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Weekly Photo Fun - Aug 18-24, 2019

Sun, 2019-08-18 07:37 — JC Shall

It's another week . . . post 'em if you got 'em.

-Jack

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Railfanning Tabooma County

Thu, 2019-08-15 16:18 — NeilEr

I had a chance to visit Al Carter and his beautiful home in my hometown. He has a dedicated bonus room upstairs for his Tabooma County Railroad where structures and scale vehicles are the star characters. The layout is in a decent size room of about 12’ x 20’, clearly designed for operation and has a lot going on. The photos tell the rest of the story!

Neil Erickson

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New plan and future for my Maclau River

Thu, 2019-08-15 14:30 — Marc

As some of you know, I move to Canada in the coming days.

I left Europe for ever an really with no regrets.

I have the chance and the possibilities to bring my layout with me; thanks again dad to push me to build the layout in modules; this was 45 years ago !

This is probably the first layout build in Belgium which go through the Atlantic and will have the Golden Spike ceremony done in Canada.

He left Europe in the begining of september in a big container to reach Montreal a bit later.

Best Light/Magnifier for work bench

Wed, 2019-08-14 21:14 — eastwind

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What do you use for light/magnification? The temporary workbench I have has terrible light - florescent can lights way overhead that cast shadows more effectively than they help me see. I need something like one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/SE-Illuminated-Dual-Flip-Magnifier/dp/B003UCODIA/ref=zg_bs_2236129011_6?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=6B0FCCJ9SRXAS31PCX9Q

Trains and Tariffs

Wed, 2019-08-14 09:20 — NCR-Boomer

It would seem that scale modelers have been given a reprieve from the trade war. An email I received from Broadway Limited told of their MSRPs being rolled back to pre-July status, when barely a week ago they had jacked those same prices to cover the "Last 10% tariff" announced earlier.

We live in fun times. I'm watching my retirement accounts going straight into the crapper, courtesy of CNBC's barking heads coverage...

So when is the "golden spike ceremony"?

Mon, 2019-08-12 05:46 — Michael T.

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Another thread got me thinking about this and looking back at when I started my current pike and when it's "finished". Of course we all know that a layout is never really finished but my question is this...

Does one have the proverbial "golden spike ceremony" when all the track is down and wired or when there's a basic scenery coat down everywhere or what? I would think once all track is in since the real railroads don't have to "build" scenery but what say the forum?

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Shack and Outhouse

Mon, 2019-08-12 04:09 — rickwade

I happened across this shack and outhouse that I had on my previous layout and just placed them on the layout for the picture. Now I need to decide where they should reside.