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Help Identify This 0-6-0T Locomotive

Moose picked up this wee beastie, an HO scale 0-6-0T that Moose no find manufacturer or part number listed. Weighs a tonne!

Appears to be a Porter based on some photos Moose find online, but none quite match up...

Does anyone know anything about this locomotive, model or its intended prototype?

Attended the Monroe swap meet

I went to Monroe WA. today for a model railroad swap meet. They had three bldgs at the fairgrounds full of layouts and a lot of vendors. Crowd was large and one gent commented it was the largest crowd he has seen in awhile. Aisles were crowded and I think I made three walk throughs of the two largest bldgs.

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Dremel Micro motor tool

I am attempting to use Bruce Petrarca's technique of making many #70 holes in a plastic tender coal load to let the sound of a speaker out. My "Dremel" isn't  a real Dremel. It's a Canadian Tire brand. I tried to use it with the #70 bit but even at its lowest setting it was much too fast. I have no idea what the speed setting is however. I am looking at the variable speed Dremel Micro. The manual says that its lowest speed is 5000 rpm. Will this be slow enough to drill with the #70 bit?

Day tripping steam in the modern era

Well, this is rather more nerve-wracking than I thought it would be; posting the very early sketches of a chainsaw layout I'm considering at the moment.

What you see below represents the culmination of several weeks of sketching ideas and changing many things around and I feel quite close to what I'm aiming for now. My inspiration and reasoning for this layout is as follows:

home grown trees

The primary area I am modeling is southwest washington. It rains over 100 inches a year. I looked up Naselle and they get 114. The coast is pretty much a rainforest and so it is very green. Trees grow tall and the undergrowth can be impenetrable. So I am going to need a whole lot of trees. I will need both evergreen and deciduous trees. I also bookmarked a couple videos making evergreens from furnace filter. Some methods are better than others, even with the same material. 

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Continuous running on a point-to-point branch line!

Since my HO branch line layout is point-to-point, this slick module built by Iowa Scaled Engineering (iascaled.com) will allow me to run a train back and forth independent from my DCC system. This is very handy because I’ll be able to run a train while I’m working on the layout or to break in a new locomotive. Forgive me for the rough looking test setup.

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Weekly Photo Fun February 26 to March 3, 2016

Great work everyone last week!  Time to start of this week's photo thread!

As always, we get as much out of your in-process photos as we do the highly polished "all done" shots!

O gauge layout update February 26 2016

future projects, Conway yard office and more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MdlZoTY2IQ

N scale flume

So ive setteled on N scale a Free Mo style module. I want just one major feature for each module. On this first module a log flume, rickety, leaky and rather steep. Water falling from joints puddles on the ground. I will plan the flume work as if it was track work and build with woodland scenic risers and inclines

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Crossing Signals

Need some help wiring two sets of crossing signals (no gates - just flashers) with three wires coming out of the base. No markings as to manufacturer - they came out of a donation box at the club. Several questions:

A. How do I make them work in conjunction with an approaching train?

B. Can anyone supply me with a simplified wiring diagram?

C. Do they require any type of resistor? - Am pretty sure they are not DCC nor LED.

D. Can the two signals at the same crossing be wired together or should they be wired to DC Accessory Power separately?


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