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Coupler sources

Who has the best price for Kadee #5 couplers? Jeff
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posted by jstanton
2 comments posted 18yrs posted by jstanton

old brass in atlas 83 code turnouts

My older brass locos have trouble getting thru code 83 turnouts and especially 90 degree atlas crossings. Beyond slippi...
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posted by anon
16 comments posted 18yrs posted by anon

Cars for O-Scale

What scale cars are most popularily used for O-Scale sets? I can't seem to find much in the 1:48 scale, but I see 1:43,...
9 comments posted 18yrs
posted by nospam
9 comments posted 18yrs posted by nospam

Slightly high "Buy It Now" price...

http://cgi.ebay.com/HO-Brass-Coach-Yard-SP-3501-Hw-bag-dorm_W0QQitemZ260215370146QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item260215370146&_t...
13 comments posted 18yrs
posted by nowayjose
13 comments posted 18yrs posted by nowayjose

Help identifying an old Walthers Gas Electric

This past weekend, I was at an out-of-town NMRA divisional meet. I stopped at a hobby shop I had never visited before w...
0 comments posted 18yrs
posted by gquNOSPAMale
0 comments posted 18yrs posted by gquNOSPAMale

Scratcbuilding products we'd like to see

Angles and plates with molded rivet detail on them - for making plate girder and truss bridges, and similar projects. S...
9 comments posted 18yrs
posted by mark
9 comments posted 18yrs posted by mark

mystery structure

I installed a building on the layout but don't know anything about it as I won it on eBay last summer. see it at http://...
4 comments posted 18yrs
posted by azrock
4 comments posted 18yrs posted by azrock

Noisy Bachman engines.

Hello. I have 3 N scale Bachman Santa Fe Diesel Engines and I'd like to use them but they all make the same noise, like...
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posted by rinoldix
1 comments posted 18yrs posted by rinoldix

Using Dual Headlights on F units

How did the prototypes use the dual headlights on F units? Which of the special effects in DCC decoders are most realist...
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posted by marshallabrams
15 comments posted 18yrs posted by marshallabrams

Atlas Switch Machine Doesn't Quite Fit

Hi- I'm wondering why the Atlas L remote switch machine doesn't quite fit properly to the #4 L turnout. The tie with th...
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posted by plinthes
1 comments posted 18yrs posted by plinthes

Floquil request

Loking for a long ago out of production color Diesel Purple Anyone having a bottle in the back of your cabinet ? I'd be...
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posted by BleuRaeder
3 comments posted 18yrs posted by BleuRaeder

Restoring old Lionel trains

Hello..I hope everyone is doing well today...To make a long story short..My mother would would have been 85 this year p...
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posted by SaraTGinMD
1 comments posted 18yrs posted by SaraTGinMD

train oders

See how to make an operating (I wish) train order rack and how to use it. If I could get the engineer to stick his arm...
12 comments posted 18yrs
posted by azrock
12 comments posted 18yrs posted by azrock

FS: 3 stock certificates gold frame

Ends Sunday http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170194940198
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posted by qmriis
0 comments posted 18yrs posted by qmriis