker

eBay: Lionel Girls Train Set (1957)

http://xrl.us/Girls1957

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posted by nobody

1 comments posted 18yrs posted by nobody

Re: Sort of OT: The Truth Will Out!

THEY DID IT TO SCARE PEOPLE AWAY FROM AIR TRAVEL SO THAT THEY WOULD RIDE MORE TRAINS.???? Oh palease... The WTC lost mo...

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posted by BucSoprano

11 comments posted 18yrs posted by BucSoprano

Question about HOn30

Hello all! Don't know if anyone remembers me: I was posting a year ago or so about a On30 Halloween layout project (whi...

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posted by flyingdragon64

3 comments posted 18yrs posted by flyingdragon64

Shanks on couplers

I see knuckle couplers advertised with long, medium and short shanks. Is there a way to tell which I need? I live over...

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posted by dharstad

8 comments posted 18yrs posted by dharstad

El Capitan stops in Williams AZ.

A reappearance of the El Capitan in a Railroad time machine form seventy years ago? Of course it's a hoax. http://www.rr...

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posted by azrock

3 comments posted 18yrs posted by azrock

Broadway locos

Does this brand make quality HO locomotives? Nephew again, and he needs (Okay, I THINK he needs) another diesel locomot...

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posted by dharstad

33 comments posted 18yrs posted by dharstad