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    The lead in to Coal Dump Curve where Wall Station and passenger shelter sit has long been a favorite photo spot, but it lacked close-to-track detail around the back side of the curve. Early this spring I hatched a plan to use the rocks I have been collecting over the last few years. All are harvested from the shores of our man-made lake. The rocks I fish out of the lake are heavy and need more than an earthen base to support them up at track level, so I began buying a few concrete blocks a week ...
    
    Rock Sculpting around Coal Dump Curve
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    I made it back from vacation with about 100GB of video. I think I also spent my vacation budget for the next few years. My first week was at the Kettle Valley Railway in Summerland, BC. The weather wasn't very nice, but I think I was still able to capture some of the beauty of their operation. Shane
    
    Kettle Valley Railway
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    Talk about prototypes here. It's not just trains through the tulips!
    
    After a few months of planning work has finally begun on adding a waterfall and pond feature on the railroad. Heavy lifting started today by moving one large boulder away from a cluster of three in order to open up a section for the pond. A second boulder will also be moved to finish the area. The grand plan is for a waterfall to come off the mountain next to the tunnel and spill over the tracks. Yes, the train will be going behind the waterfall. There will be an ...
    
    Adding water feature on the RC &TR R...
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    Summer is here. Only 181 days till winter, cant wait. Class A Climax (shut up Rooster) from Garden Railways Plans
    
    Summer Photo Thread
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    For Rooster--Pickle Juice
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    Mike Hamer has posted his blog on the first operations session of 2018, Narrow Gauge ruled the day! Most of the old cronies are back and considering all the improvements made this spring everything ran smoothly thanks to Fred and the track gang. By the way Rick you'll see I did get to try out the bib you passed on at Ken's very handy. http://gardenrailroadottawa.blogspot.ca/2018/05/inaugural-train-ops-session-spring-2018.html
    
    IPP&W/RP&M Operations by the OVG...
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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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    Anybody have trouble getting the tank off the Shay? I don’t see a way to remove the trucks but don’t see any screws under them either. The water hatch has a screw below but there is something I’m missing. Neiler
    
    Help Removing Shay Water Tank
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    Hi All, Looking for some help, I need a Lite weight ballast for our new club Modular layout, I don't want to go with real rock because of weight issues, but saw other layouts at the ECLSTS and wondered what they used any info would be of great help. I've been a lurker but coming out of the shadows for this info. Thanks Frank
    
    Modular Layout lite weight ballast
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    Indoor and Micro
    
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    Not all of us have a yard, or want an outdoor empire.
    
    Suleski Transportation received their 2015 Christmas Present today. Yes that's right 2015. We purchased 4 - 50' Gunderson Hi Cube Boxcars when they were to be released in the 1st quarter of 2016. (the AML News web page still touts this) This was ok'd by our chief finacial officer. Today ST #29 an SD-40-2 was photographed bringing them into the yard. Here is a link to a flickr folder -50' Hi Cubes These cars come with AML truck mounted coupler...
    
    AML 50' Gunderson
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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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    I am selling the following. Avoid shipping and pick it up at TrainOps Brass rail code 332 mostly 3 ft and some 5 ft sections $1.00 a foot (you need two rails and ties to make track) odd lengths $.75 ft Code 332 Ties sold with rail only New Aristo European flex or solid 1 ft sections $1 Used Aristo European $0.50 ft Code 250 Ties Accucraft used 1 ft sections .75 ft (likely 1:32 standard gauge tie strips) Sold: 30 Hillman Code 332 Brass rail cla...
    
    Track and Track Parts
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    Okay, First, I am not dead!!! Second, I haven't been online because I have been spending the last 10 days in the woods. I went camping on the North Fork of the Coeur d' Alene River. I sat by a fire, sipped whiskey, and did a lot of fly fishing for cutthroat trout. Had excellent fishing every day; catching many fish and some really very nice sized ones the largest being about 16". Which for July and as high upstream on the river where I was fishing, this is a very good sized fish. Many ...
    
    Camping/Fly Fishing
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Modeling
- - Vic and Sue Thies "Too Much Fun Railroad" includes an area dedicated to the Wizard of Oz/Emerald City that includes Professor Marvel's balloon hanging from a line. Vic asked me if I could animate the balloon to make it rise/return to earth. "Well of course I can!" Hmmm..., Easier said than done only using what is at hand. Without a worm drive motor on hand, I figured that the balloon would need a counterweight, otherwise when it goes up and stops, it would probably ...
    
    New Animation Project for the "Too ...
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    What have you built lately?
    
    I found a 1940's vintage tear drop trailer in the same scale as my Volkswagen rail bus. Now I have to replace the road tires with rail wheels and add a coupler to it and the bus so the bus can tow it down the track. I need small wheels. What's the smallest size wheels I can get, that you guys know about?
    
    Need small wheels.
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    Experimenting with my new airbrush and weathering. I'm using my 0-6-0 which is going to be the neglected work horse for my freight cars. [img]https://farm1.staticflickr.com/915/43448642862_1e4d869443_b.jpg[/img]
    
    Working on weathering
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    Motive Power
    
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    This is my first post so I hope it is the correct place. I am modeling ET&WNC Narrow Gauge. Currently working on a Baldwin 4-6-0 from 1916. While doing research I found a book I wanted called "Blue Ridge Stemwinder: An Illustrated History of the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad and the Linville River Railway". The sellers I found online must think it is a collector's item and want north of $200 for a copy. I finally searched for the publishe...
    
    Narrow Gauge Ten Wheeler
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    Discussion area for reference drawings and information.
    
    This is my first attempt at 3-D printing. Can you tell what this is to be used for?
    
