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Carl Arendt's Small Layout Scrapbook down

Sat, 2016-06-25 13:17 — Brandon F

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Does anyone know how long the Small Layout Scrapbook site has been down? I was on it a week or two ago but it now shows that the website is no longer there. I hope that it's just a temporary thing as it's one of my favorite modelling sites.

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Latest video - Layout Update #3

Sat, 2016-06-25 06:57 — Joey_Ricard

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I thought some might enjoy our latest video! Layout Progress Update #3

In this one we go over some of the on-layout equipment we will use including track, turnouts, controls and we touch on scene development.

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Weekly Photo Fun - June 24th to June 30th, 2016

Fri, 2016-06-24 11:31 — fernpoint

Its time for this week's photo thread and as always, anything goes.

I haven't hijacked the WPF start up for a while - sorry Andrew, I'm in a frivolous mood today

Rob Clark

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Is it just me, or is anybody else having problems searching on the new Walthers site? UPDATE 7/20 - THEY FIXED IT

Thu, 2016-06-23 11:59 — rickwade

**UPDATE 7-20-16 Walthers fixed the problem. Thanks to Tom O. for letting us know.

** UPDATE 6-23-16 Walthers answered my email about their site. Please see the answer later in this thread.

I just went on the Walthers site to search for something and find the new interface not user friendly at all! I'm looking for a "truck scale" and can't find a thing. Here's an example of what I'm hoping to find:

A blast from the past - vintage TV commerical with some model trains.

Thu, 2016-06-23 11:13 — rickwade

Man, it brings back some great memories!

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Ship It On The Frisco!

Tue, 2016-06-21 04:32 — arbe

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This showed up this AM on a Route 66 blog I follow:

http://www.route66news.com/2016/06/21/ship-it-on-the-frisco/

I thought it was fun to share.

Bob Bochenek

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Duplicate Post Do Not Use

Tue, 2016-06-21 04:01 — OKGraeme

As we seemed to have more interest in the last 2 weeks I have decided to continue this forum. I will try not to miss a week in the future! So its:-

Time again for a prototype photograph.

When you post please try and include the following:-

Railroad

Location

Date

Description of scene

If not your photo then please make sure it is open licensed and credit photographer or source if known

Graeme

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Prototype Weekly Photo Fun June 20 2016 to June 26 2016

Tue, 2016-06-21 03:51 — OKGraeme

Well there seemed to be more interest in this blog last time so once again it is time again for a prototype photograph.

Sorry I missed a week but I will try and keep on schedule in the future.

When you post please try and include the following:-

Railroad

Location

Date

Description of scene

If not your photo then please make sure it is open licensed and credit photographer or source if known

Graeme

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Operation

Mon, 2016-06-20 14:13 — Jim Six

Not All of Us Operate in the Same Way

I have liked to operate on a model railroad most of my life. Unfortunately, for three decades I did not have a layout on which to operate. So, I operated from time to time on other folk's layouts. What I learned is that most people with a reasonable size layout operate their layouts as a somewhat large section of a railroad. They pride themselves on how many trains they can get over the road in a evening or day or operation. I learned that I never felt enough realism when operating in this way.