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- - I just completed programming some CVs on my newly purchased LGB 22892 DC/DCC Sound Sumpter Valley Articulated Mallet. Historically, the Sumpter Valley Railroad bought both the #50 and #51 mallets from the Uintah Railway in late 1930s, reconfigured them by removing the loco water tanks, and then operated them with tenders attached. This LGB Sumpter Valley model uses the basic design of their LGB Uintah loco, both produced by the original LGB (Ernst Paul Lehmann Patentwerk) in th...
    
    LGB Onboard DCC Decoders - Programming T...
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    My trestle is now over 15 years young (this is the second), and this year it gets replaced. I've gotten older/lazier and rather than buy, load, cut, glue, and nail wood for over a dozen and a half bents, probably cutting myself several time in the process, it is now far easier to let the computer do the work. I've been wanting to just cut the bents out of 3/8" acrylic sheet on the laser cutter, but 3/8" acrylic is costly (i.e., $70 a sheet for a 2' x 3' piece in minimum lo...
    
    New Trestle Going In..., Totally Unique!
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    Here's a cool pic of a very small Pacific with a heavily weathered combine: [url]http://ctr.trains.com/photo-of-the-day/2019/03/timeworn-combine-tiny-pacific?utm_source=Yesmail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=News0_CTR_190320_000000[/url]
    
    Cool pic of small loco w/combine
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    Prototypes
    
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    Talk about prototypes here. It's not just trains through the tulips!
    
    1 Gallon for $5 in Danbury. 2 Gallon for a bit more, $12 I think. I bought 6 of the 1 gallon to replace a few that have died and add a few. Check your local listings
    
    Check Walmart etc. for closout Dwarf Alb...
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    I was waiting for Ken to start this thread since he is a big fan of winter. Start with Christmas and December. Not much snow or much of a winter.
    
    Winter photo thread
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    I got some time to run a short train on the first day of spring ..
    
    Spring Time video's
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    Not sure if this is the correct place for this question, but I'm looking for site or ideas for creating a fun and interactive switching game for my scouts to have fun with. I'd like to set up some track with switches and sidings to create a puzzle like game where the kids have to problem solve and get things to the right place. I appreciate anyone's comments. Thanks, Richard
    
    Switiching Game
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    Operations
    
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    Into more than running your trains around the patio? Discuss here!
    
    I have been away from the list for awhile but getting back into everything. Has any operations software been developed for a Mac? I know none had been a few years ago. I use a Mac Ipad and Mac Mini.
    
    Operations for Mac?
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    Train Operations Software
    
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    Just picked up a basically NOS Bachmann Fn3 Murphy Roof box car. It had a rough trip here from FL. Two of the stirrup steps are busted off, both doors and door stops off and one coupler shank shattered The doors and stops go back on with little effort and I have spare couplers so that is a quick fix, but the steps I'm undecided on. I could check with Bachmann to see if they have any, but white metal steps are just going to break again. I could seek out and buy some...
    
    Bachmann Fn3 stirrup steps
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    Finally got a place I could actually set things up, while temporary, for the first time since I was sleeping through trigonometry. Here are some highlights from last summer/fall and hoping to expand as that raised flowerbed allows.
    
    Farwell, Lafayette, Irving, & Prospe...
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    Indoor and Micro
    
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    Not all of us have a yard, or want an outdoor empire.
    
    I had the first run of my MTH Challenger. Really liked it, good sound and tracked well. http://youtu.be/TyvmV70BK8Q
    
    MTH Challenger First Run
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    I just started a new article here https://www.largescalecentral.com/articles/179/passenger-car-conversions
    
    Passenger car conversions
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    Hello all! New guy here. I am looking for a USA Trains J1e Hudson in excellent running condition to add to my growing fleet of 3 other engines (Aristo-craft 'Lil Critter and 2 USA Trains UP GP-9s). I prefer the NYC road #5343 (the one with the silver / grayish front) but would seriously consider any road name / number. Smoke & Phoenix sound preferred. If no forum member has one to sell I would appreciate any tips elsewhere. Have started to look at eBay and at least one large scale Facebook page...
    
