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Made a Decision on Operations for My Layout

Fri, 2014-03-21 05:45 — Retired Alex

I decided last year to get back into the model railroading and have spent the winter cleaning out the basement spare room and unpacking/assessing my equipment after 20 years in storage. I had a layout with completed trackwork and some scenery and have been looking it over to ascertain the needs to rewire it for DCC.

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Pikestuff N Scale 2 Door Engine House Track Spacing?

Fri, 2014-03-21 05:23 — Athlon

Does anyone have the track spacing for this kit?

Stock No. 541-8007 
Dimensions: 40 X 80 Scale Feet
 
Image from the Rixproducts web site

Thalys & TGV Hi-speed Rail

Fri, 2014-03-21 02:36 — Rustman

Back in November I traveled from Amsterdam to Paris via the Thalys and TGV hi-speed trains. As an American with limited exposure to passenger rail transport before I started working overseas I had never traveled that way before. It honestly was one of my favorite travel experiences of all time. I finally did a write-up and posted some photographs on my blog here:

http://thehoboproletariat.blogspot.com/2014/03/thalys-tgv-hi-speed-rail....

Please enjoy.

White poles with red tops

Fri, 2014-03-21 01:20 — engineer

I often noticed white poles with a red top, like here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-EdHP7DuKw

See 1:54, on the left side, two of them.

What do they stand for, what are they marking?

 

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Interior Hopper Car Weathering

Thu, 2014-03-20 18:03 — Eric H.
Weathering factory output!
 

A chat list conversation on hopper car interior weathering a couple of months ago inspired me to try a few techniques to reflect the prototype. These processes have been posted on my blog along with several images to illustrate the ideas. It's the lead post on my blog.

HO CF-7 angled cab shell; any road name

Thu, 2014-03-20 17:19 — papasmurf

If I were to obtain same, what would be best non-Athearn chassis to use, giving correct overall length,

wheelbase, truck side frames? Am sure someone, somewhere has done this. Open to suggestions. Thank

You in Advance. TTFN.....Old Tom in NH

Train Orders and wait times to OS

Thu, 2014-03-20 13:23 — rsn48

On one particular layout using timetable and train orders, I have found the ops session can get bogged down in train orders.  With train orders delivered by the dispatcher and received by the agent operator, then repeated back by each operator involved in the order (and written), engineers are waiting around with trains that can depart but don't have clearance, and even the task of OS'ing can be problematic if the train order process is long and involved.

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First Operating Session

Thu, 2014-03-20 10:29 — Ancient Modeler

I just completed the first operating session on my exhibition layout, and I posted about the experience on my personal blog at: 

http://coloradosouthern.blogspot.com/

Enjoy if you visit!

Darel

 

Bachrus speed matching?

Thu, 2014-03-20 10:04 — chesticus

I remember an article where they used one of these speedometers to help speed match trains. I now see they have one for decoder pro. I can see where it would speed up the process. Has anyone eve used this method before?

Jim Lowery


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