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    RJR Traction Depot

    detailing Latest updates.. Hopefully as you will see I have been concentrating on details.
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    Is there a common tool for cutting flex track?

    razor saw I prefer to use a disc in a dremel now but have used a razor saw. The saw method is a lot easier if you make a wood jig. get an off cut of timber something like a piece of 2" * 1" and saw two slots in the bottom. Then the timber can be placed over the track with the rail in the slots...
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    RJR Traction Depot

    Thanks Ralph. A bit more from last nights activities.... When I started the layout I was concerned that its small size and also the fact I was modelling a maintenance depot would leave the base board looking all railway no scenery. So when the raised area beyond the bridge evolved it gave...
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    RJR Traction Depot

    Hi guys, Not posted on here for a while so thought I would drop in and let you know what I have been up to. Due to constant bad weather I have rebuilt my indoor layout that was designed around my old On30 stock. to reflect the change I made to OO The depot.... The main depot is scratch built...
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    RJR Indoors

    not posted for a while but last weekend the LPP had to do some repair work, trains were held up for hours !! John RJR Branch Line
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    RJR Indoors

    RJR Dockside "johns Quay" Pictures from this weeks activities Started to add details into the office block Then finally decided on a name for the quayside .. original hey Then the line started getting busy first off a passanger train came through.. Then the event of the week a...
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    March 07 photo competition: trains aren't the only way to fly

    RJR Entry I think this fits the bill, a car on a train !!:) John RJR Branch Line
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    PHOTO FUN week of 3/3/07

    Hi Nice pics every one, Thought I share a video log of this week, If your on other forums you may have seen the link already its hosted on YouTube and this is the direct link (click here) John RJR Branch Line
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    RJR Indoors

    More additions to a mini layout Added somemore structures to the layout, as its so small a couple have had to bridge the tracks !! John
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    Bachmann 2-8-0

    The picture is an out of site rad I needed to acommadate a fiddle yard. Although the picture is a diesel I can get my 2-6-0 round no problem. The white window sill is about 8" inches wide so as you can see the radius can be no more than 12 - 14" John RJR Branch Line
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    Redoing my website

    I found this imag hostint site that allows you to make animated slide shows that can be added into your own website. http://www.picturetrail.com I recently re-did my front page using two of these slide shows. John
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    RJR Indoors

    weathering Got round to weathering my 2-6-0 last night Ive also been playing with some of the effects on photoshop, cant get the smoke right though, ideas welcome !! Added sme more figures too
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    RJR Indoors

    thankyou Thankyou Ron, The small green steamer started its life as a OO Puffing Billy from a Bachmaan trainset. I stripped the inards out and scratchbuilt the new body from plasticard, the boiler is a piece of plumbing waste pipe and the smoke stak is a 22mm waste water connector...
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    RJR Indoors

    Because Im using HO track I wanted to loose as much of it as possible. So I laid the track direct onto the base board and then used a tub of fast drying decorators filler (all track joints are soldered). I filled the sleepers between the rails using a scrap piece of plasticard as a scraper then...
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    RJR Indoors

    Ive not been on here for a while so I thought I'd put on a couple of pictures of my new indoor layout, its 7' long and about 7" wide housed on the window cill of my conservatory The basic (small) layout Right end a couple of weeks later (spot the mirror under the bridge ?) Left...
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