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Storing styrene strips

Thu, 2016-09-01 09:20 — roadglide

Hello folks. I was reading today about a neat idea for easily storing sheet styrene using expandable pocket file folders like you see in offices and that would work great for sheets. But does anyone have any tricks for storing and organizing strip styrene? I can't install pegboard or hang anything from my walls so it has to be something that can sit on my work bench. Or somehow be attached to my workbench out of the way.

Suggestions?

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How to Model Newspapers for your Layout

Wed, 2016-08-31 23:44 — kathymillatt
This week's video is on how to add scale newspapers to your layout. It's another layer of detail:

Issue with New Loco

Wed, 2016-08-31 22:46 — hobbes1310

Just got a loco dropped off. Ordered online from the USA. My very first sound unit. So was pretty happy to unbox it and hear. But Issue with it.

On the photo below. The front truck is angled up. Is this fixable?. Hopefully it is. Does anyone have any suggestions. Since I have never tinkered under the hood of my locos before. I really hope I don't have to send it back to the States. Or would it be better to inform, said hobby shop, that  I bought it from.

Laying ME Flex?

Wed, 2016-08-31 20:23 — siskiyou

OK

    I just ran into a video by MRH on YouTube demonstrating the laying of ME Flex Track. While the directions ar good, I would like to bring up something that I do while laying this sometimes "stubborn" track.

    While we can go into many different ways to align a curve, eventually we will have to run equipment on that track we just put down, and the cars will always tell us what a great job we did- or tell us we were sleeping at the switch when we should have been aligning that curve!

Kitbashed grain car (a blast from the past)

Wed, 2016-08-31 17:28 — mesimpson

While digging through my ample stockpile of freight equipment in Rubbermaid containers I dug out something I had almost forgotten about.  In the late 1980's about the only cylindrical hopper car available was the Model Power car that was a tad... unprototypical.  Bachmann released a cylindrical car that was better than the Model Power car, but not correct for the Canadian style car.  

Weight placement

Wed, 2016-08-31 08:18 — cp5170

I read with great interest the thread on weighting/over-weighting rolling stock   It has raise 2 questions in my mind.  Firstly, where do you place the added weight e.g. over the trucks; in the centre; evenly distributed?

The second question is for the over-weighting group.  Do you use a percentage increase of the NMRA standard or have you established your own standard?

Thanks for sharing...Ken

Grain Loads and Boxcars

Wed, 2016-08-31 07:24 — sanchomurphy

Hi everyone,

I was curious as to how you simulate grain loads, namely corn or wheat in HO scale? I am seeking to detail boxcars for grain loading and would like to show loads in cars with operable doors. I am also looking at how to create grain doors in both paper and board forms, prototype and model photos would be greatly appreciated.

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Small yard on a Branchline

Wed, 2016-08-31 02:27 — upsmuggler

I need ideas for a track plan of a small yard on a branch line.

Building the "I cant think of a name yet"

Wed, 2016-08-31 00:58 — stevie

The last couple days I put in another 20 feet of benchwork. Another 10 will go in tomorrow. I am building it with "L" girder construction. Its just what I know and its is pretty easy to move or adjust cross members as the need arises. I also put the roadbed in the waterfront area that connects the lower and upper levels. My roadbed is either 1/2 homasote on 1/2 plywood or 2 pieces of 1/2 plywood sandwiched. On top of that is regular midwest cork. I learned about using caulk in these pages. I like that better than glue. And it holds the cork and the track just fine.


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