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Layout photos

Fri, 2012-12-21 18:18 — wilkenw

I've attached a few mobile phone photos of my in-progress 25x25 freelanced dogbone layout, inspired by the New York Central Railroad as it existed in the Mid-Hudson Valley in the late 1940's and early 1950's.   I hope to have a "rough draft" completed by spring, then will begin detailing and adding a helix to a lower-level staging yard.

The Century at Barrytown

Track Work, Geometry Class

Fri, 2012-12-21 10:30 — peteralieber

Man, I am glad I took geometry! 

This is a snippet of the track planning guide for Marklin C-track. I really like this track and the geometry constraints may limit design, but hey, it also limits design!  Meaning, less time to deliberate, as I am very indecisive!

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Helium Building

Thu, 2012-12-20 16:06 — don_csx

Here is a helium storage building built out of 2 AHM helium cars. Pretty simple to build.

 

 

Street Car Lines

Thu, 2012-12-20 14:07 — jrschmidt

I'm working on a downtown scene for our club layout and would like to have a street car line included in the scene. It has been suggested that I use a silver tape to represent the rails of the street car line; this seems quite lame. I would like to have actual rails imbedded in the street pavement (will be made of styrene). I seem to have seen a system for accomplishing this and to make the street car line operational as well. Does anyone have suggestions?

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Prestage Tool & Gear Hawk Point Mo.

Thu, 2012-12-20 12:41 — Tomkat

Here is another Suydam Kitbash.

Using gap filling Super Glue on a metal Building.

 

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What is this? Steam loco detail

Thu, 2012-12-20 10:06 — DKRickman

I managed to get some scans from medium format negatives, and (as expected) they answered some questions and brought up new ones.  For example, I found this detail on the stack of D&W #24:

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Progress on the WP&GNMRR

Thu, 2012-12-20 01:53 — Phillip Cossar

Its been about a month since my last post so I thought it was time for an update, the coal mine and west end of the yard is essentially finished it just needs some more details added.

 

 

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Gatorfoam and Model Railroading

Wed, 2012-12-19 19:03 — tyndalljohn6

My latest project with Gatorfoam® was to build a 21” wide by 8 foot long extension L to my N Scale Mooers Junction Railroad. I have put together an article showing the construction techniques I used.

This post is just the latest advantage I wanted to put out there about the benefits of using lightweight Gatorfoam®. My friend Jeff and I spent about six hours adding eight (8) tortoise machines, five (5) homemade turnout direction indicators and a switch controlling the USB camera that show hidden staging.

Help for Rivarossi parts

Wed, 2012-12-19 13:04 — txdieseldog

Need help. Trying to locate parts for an older Rivarossi PennRR GG-1. The center hub on one of the drive axle wheels has broken in storage. I have noticed that Rivarossi has new ownership. I need to know where to turn. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks

BBond


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