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Prototype Weekly Photo Fun May 16 2016 to May 22 2016
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

A good friend visits the Richlawn Railroad
No, it wasn't Michael Rose! Mr. Howard Yawn and his wife Linda visited us today as they were in the area delivering a custom built model railroad to a customer in Ocala. Howard is the owner of LBH Custom Model Railroads and very early on did the redesign of the H.O.G (Heart of Georgia) layout designed by Scott Perry. Howard did a great job of resizing / right sizing the plan for my layout room.
Question about Testors cement
For many years I have been using the Testors glue in the blue tube for assembling styrene kits. Recently I have been working on some styrene kits and the glue only seems to glue the parts together. It does not seem to fuse the plastic like it use to. I bought a tube of the red glue and it seems to do the same. The only difference is that the glue in the red tube dries faster.
Has the formulation of Testors glue changed within the last year?
Looking for a Lehigh Valley Green Paint
I am looking for a source of LV green paint used on their gondolas
Jerry Hampton
Weekly Photo Fun - May 20th to June 2nd, 2016
Incredible work everyone last week thanks to all! 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!
Andrew

This takes the cake!
Or should I say that I took the cake - Michael's Rose's wife's delicious apple cake that I had yesterday during a visit. Michael and I were so involved with model railroading that the time flew by and my return train (Sunrail) was waiting when he dropped me off at the station! Sorry, I only took one picture; however, I can say that Michael's structures (and layout) look even better in person!

Prototype Weekly Photo Fun May 16 2016 to May 22 2016
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

Slim Gauge Guild Open House 6/5 & 6/7
The Slim Gauge Guild Model RR Club would like to invite you to their open house Sunday June 5th from 10am to 6pm and Tuesday June 7th from 6pm to 10pm.

I'm doing a Clinic
So I decided I really wanted to try doing something at this years NMRA convention. After bouncing ideas around in my head I thought why not go and do it on the youth in the hobby. This was a great idea for two reasons. 1. I am a youth and 2. It is always a controversial and popular topic. I am thinking of basing it around what I have done and the youth I have seen in the hobby. Along with some of my cheapo solutions to common or usually found problems.

Help Needed: Looking for online website of old photos and maps of the past
In one of these threads I thought there was a website mentioned that is an archive of old photos and maps of various cities/towns in the past. I'm looking for as much information as I can on two of them right now, Meadville, PA and Franklin, PA. I'm trying to determine which railroads actually were in the vicinity of both of those locations, and hopefully the actual track locations can be determined as well. As I recall they were B&W photos mostly, and I think they were sanborn maps, but i'm not sure.
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