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The Brandywine & Benedictine Railroad - Suwanee, GA

This is the fourth layout I operated on at Dixie Rails.  It is a great example of a well planned layout and a great craftsman.  The B & B is in two parts very good investment in time to watch both, many great ideas. You will have to open post to see second link to part II.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9W-9N6pcCA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9W-9N6pcCA

 

 

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The Diamond River Valley Railroad- Lawrenceville, GA

The is another of the great model railroads of the Dixie Rails group.  Great operations and layout design.  Built switches in place buy printing Fast Track diagrams and gluing them into place and building on top of them. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-rD8QNPew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-rD8QNPew  this link is for the Kindle users as I have found out.

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Trainmasters Hobby Shop and N S mainline

Great Hobby Shop and video with two NS trains. One at start one at end. What a location for a model train store!!!!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plcp&v=q-G_XeYIyiM

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THE SAINT LOUIS GATEWAY N GAUGE RAILROAD

This N Gauge Layout is part of Dixie Rails in the Atlanta GA area. This is the best running N gauge layout I have ever operated on.  It is DCC and not once the whole night that we ran 50 trains did we have one problem due to track of electrical connections.  The owner John Wilson has come up with a system of moving blocks of cars with markers on top that are easy to read for all of us who do not see numbers on N scale cars well.
http://m.youtube.com/?reload=3&rdm=mc3h053tl#/watch?feature=m-ch-vid&v=l...

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NORFOLK & WESTERN RR, NORCROSS, GA.

This Model RR is part of a group in the Atlanta area called Dixie Rails. This video was taken during a operations event attended by 50 operators from around the country. This RR will be part of the NMRA national convention in Atlanta July 2013. I will post video of three more outstanding layouts.
http://m.youtube.com/?reload=3&rdm=mc3h057ml#/watch?feature=m-ch-vid&v=U...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0WWvWv8JYk&feature=plcp

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TWO DOWN AND COUNTING

The GRANDE PACIFIC MODEL RR has seen its second eye of a hurricane. Isaac made it very slow pass on Wed morning. I am happy to say this time their was no damage. Gustave in 2008 took all of the new shingles off of roof. This is just another one of those things you have to plan for when building a place for your railroad. Building has now been hit by 125 mph winds. Isaac beat on us for over seven hours with winds of 60 to 70 mph gust. Visit www.grandepacificmodelrr.org and you will see the construction pictures of the building.

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Sue Lines Many Great Pictures Added By Readers OF MRH

Readers of MRH have visited the Sue Lines and posted many of their great pictures. I attached link to location. Newest pictures are on page two of comments.
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/8804?page=1
Enjoy

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1999 Eastern Div Grande Pacific. HO Modular Layout

This 8 X 36 ft layout made appearance at NMRA national in 2000. I donated it to The Greater Baton Rouge Model RR Club. It now has a perment home and new operators.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7-Ju5XxJfc

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2 Rail O Modular Layout That Stands the Test Of Time

This layout is more than 20 years old and has seen many shows and homes over the years.  It now has a permeate home.  Please notice the detail. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6ttIfLpKaU

  

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GRANDE PACIFIC CONVERTS TO JMRI OPERATIONS

On Sat the GP held its first op ses using JMRI = Operations program for train and car movement.  I now have a dispatcher's panel using layout editor and the operations program in full use.  Will next work to tie them together so I can run op Sec LIVE in operations.  This means as the trains go across the layout and leaves a town the cars scheduled to be left and picked up will be automatically released for use by another train.


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