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Thank you Art Fahie - Bar Mills

Fri, 2013-12-27 14:00 — JerryRGS

It has been a rough year. Very little model railroading. I had a bad bicycle accident earlier in June that broke several bones. And with my medical and my wife’s medical expenses I have had very little to spend on model railroading. And not being able to work on my kits or my railroad as I recovered has been frustrating.

I had wanted to buy George Sellios’ kit, the Jamestown Water Stop. And I wanted Bar Mills new kit, the Popovich Pipes and Fittings. But I could not afford either one.

Tree line....

Wed, 2013-12-25 10:36 — jappe

Hi all,

well with the Mrs. in Italy visiting her dad who is not doing well, I had to do some thing to not start turning in circles with the Christmas spirit and such.

So I decided to re do some of the tree line. You all might remember this...

but when ever I entered the layout room I was like "pffffffft" not really what I was after when I was doing this tree nursery.

CN Meaford Branch

Tue, 2013-12-24 21:43 — Peter Graham

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Manitowoc 4100 Crawler crane

Tue, 2013-12-24 13:11 — Bernd

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The little brown truck delivered this today.

I ordered it Friday and it arrived today. Talk about fast service. This is a die cast model in 1:50 scale. Close to O scale. At some point in time it will be fully motorized and controlled via radio control.

The cab housing.

An HO scale SD40 next to the crane.

woodland scenics low temp glue gun

Mon, 2013-12-23 12:27 — Roundhousecat

Looking at one of these to use. I have a regular glue gun that I us for various things, but how well do these ones work? Can I use their glue sticks in my regular glue gun? It says on their website that the gun heats to 230 degrees. is this really a difference? Anyone use this product and are you happy with it?

Just wondering.

Thanks.

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Working on the Scenery

Sun, 2013-12-22 17:16 — EGRX

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A quick introduction.

Model railroading took a hiatus for a few decades, until a chance visit to a Florida hobby shop and a purchase of a Athearn USRA 2-8-2 rekindled the hobby. Two false starts and then a small HO scale 2' X 8' freelance shelf switching layout took hold. Thankfully, all those blue box kits followed me through the decades.

The freelance layout grew and filled a small bedroom. Until two years ago I switched my last car on the HO scale and tried my hand at 2-rail O scale. Mostly to attempt hand laying track and turnouts.

Holland Furnace Co.

Sun, 2013-12-22 11:34 — richhard444

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Phase 2:

When I started to kit bash this structure I realized that I wasn't going to be able to get the same top cornice on the new walls as the style on the kit. So I cut the top cornice off the kit walls and added my own. It is made up of two pieces of styrene, the first one added was 3/16" angle, & the second is a piece of .030" x .125" strip glued to that.

The new cornice:

Laser Cut Kits - Comment on Glue

Sat, 2013-12-21 12:23 — mikerhea

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I received my first laser cut kit a few months back and went looking on the web for the best glue to use to assemble it. I found lots of suggestions all with drawbacks I could not live with or very expensive. I decided to strike out on my own and tried a product I was very familiar with for holding all kinds of odd stuff together.

N scale scratch building plans

Wed, 2013-12-18 16:18 — gary60s

Here is a link to all 108 of my "Scratch sketch sets". Each set has assembly sketches, and printable PDF templates to make scratch projects easy. http://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=31109.0 No need to register or join.