Recent content by Ben H

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    Speaking of antiques - from junk to gem - ebay

    Don't pick on philip. He wants to wallow in world guilt. Just one question would Central be required to expect more money from this trader of used items if Central had lost instead of made money on his items at later sale.
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    Decal/Road Number/Lettering Remover - Joe's Gel

    Well I don't know if he is up or down, but I know after a quick search on Goggle that he has a product address on Stargate.net You can go to site with a click on the following users.stargate.net/~joepol/index.html I see that he now deals with Dealers only - but I don't know if that...
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    TV/Railroad Accuracy

    I saw that one and asked the question - what are you watching - it must have been a brain break as I was channel surfing However we must remember that it is Television drama and as such has no need to be correct, unless the issue would comprise the story line and its believability. When...
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    Another area nearly finished.

    I live on the west coast beside the rain forest and it looks just like your layout. Even the old pictures from the turn of the century (1900) look like your layout. Your sure ....... you didn't live in this era ...... did you?
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    Paint shop pro 7

    Go to Google.com the seach engine and searc h for "Paint Shop 7" or click on this link below and then type in "Paint Shop 7" and watch the help flood your screen. http://www.google.ca/
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    I am Canadian!!!!

    A huge Welcome to Grumbeast a new Canadian! From the Western edge of our country (over five thousand miles from your eastern edge area) I extend congratulations to you on your new citizenship.
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    Curved Turnouts Code 100

    I'm considering using one or two large radius curved turnouts on my under construction layout. It now a big layout put I would like to have my twin 0-8-0 lash-up move around the curves easily. Any experience that might help with this idea would be appreciated.
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    NScale--Missing Photos

    Yes 2 on the right. Do I get top of the class for the first answer? Jon got in first - Darn. What with the confused underlined I don't get that with Internet Explorer 6.0.2
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    Clickable Trackplan

    The clicks work fine - the modeling is just delicious.
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    Downloadable Scale Rulers

    Nice music but I can't get to the "download" item and therefore can't see or load the scale ruler.
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    Whats Happening ---??????

    Most often I come to The Gauge to review the the general items then to look for new HO items. Being into HO its sort of natural. However the HO people seem to be either very contented with no unanswered questions or relaxing as they await a a great flood of HO information once winter starts...
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    Yay! It's here!

    Mason Jar congrats they are great engines - I love my two P2K 0-8-0 the only change was to put in DCC. That was until I recently purchased two tenders for the P2K 0-6-0. These have electrical pick-ups on the tender trucks. I removed the tender bodies from each 0-8-0, removed the DCC...
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    Fun on Saturday Night

    Spitfire you have a super model maker in the family. His work is wonderful and the club looks like a a great group of railroaders. Nice to have a permanent location - something we are still looking to do. Likely we will have to wait until after the NMRA show and convention in Seattle - July...
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    Printing white

    Friends of mine have purchased Alps printers of of Ebay and have been able to do a lot special decal work. Try searching under these headings when looking for the Alps printer and inks. Home > All Categories > Electronics & Computers > Computers & Office Products Its sad that these...
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    MR Club in Calgary?????

    Calgary has a number of clubs, some great model and train shops and a big annual train show that gets 25,000 people to attend. What they don't seem to have is many people who are interested in the Internet as far as creating Web pages or listing things for sale. This is the address of...