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Layout Concept Drawing

 

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Super Saw (an idea based on a store clerk's lack of knowledge)

 

The frustrating part of my day...

Earlier this evening I called a local, (Canadian) national, hardware store with with what I thought was very a simple question.  "Could you, please, check the X-acto cabinet for me and tell me if you have any #215 saw blades."

A middle school model railroad

I'm a middle school math teacher. This last year I began to use model railroading as a vehicle for engaging my students with fun, interesting and educational activities that have vivid connections to meaningful real-world themes. 

Static Grass

I built one of the static grass applicators using a Harbor Freight bug zapper as explained in MRH. The electrical charge is going through because I got "zapped" but the Kibri grass I am using won't stand up. My question, "Is the static grass used by the Noch and other static charge devices made of a material specific to this application?"

I'm wondering if the Kibri grass I am using, which is 25+ years old, is made of a non-static material.

Motor conversion

Hey guys!

I can't seem to find a lot of info about motor conversions....

My question is.

What size are the shafts on the athearn hex flywheels, for the life of me i cant find any info on the size, not even on athearns site. The motor i have is a Kato HM5 so that has a 2mm shaft.

Thanks
Nick.

Single Stall Engine House Part 10

So this weekend I did the roofing, was a bit tedious, but in the end it came out good and I’m pleased so far.

First image is a sheet of corrugated roofing marked out with an ultra fine sharpie. the point of the sharpie fits well in the grooves. If you find your cut point ends up on a hump instead of a groove, flip it over and you’ll be in the groove. No pun intended. Lol

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Cleveland 2014 - Somerset Power Plant working rotary car dump interview

I was fortunate to be able to interview Doug Nagel, who created a series of modules replicating the Somerset Power Plant and it's rotary car dump including scratchbuilt rotary couplers.

 

 

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Cleveland 2014 - Saturday, Day 2 of the National Train Show - TCS Interview

Someone asked about what was new in the area of DCC sound. We're going to have a first look of the SoundTraxx Soundcar system coming up in a future issue, and I was able to interview Norm Stenzel of TCS regarding their upcoming (now in Beta) WOW Diesel sound decoder -


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