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Lionel KW repair

I just put a new whistle disk/rectifier in my old KW, and some posts, and two new rollers, when i was putting the main...

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posted by joef70

2 comments posted 18yrs posted by joef70

Steam Locomotive Part Name and Number

I just bought a LionMaster Western Maryland Locomotive & Tender 6-38022 from ebay. Two of the plastic parts which hold...

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posted by u40954

6 comments posted 18yrs posted by u40954

MRC F7s

MRC's got B units on sale on their website, but with B units you also need some A units. Anyone got any leads as to whe...

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posted by puckdropper

0 comments posted 18yrs posted by puckdropper

new construction photo az rock

See a rare construction technique on the logging repair building shed, plus a surprise. http://www.rrscenery.com Phil An...

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posted by azrock

1 comments posted 18yrs posted by azrock

Overland T55?

This is strictly a question about T55 products from Overland, it's *not* a loaded question about the future of the comp...

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posted by mark

22 comments posted 18yrs posted by mark

Protype railroad vehicles

On a prototype railroad mail list a request for pix of railroad trucks and vehicles was posted. Seems all roads had del...

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posted by Whodunnit

3 comments posted 18yrs posted by Whodunnit

Business car

I am thinking of building an O or G scale business car, probably starting with a commercially available car, such as th...

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posted by westover

4 comments posted 18yrs posted by westover

sal decals

looking for decals for the orange blossom special for the 1953-54 grey and red paint scheme. lettering is red. emmetk

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posted by u40886

2 comments posted 18yrs posted by u40886

Railroad model panning

My first article appears in 08 Railroad Model Planning and it's about my study the late John Allen with his seven by thr...

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posted by azrock

3 comments posted 18yrs posted by azrock

Rivarossi motors

Anyone know of a source here in U.S. for a replacement motor for an old Rivarossi H0 Krauss-Maffei diesel, or for inexpe...

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posted by tcol

8 comments posted 18yrs posted by tcol

Hand laid hand spiked track on foam?

Does it work? Do the wood ties have enough grip on the track spikes all by them selves? Last time I handlaid, the roadbe...

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posted by dstarrboston

3 comments posted 18yrs posted by dstarrboston

Athearn electrical insanity (kinda long)

I've been struggling with my Athearn since I converted it to DCC. I replaced most of the friction type electricals with...

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posted by nobody

9 comments posted 18yrs posted by nobody

A general note on colors

Apropos the recent question here about what color to use to represent the wood decks of flatcars, it seems worth mentio...

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posted by nobody

1 comments posted 18yrs posted by nobody

bof ( basic oxygen furnace)

I am looking for a Basic Oxygen Furnace kit or plans in any scale. So far I have had NO luck. Any help would be apprecia...

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posted by jmurr1

7 comments posted 18yrs posted by jmurr1

And now another question.....

I have about a dozen flat cars that I'll be using in a diorama-type of setting. While they look very "pretty" with thei...

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posted by Andyroo111

6 comments posted 18yrs posted by Andyroo111