    Wanted: USA Trains J1e Hudson
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    For Sale/Trade
    
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    Have something train related for sale? Post it here! (Don't take advantage of it, please, or I'll want a %age!)
    
    I just finished editing and uploading a fun little video composed of some off-road clips and scenes from my 2016 Mojave/Nevada trip, and featuring my Toyota 4Runner "Megaweapon". Let me know what you think: [url]https://www.youtube.com/embed/e4hgXMvgqS0[/url]
    
    Megaweapon Hits The Trail
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Modeling
- - John was interested in my rolling stock work, so I thought I would share one. Most of my work has been upgrades and mods to available models, but I do have one scratch built project. During the 70's and 80's, thousands of steel rotary gons were put into service in Western Canada hauling coal and sulphur. I currently have seven under construction, six coal and one sulpher. ( 4xCN / 1xProcor / 1xBCNE / 1xSultran ) A four foot length of styrene cut to the right length gives ...
    
    Steel Rotary Gons
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    Yeah I know what you are thinking ......Here we go "Gather round the campfire, get out the weenies and marshmallows Rooster is gonna tell us a story" Then we can all sing Kum By Yah while he spits bourbon on the fire and plays a 12 string with 7 talons (lost one in a cock fight years ago). So yesterday at the York show I was asked (along with a few others) if it was possible to do such. Then of course a discussion of LIGHT thought on the subject with others (council) ensued....
    
    Mounting USA streamliner trucks on Arist...
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    Would anyone here happen to run Lionel diesels?
    
    Lionel Diesels
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    So came across this track ballasting car while looking for work train stuff. Pretty cool and a fun project to add to the work train. Patent Track Construction book * if you can't tell there are two links. The one that says Patent has the description and all the drawings of the spreader. The language of the patent does a good job of describing what it does and how the part work together. I think with some creativity a person could make this from the patent information.
    
    Scott Ballasting Car
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    Reference
    
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    Discussion area for reference drawings and information.
    
    The old church, a structure made by "K's" buildings, has finally rotted to a state where I no longer want to put it out. It is to be replaced by a POLA engine house that was given to me in pieces some years ago. The structure has the right shape for a house of worship and is a match to "Porsche's Shell Station" located next door. The pieces to change this were cut on the laser in acrylic. I've already shown the steps in another thread. They were cut, glued tog...
    
    New House of Worship on the T&LB
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    Technical Modeling
    
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    For the new year I decided to find out just how well figures will hold up in a hostile climate. Or possibly I just like to torture figures.... Since New Mexico has some of the highest background radiation and UV levels in the country I would say that most of you should get as good or better results than this from your people. If not I highly recommend torturing them until performance and moral improve.. I have attached factory painted figures from 8 different manufacturers to a 2X4. Be...
    
    Figues Durability Test 2019
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    Figures
    
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    Ok guys, If I can still participate, this is what I decided to build. This will be going to friends railroad when done...It is a water tower. I had on hand a section of 6 inch dia pvc pipe I cut of at 8 inches long it will be cladded with wood. below is a start of what I have....... Here is what I have started.......
    
    Travis's Mik challenge 2019
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    Well, this has been an interesting weekend. Photo bucket which had hosted my pictures since 2008 has become ransomeware and is requesting $500 to allow them to post here and the other fora I participate on. Now that is the cost of a very nice On30 locomotive with DCC and sound. I would rather use the money to purchase a locomotive. So................. I am restarting the thread for the original Kittom Lumber Company, a backwoods logging railroad set in 1910 on the Kentucky/ Tennessee border. I ...
    
    The "Original" Kittom Lumber C...
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    The smallest Large Scale
    
    Chuck Inlow had asked me a few months ago to get photos posted of our 1/8th scale trains. I told him I would as soon as I built a railroad on which to photograph them. Well a few days ago, I started building the track for this "little" layout around our house. I had some rail leftover from a 7-1/2 inch gauge railroad for my kids from thirty years ago. But the problem was the wood ties. I found the solution to that problem from a company called Northwest Foundry and Railroad Supply in...
    
