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Looking for places for trainspotting/railfanning-NE Florida
I'm looking for a place to watch trains somewhere along Florida's east coast between Daytona and Jacksonville. It needs to be a place that you don't have to travel in groups for safety, at least by day. Now that there's nowhere for hundreds of miles to see steam, I'll have to adapt to diesels...
Floquil/Polly Scale Discontinued!!!
I am still trying to pick myself up off the floor...but this is terrible news for us model railroad folks!
Overhauling Locomotives
Just over 2 years ago, my home was involved in a fire. The train room was not burned, and the insurance company compensated me generously for smoke and soot damage to the train room. I was able to recover many of the structures with Simple Green and De-Solv-It, but now that I am in the process of constructing a new layout, I find that only 2 or 3 of 27 locomotives will still run. I can't find any information on the internet about overhauling a smoke-damaged locomotive. I would even consider taking or mailing some of them to a repair shop. Any suggestions?
Radius curves: doubt!
Condemned by spaces very limited (only 1,65 mt for the narrow side), I had to adapt my new layout in HO scale. My new project has been made up mostly to be photographed and make it appear as real as possible, but when I took this latest photo that I show you now (here below), I had a terrible doubt: the curve with a radius of 24" of Atlas Code 83 is too small to be real? And is small even for a branchline as this?
I made a big mistake?
Tell your opinions. Thank you in advance.
Puget Sound Model Railroad Engineers
In addition to the four Washington railroads Union Pacific,Milwaukee Road,Great Northern,and Northern Pacific, Does Puget Sound also runs non-Washington railroads as well.
Electromagnetic uncoupling ramp placement trackplanning question
I am building some modules to operate with a club's portable layout. Most of the members enjoy running trains on the mainline, while I am planning modules for operational switching using Kadee couplers.
I plan for tall mountainous scenery to create more visual interest, but that makes manual uncoupling "impossible".
I have used XtrkCad to both develop and "proof" my trackplan for running trains.
My questions are:
Cadillac Motors plant
This is a view of the Cadillac Motors plant from the railroad spurs that served it. Looks like an ideal background structure:
http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/544161_449774958440144_668...
Jose.
Weekend Photo Fun 5-17 to 5-20
Post photo's of your model railroad or railroad related projects here.
Upcoming Train Shows
Since I do most of my Train shopping at shows i thought I would share our upcoming show with you. It will be in Tallahassee Fl. And if you are in Georgia, Alabama or Florida you will like this show.
https://www.facebook.com/BBMRA/events
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