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- - tornado touches down in ottawa and gatineau Just talked to Fred on the phone. He said the Ops session is still on. It missed him a Bill Scobie, who lives in Gatineau, but a lot of homes were damaged. Phone works but the powers out.
    
    Tornado touches down in Ottawa and Gatin...
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    I had posted this previously on GRW forum and changed a few thing at Greg E suggestions and though I would repost it here: While out scrounging for old track I came across this piece that use to be on my LGB 4' bridge and I thought this might be interesting to those new into the hobby for added detail to their layout. Rerailers properly called guards rails, on both bridges and trestles were very common on the original days of railroading where jumping the track could ha...
    
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    I am planning a water feature, and the stream needs to cross two paths. Any ideas for how to make this attractive?
    
    Stream crossing path
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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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    On Saturday, my In-ko-pah Railroad was host to several visitors, as part of a regional layout tour held by the San Diego Division of the National Model Railroad Association. I shot the event using time-lapse photography. Music by Eric Matyas www.soundimage.org [url]https://youtu.be/iHXdhL85-r0[/url] Enjoy! .
    
    In-ko-pah RR: Time-Lapse video
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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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    Into more than running your trains around the patio? Discuss here!
    
    So, it's time to bring this one back to the top - especially since it has a great new sponsor! Bring out your questions! Or, more inappropriately...
    
    What's old is new again!
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    After finally getting the rest of the walls in the basement drywalled, and Jane got the sky painted, I started with building more tables for the inside layout... The top portion will be completed later, but the lower portion is the Bluefield freight yard for Operations sessions.. Below is a shot from the liftout bridge that starts the freight yard on the lower level that runs past the island area, and then along the north basement wall.. The below picture ...
    
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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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    t Well since I began collecting parts and pieces and since I has some un wanted spare time I started for actual building of the walls to support my railroad. Work began on or about the week of the 1st of August, and since this is Arizona, progress is slow and not even steady. Summer in AZ is wicked hot in June and half of July , then we get our so called Monsoon season, still wicked hot 110* plus days with a chance of a large Thunderstorm, with big wind, dust and sometimes hail, which lea...
    
    Build Log, Babs River Railway
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    I'm doing fine (REALLY!!! ), but as I look at all the locomotives that I have, I find I only run a few as my favorites. So, maybe MY non-favorites can be your new favorite? (I sure hope so!) Anyway, I think I need to get rid of some I never run - and maybe help somebody out? I do NOT desire to ship these, so... maybe pickup in Illinois (I'll be in Nashville in October), or at the ECLSTS, or TrainOps in Massachusetts - next July? The ...
    
    Thinning the Herd
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    Happy New Year as 2018 begins. The Kaskaskia Valley Railway crew finds their bunkhouse in Dundee, Florida at the tracks of the Ridge Live Steamers. Our plans are to be here through most of March and enjoy the events of the 7.5 gauge, 1.5 inch scale railroad world. Jan works on her quilts and the landscaping of the railroad property. Vegetation is something that is a continuous battle in the sub-tropics of Florida. Stuff really grows! The Ridge Live Steamers si...
    
    Jan and Ric's Great Adventure - 2018
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- - On the Durango & Jasper we have a gold mine. It is inspired by this 1980's HO layout by John Olsen: So far we have the 2 level trestle roughly in place. Here's a shot after the initial install of lighting within the mine entrance: It seems like this mine needs a lot of details. I'm starting by adding a rock building to store dynamite, to be placed at the far left side of the above photo on a rock ledge. There will be wooden steps leading up to it from th...
    
    Rock dynamite storage house build
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    Making this thread to document my Goose #5. I've been wanting one for ages, and finally I got one from Don Howard last month. This weekend I started the battery/RC/sound conversion. I have opened the back box, removed the stove, and the circuit for the track wiring. That gives me a good amount of space inside, in a place thats not obvious given the side windows. I have installed the Revolution receiver, and I know where the battery is going to live. I am waiti...
    
    My Goose #5
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    Rolling stock
    
    I finally dusted off an Aristo Dash 9 that I bought from a club member some 12 years ago, ran once, and put on the shelf as a future project. Well, the future is now. I took it out the shelf, dusted it off, gave it a battery and a REVO II, put it on the track, and wouldn't you know it, it stumbles every ten feet or so. All my other Aristo and USAT locomotives run nicely along the mainline, but this one is recalcitrant (look it up, Rooster). I know, take ...
    