    Building a BIG "little" shortl...
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    Other Scales
    
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    Does anyone have any experience with THESE I think it would be fun to play with. I was looking for a mini drill press and don't really use a rotary tool enough to buy a variable speed one and a drill press stand for it. I also don't want to spend a fortune on a good one from say micromark. This will be a very limited use sort of thing so just can't see dropping a bunch of money even though I know "you get what you pay for". But like my harbor freight pin nailer and my harbor freight disc/belt sa...
    
    mini 6 in 1 milling machine
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Power and Sound
- - In order to get more operating time, and to give my old bones a break (metaphorically speaking), I am building a modest size indoor 1:24 scale layout. I considered functional power poles on my outdoor layout but the hazards of maintaining them on a ground level layout were obvious. Indoors, however, with no critters of the four-legged or grandkid kinds wandering around on the layout, it seems a better idea for lighting up my structures and lineside equipment. A huge bonus is not having to fold m...
    
    Functional Power Poles Indoors?
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    This showed up today. I'm thinking it's going to be a fun new year. It's spitting out Xbee packets exactly as advertised
    
    New Toy - Protothrottle
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    Hi, I found a used Accucraft livesteam Mogul on eBay for a very good price and couldn't resist. This one will become #1 on my Southern Palatinate Railway. I'll go to rebuild her to the look of the Colorado&Southern Moguls , which are favorites of mine. Therefore I'll add some changes to the tender, which acutally needs a lot of rebuilt, and I'll shorten the wheelbase of the loco to a more C&S-style wheelbase. I found photos on the internet showing such a rebuild and I like it much more...
    
    Rebuilding an Accucraft Mogul for my SPR...
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    Live Steam
    
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    For those of you that like to burn your fingers while you run your trains
    
    I am a little out of my depth here, so I hope one of our electronic experts can offer some advice. These guys are LED drivers designed to maintain constant brightness on some high-power LED spotlights, (which are on the other side of this clump of rock.) The spotlights are very, very bright. In the store, under store ceiling spots, it wasn't apparent, but at home we keep it not so bright, so they are overpowering. My usual solution would be to (a) install a dimm...
    
    LED Drivers
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Shows and Conventions
- - Well, I am, my wife, and we'll sync up with Ted D. at the show. Looks like a lot of effort has been put into the tours, a lot of layouts are listed. We'll be there Wed evening - Sat am Greg
    
    Who's going to 2019 NGRC Portland?
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- - Charlie Ro said USA Trains got all their molds back from Kader/Bachmann. Tom
    
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    I have been commissioned to do 2 Baldwin Sharks from Facebook, I figured the one that I scratch built a few years ago is lonely I can do 1 for me as well I started with a reference drawing, the guys measurements aren't 100% compared to the D&H unit i'm modeling but I can correct those issues later and here is the 3d model that's being extruded from that drawwing I should be able to start printing parts by the end of next week if all goes as planned The frame w...
    
    RF-16 Baldwin Shark - Design Phase
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    As well as complete 2.4 GHz R/C systems for Live Steam and Large Scale battery power, RCS offers a large range of bits and pieces such as 2.4 Ghz Rx's, ESC's, R/C switches, Sound Systems, installation kits, connectors, and performance add-ons. Over the years, these have all been popular, but expensive postage charges limited their appeal. To assist customers who only want one or two of these often hard to find items, from now on they can have them shipped post free Worldwide. Go to ht...
    
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    Am I missing a link to the web site ? It would be nice to have one hear. Sean
    
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- - Hey folks I havent done an update for a while, and I know there are some issues hanging as far as bugs, etc. The company that provides the software I run LSC on has been doing a major re-write of the software. They are adding more security and spam prevention (Oh boy do I get spam), and a bunch of new features. They wont be rolling it out until fall/winter 2019, so I dont expect to even try to have it up on LSC until next year about this time. That does, howe...
    
    General update
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    "BodyValue is required and can't be empty" - What does this mean in the attach photo section?
    
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