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Online Magazine for O scale
Here is magazine for O scale I found. I like as I'm in O scale, what do you think of it? http://oscaleresource.com/
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Tracks down the middle of the street
Anyone ever experimented with putting tracks down the middle of the street? I'm not talking about streetcar or trolley. I'm talking about an industrial area with warehouses on one or both sides. Running freight trains down the street. If so please share your experience, your ideas and most of all your pictures!
New coal cars
Ok, so I acquired 13 new RTR coal cars yesterday from a major vendor. These are 34' 50 ton cars.
I expected McHenry couplers, and am 9/13 done switching them out for Kadees. They came with metal wheels, good.
The cars seem light to me, but I was going to add weight anyway, so no biggie.
Pembroke II - Test Switch
It's become fashionable to call the throw bar of a switch by its proper name: switch rod. Now, I'm all for using the correct terminology, but it seems to me that calling the giant chunk of PC board that keeps model switch points the correct distance apart gives these abominations more credit than they deserve. If, on the other hand, we call it a throw bar, and conceal it somehow, we give ourselves an opportunity to create a nice model of the switch rods themselves.
What's the lowdown on Walther's Trainline?
I see lots of these engines for sale. How do they stack up against other locos, and what would be considered an equivalent engine from another manufacturer in terms of detail & running quality?
Cornhill & Atherton Turntable Test
To be honest, this is as more a test of me taking a video and uploading it to YouTube..........
However, the turntable works with zero wobble which I am very pleased with, having spent an age building to tight tolerances and doing a lot of adjustment.
Need to work on camera focus but everyone has to start somewhere 
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