    I know, I know, check the btb.
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    I was wondering if any of you graphics people out there can identify the fonts used on the tender and locomotive. It would be easier for me if I could just print out what I want, instead of having to draw it up. Thanks
    
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    Hey friends, This will be the continuation of my H&N mine model build, covered here: Hale & Norcross Mine Model The model's main structure was completed in January, but it lacked the final touch: a trestle coming out of the doors over the ore bin, which took the waste rock to the dump piles on the other side of the V&T track. In my 1/3/18 post on the original thread, I mentioned that this trestle project would be strange in a fun way, because site research w...
    
    Hale & Norcross Dump Trestles
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    Just messing around yesterday afternoon and made this . Took one of my figures and manipulated it while it was still curing. Found plans on the web for a casket.
    
    RIP
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    OK, Having been shamed into giving this a shot by you people and my primary partner, Oldest Daughter, I will take a crack at this challenge. First, I had to find a location. Pu'u'oma'o is ostensibly where the plantation railways meet the Triple O to deliver sugar and other agricultural products for onward travel to the piers at Haluku'ilio and export abroad. At least it is in my imagination...Here is the site for this future repurposed 2x4: The Triple O is only in its third...
    
    Miks 2018 -- Pu'uomao Yard Office and (M...
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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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    In previous posts, I showed the building of a point to point 7-1/2 inch gauge track around my house. Those track panels are completed and ready to lay (this is a portable track and no different than a "G" layout using "snap-track"....although a "little" larger). To help in the loading/unloading of engines and rolling stock onto the track, I have a "lifting rack". This rack goes all the way down to "ground level". I have contemplated either buying a RTR turnout in this gauge or get...
    
    7.5 inch Gauge Number 5 Turnout Build
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    I have a house that is over 100 years old, and in the past got a load of cedar channel siding that was reclaimed from a similar house. Many of the pieces were only 1-2 feet long, so not very useful for repairs, but very useful for model bridge building (and other scale lumber use) because it is all old-growth cedar as shown in Photo 1. It is very likely that you can find a recycled building material company in your area where you can obtain old cedar or redwood. I did quite a ...
    
    Processing Reclaimed Wood
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Power and Sound
- - The motor block on the Delton Doozy (and my Hartland) is "self-contained" in that when the block receives power, the motor runs and power is available at the external terminals to tie in the front axle. I want to isolate the motor from the contacts so that I can shut it off/delay its start when the track receives power. Has anyone been able to open one of these blocks and make this modification and if so, what did you do? Thanks
    
    Isolating the Motor Pick-ups in a Delton...
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    I saw this on Facebook, thought I'd pass it along here for those who want/need lots of power for their DCC lines. DCC booster, 24 volts, 30 amps. http://www.md-electronics.de/de/mxion_control.html Hadn't seen this before, so I thought I'd pass it along. Later, K
    
    "'More power,' ya say, cap'n?"
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    At the garden railway show this weekend at the W&L light railway in Wales, Roundhouse announced a new Basic series engine, an nice little 0-4-2 with tender. I see loads of potential for those into logging and mining to weather and customize this model. Lots of engine for the price, and with the logistical back up that is second to none. I plan to order one in the Oxford blue to match my Bertie, along with thier Walschearts valve gear kit(which I put on a Sammie a few years ...
    
    New Roundhouse Basic Series engine annou...
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    My supplier of LEDs to light my little town buildings suggested I get other opinions for landscape lighting transformers other than Malibu. They said they can surge and are basically not a first choice. However, they did not volunteer a secondary choice. I only mention Malibu because I have a few lying around and thought it good to put them to use. But if it means the possibility of blowing my whole lighting system I'm more than happy to consider a tried and true. So I a...
    
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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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- - 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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    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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    This is for those users of digital proportional R/C who have had problems finding reasonably priced R/C switches. R/C switches are designed to use spare channels on any brand of stick radios and RCS R/C equipment for sound triggers and switching motors ON - OFF, both in Live Steam and Battery R/C.Whilst Centre OFF proportional ESC's are very low priced very few of them have sound trigger functions and/or directional constant brightness lighting outputs. RCS is now selling a range of such ...
    
    R/C Switches.
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    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...
    
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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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