    My First 3-D Print - Can You Tell What i...
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    This last winter I decided to dabble a little in 7/8 scale. I build a four car train and bashed an LGB Porter up to 7/8 scale. I needed some figures. I contacted Shawn Viggiano and asked him where he gets his figures. He recommended James Barnett of Little Plastic People. https://www.etsy.com/shop/LittlePlasticPeople?ref=hdr_shop_menu So I ordered a selection of undecorated figures and went to work. These figures are caricatures, not perfect representatives. I like them a lo...
    
    7/8" scale figures
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    Back in the day in the hood!
    
    Mik's college days ?
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    Annual Build Challenge
    
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    Every year LSC has a build challenge, in memory of a long term member Mik
    
    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
    
    I just received a photo of our 3-3/4 inch scale (on 7-1/2 inch gauge track), newly painted and lettered for her prototype sister. Came out very nice. Painted by the owner Dan O'Brien and lettered by a sign painter who works for Walt Disney Studios. AND yes, that is gold leaf outlining the lettering :)!
    
    Our newly outshopped and painted Porter
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    Other Scales
    
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    For discussion of any other scales. N? 1 1/2"? Sn3?
    
    Had to go to town on Friday, and stopped by the big box hobby and craft store to buy some copper rod for making hand rails. I noticed they had most of their airbrushes and accessories marked down for clearance. I picked up an Iwata Neo airbrush kit. It was originally priced at $239, marked down to $169, and was being cleared out for 50% of the lowest marked price. Paid $85 dollars plus tax for the kit. It came with airbrush, compressor, hose, three bottles of paint and a bottle of cleaner. Spent...
    
    Bought an airbrush
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Power and Sound
- - Over in Europe, MyLocoSound has recently introduced a new low cost soundcard for light industrial diesels. There are lots of that type of loco, mainly on two foot gauge lines, manufactured by Simplex, Ruston Hornsby, Baguley Drewery, Hunslett, Orenstein & Koppel and others. Many of these, plus freelance versions, are available as large scale ready to run or kit models. Most are low cost and hence are very popular and we have been supplying lots of soundcards for them. So it made us wonder i...
    
    Light Industrial Diesels and Gas Locos
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    Does anyone know anything about Revolution DCC? Tom
    
    Revolution
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    Power and Sound
    
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    Hi Everyone: This is my second post and first to the live steam forum. My name is Karl, and together with my wife Jenn, we have been building all the trackwork at Staver Locomotive since taking over for Tim Miller about 5 years ago. For those who don't know, Staver Locomotive is a very large and getting larger live steam railroad in a 16000 sqft restored industrial machine shop in NW Portland, Oregon. We have started on a large scale reworking of the railroad, and Larry (owner) has gi...
    
    Big changes at Staver Locomotive for Spr...
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    I figured I'd start a thread to document my construction techniques for the signals I'm building for my RR. I've always liked signals, but want to integrate them into my operations, both being able to run with and without a dispatcher (since, mostly, Ill be running without). First, a bit of information. Signals, in their basic form, control entry and exit into a block of track. For purposes of my railroad, these blocks will be the sections between sidings on the line. Prototype railroads h...
    
    Signals on the NVRY
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Shows and Conventions
- - It looks like this got lost in the photos from TrainOps 2017, but there was a bunch of noise this year about moving TrainOps forward a month into the middle of July. Looking for opinions. http://www.largescalecentral.com/forums/topic/26582/train-ops-2017/view/post_id/344792
    
    TrainOps 2018
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Vendors and Manufacturers
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- - In the recent past, I have offered to large scale modelers resin castings of Aristocraft Replacement Parts. Some of you have contacted me with an order. The support of the members of this forum and my local buddies is much appreciated. To provide a better quality product, I have recently acquired a second 3D printer ( filament type ) to my production equipment. Along with my SLA type machine that makes UHD small parts, I can now make many out of production replacement parts that could not be mad...
    
    GLX SCALE MODELS - 3D PRINTING
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    Here's link to the video: https://www.cordlessrenovations.com/?page_id=3574 This is a NH FB1 Snow Thrower that was custom built for RCS America and I plan on upgrading the 12V motor to an 18V HRD Hammer Drill motor with two speed settings. We will also upgrade the throttle to the New RailLinx 900 10amp Throttle, so we can hookup a pusher locomotive (if need be) and plug it in directly to a 2-Pin Aristo Plug on the back side of the FB1. The FB1 motor blocks are power separately...
    
    Something I've been working on...
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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
    Last reply by Sean McGillicuddy on August 22, 2016
    
    This is the latest version of the Amercanised Bachmann 1:22.5 Lyn loco. Apart from some cosmetic changes and detail additions, it is the same as the "LYN".Earlier installations featured 14.4 volts of AA size NiMh batteries. They required fitting one 7.2 volt pack in each side tank. For this installation I chose a single Twin Stick 4s1p 1700 mah Li-ion pack which will fit easily in just one side tank. The RH side tank cover is easier to remove than the LH side. Be very careful not t...
    
    Battery R/C and sound in Bachmann 2-4-2t
    Last reply by Peter Lucas on April 11, 2017
    
    I am pleased to announce I am now selling and supporting "The Revolution Train Engineer", in addition to the RailLinx System which is our most reliable battery radio control product on the market from RCS America. With the popularity of the REVO at a lower cost with generic sound I can offer those customers our best in class customer service and install services. For current users of the REVO system who need additional receivers and transmitters we can provide...
    
    Crest Revolution products
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    Am I missing a link to the web site ? It would be nice to have one hear. Sean
    
    Link to web site
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