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    Dirty track and cleaning cars

    I use a Centerline car with Goo Gone. Works fine for me.
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    hot wire foam cutters

    Thanks, I'll go for it. By the way, I tried wire in the soldering gun. Didn't generate enough heat. Do I need special wire for something like that?
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    hot wire foam cutters

    I've cut the stuff with saws, knives, rasps, etc., and I'm tired of the mess. The thing that attracts me about the hot wire device can be seen by following this link: http://hotwirefoamfactory.com/products/customer/video/video.htm then choose one of the little films to view. It's the...
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    hot wire foam cutters

    Has anyone had experience with the Hot Wire Foam Factory AC powered hot knife starter kit? This is the basic hot knife with the AC wall transformer (the wall wart)? I'm assuming that the full blown product with their $75 power supply would cut faster, but is the basic hot knife kit OK for use on...
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    Reverse Running UP Engine

    The photo I submitted to this month's contest shows a CSX unit leading a train westbound through Point of Rocks, MD. It's running long hood forward. The autorack cars in the consist were empty, unlike the eastbound trains at the same location. The box cars may have had a load. This...
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    Freight station walls

    Xaniel, Search this site for "bricks" You'll find it.
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    derailment woes

    Problem solved! 1. I contacted the folks at Microtrains about the problem. They said to put a piece of tape on the guard rail of each turnout, and color it black to match the rail. This works, but is at best a temporary solution. Tape comes off... Adhesive gets on the rails... etc. 2. I...
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    Dry Brushing

    Woodie, Dry brushing might work on card structures with no problem, since there's so little paint involved. But I recently discovered that the acrylic paint that I used to touch up a couple of spots on a card structure can cause one. I had printed up a brick pattern on photo paper using...
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    Two questions

    Oh, I use Elmer's rubber cement, bought at Wal-Mart.
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    Two questions

    The rubber cement doesn't attack the foam at all. I mark out the centerline for the rail and paint along it with rubber cement. Paint the bottom of the cork roadbed with rubber cement. Wait 2 minutes while both dry. Then apply the roadbed to the foam and it adheres. Last fall, I even...
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    Two questions

    I've had good luck with rubber cement for temporary track (even flex track). I mark out on the foam where the track should go. Put cork roadbed down with rubber cement. Then install the track with track nails. It holds fine for a couple of months. It zips right up when I want to remove...
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    Best deal (And hobby shop) EVER!!!!

    You got that right, inkaneer! WM-N-Fan, I took your advice and went down there (even took the train into town). It's train heaven, all right. And to boot, I even found one of my former students working there. I hadn't seen him since he graduated in '97. (I wasn't RRing in 97, and didn't...
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    Loco Comments

    uboat -- YES!! :)
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    bricks

    Thanks for the link, Rich. I'll take a look. I glued the bricks on with rubber cement. I expect that it won't be permanent, but it's what I had at the time. I needed something that wasn't water based because the bricks are from an ink jet printer.
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    bricks

    I probably just reinvented the wheel, but here goes. I'm just beginning the scratchbuilding business. I built this structure from balsa wood, but wanted it to be brick. Adobe Illustrator has a brick texture as a standard feature. I filled a rectangle with the texture, imported it to...
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    Loco Comments

    ATLAS - I own two of these. They are excellent. The paint and detail are top notch, and both are flawless performers on the track (but see my speed comment about the SD-35). I like the Atlas accumate couplers on both of these. Saved me the trouble of converting to MT. SD-35. Clean...
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    ShuttleView

    Thanks all for your suggestions. Each has promise for improvement. Each, of course, will slow me down, but it’s the journey that is interesting. Take Shamus for example, he tore down Badger Creek when it was finished, just so he could start over again. Tyson, I had already noticed that my...
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    ShuttleView

    Here's a view of my layout as seen from the space shuttle. It's easy to see several things: 1. I'm very slow. Been working on it for nearly a year, but I'm having fun. 2. Did I mention that I'm slow? I've been having something of a crisis of design. There's a coal mine at position...
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    Rumblin' thru

    A Western Maryland coal drag coasts past the old depot on the outskirts of Westminster in May of 1968.
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    Three Cheers

    Western Maryland, of course! It'll only be that for another month, though. It'll be McDaniel College begiinning July 1st.
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