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Modern Day Critter

Sun, 2014-04-06 17:51 — Bernd

Ok, who's going to be the first to build one of these modern day critters for there layout?

http://members.shaw.ca/tractivepower/index.html

I think my On30 Critters just met their death knell.

The drive train. A DD40 four axle truck was used under the shell. So I'll make a four axle modern critter in HO this time.

Depot Days coming to Cheyenne May 18th and 19th

Sat, 2014-04-05 16:03 — Chuck Geiger

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Check out the flyer on my blog for all the action in Cheyenne in May: http://cheyrails.blogspot.com

Depot Days coming to Cheyenne May 18th and 19th

Sat, 2014-04-05 16:03 — Chuck Geiger

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Check out the flyer on my blog for all the action in Cheyenne in May: http://cheyrails.blogspot.com/

Chuck Geiger's blog

platform height?

Sat, 2014-04-05 03:03 — redP

What was the standard station platform height? Its difficult to tell by photos.

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Railroad Prototype Modelers - Valley Forge, March 2014

Fri, 2014-04-04 08:26 — Eric H.

I attended the RPM-Valley Forge meet last weekend in Malvern, PA and had a great time operating on local layouts, meeting with old friends, making some new friends, reviewing some great models on display, and taking in several informative presentations. The weekend of concentrated activity has recharged my model railroading batteries! I snapped several images with the iPhone to document techniques and ideas and posted a few below. I encourage other attendees of the 2014 RPM-Valley Forge event to post some of their favorite photos from the meet.

Eric

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How cool! This is what I saw coming back from lunch today! (4/3/14)

Thu, 2014-04-03 11:07 — rickwade

I was crossing the tracks today in Apopka, Florida coming back from lunch when I happed to look right (always look both left and right!) and there sat the Cannonball train! I took a couple of still shots hoping that the train would depart which it did just as I was headed back to the car. I shot this video with my iphone thus the less than stellar quality.

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Getting Real: Dispatcher sheets

Elephant or Ferrari

Sun, 2014-03-30 04:08 — fernpoint

We visited Beamish Museum yesterday.

If you get to the UK try to visit - awesome......

This is the Steam Elephant (replica) from around 1815

The driver told us that the build cost was about 500k dollars - we pointed out that you could buy a Ferrari F40 for that. The driver's "in character" mask slipped for a second - "I think I'd prefer the Ferrari" he mused.....then drove off: