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Designing my HO scale Wisconsin & Southern

Sun, 2011-11-06 19:58 — Bighurt

Layout design

Little Background

Recently my family and I (expectant wife and 3 kids), lost our home due to a flood of epic proportions. We lost our entire home, however we were able to save much of our possessions. As we rebuild our home of the last 8 years, there are a few things we've changed to improve. To say the least the home 2 bed 1 bath home was built in 1958 and encompassed 780 sq ft above ground. We had a full basement but only 75% was used for human occupancy due to mechanical space. As a contractor and carpenter I had a small shop 399 sq ft th

Web Site for OLD books, Steam Repairs Etc.

Sun, 2011-11-06 02:43 — CarterM999

Found this web site listing many old books from years ago. Including repair and maintenance of steam engines, metal work, machining, foundry and welding, etc. Memories of by gone years of how to.

Thought these may be of interest and helpful.

http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks11/rrshop/index.html

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Capturing a layout before we have to move.

Sun, 2011-11-06 01:11 — Visitor

Layout tour

The US Model Railroad Club of Western Australia has been given notice by our landlord that he won't renew our lease when it next comes up for renewal. So after some 12 years of layout construction we are going to have to move to a new abode.

During this time we've managed to build a large HO layout that almost fully occupies a 30' x 50' industrial unit. Due to the way it was constructed, the layout won't be easily moved so we are going to have to start again in our new location.