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    Snow on the Tracks

    Canal St. Line Car 940 Car 940 is really an original Pearly Thomas car from 1920's off of the St. Charles line. Seen here dressed in holiday decorations and used on the Canal St line since Katrina destroyed the Canal lines cars. Photos was taken yesterday 12-11-08 during the snow. Today...
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    Snow on the Tracks

    :winter1: An uncommon sight is the random snow flurry in a New Orleans winter. You can imagine the excitement in this town when an inch accumulated on the ground. Suburbs adjacent to New Orleans less that 50 miles away measured 8". Moving in from the west, a low pressure system, unsually...
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    Shinohara or pico turnouts

    insulated or not insulated frog? What type turnouts are used with DCC for a slow crawl thru the turnout? Insulated or not insulated? What manf. (pico, Shinohara, etc.) is the better one for DCC layout? Looks like I am going to rebuild layout from almost new to accomodate its relocation into...
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    Photography Game?

    F Unit Old Amtrak unit in the LASTA (Louisiana Steam Train Association) yard, Jefferson, Louisiana, about 9 miles upriver from New Orleans.
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    Train is off the track

    :cry:Press St. tracks of NS and New Orleans Public Belt RR at Chartres St. in New Orleans' Bywater District. As the train moves from the yard rounding a curve that snakes past the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, these cars jumped the track
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    Digitrax or NCE?

    I appreciate the thoughts on this subject :razz: The more I understand the whole DCC operations and capabilites the better spent my money will be and my expectations of the new equipment. So what I am getting to understand is that not all decoders do sound, and not all will do both sound and...
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    Digitrax or NCE?

    Leaning toward NCE Power Cab wall1 Not sure if this is what I need. Besides DCC advantages, I would like to put sound into my locos. Can Power Cab support this? Also, as I am getting a understanding of DCC, the Power Cab is all in one, and the Pro Cab has many componets but can handle more...
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    My return to the Gauge

    :wave:After over 3 years, (since Aug 2005) I am getting back into my model railroad activities and back to reading and posting at the Gauge. I will begin planning the rebuilding of my layout that Katrina's rains ended. Water and layouts don't mix well. Spared portions of the layout have been...
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    I Survived the Hurricane

    Hello everyone. I evacuated the 3300 block of Burgundy St in New Orleans on Sunday, Aug 28th and headed to a family friends house in Mobile, AL. I took with me my neighbors acorss the street. We traveled in two Jeeps and a 30 year old VW. Loaded with 4 people and 5 cats and 2 dogs we took...
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    War Zone

    Atlanta train depot? looks like they burned atlanta depot again, this time with the yankees in it. This really reminds me of that famous depot scene in Gone With the Wind. I think its the firey clouds..... :D
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    New Orleans Steam

    745 Steam Locomotive photos Here are a few sites that were emailed to me that have great photos of the UP 745 Steam Locomotive Train Schedule - http://www.4rr.com/SP/745.wmv Photo Site - http://lrmrg.mytrains.org/ SP 745 departing UP Avondale...
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    New Orleans Steam

    More photos of 745 I put a few more pics up on my web site under the real steam page. These are photos taken by my neighbor on the 745 break-in run. The better ones are at the end of the page. http://bywaterrailroad.tripod.com/real.htm
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    Live Steam from Dixie

    hello, I added some new photos of the break-in run of Locomotive 745 to the bottom of one of my pages. The photos a large so the page takes a bit to load up but the are so clear that I did not want to change the detail. My friend who went train chasing took them for me...
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    New Orleans Steam

    photos photos in the yard that borders a public street
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    New Orleans Steam

    photo photos moving out of the yard
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    Railfanning in New Orleans

    photos, kind of posted the photos under "the real thing USA" The dude who took the digitals has real high photo size set so I have had to reduce the size to up load
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    New Orleans Steam

    photos photos in KCS yard
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    New Orleans Steam

    Today I went with two of my neighbors and we took a ride out early this moring to see the break-in run of the newly restored 745 2-8-2 steam loco. The three of us, arrived at the KCS yard just west of the city limits just before 9 am. The old engine was off in the distance backing into a "Y" and...
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    Railfanning in New Orleans

    tran chasing in Dixie Today I went with two of my neighbors and we took a ride out early this moring to see the break-in run of the newly restored 745 2-8-2 steam loco. The three of us, arrived at the KCS yard just west of the city limits just before 9 am. The old engine was off in the...
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    Carnival Season Starts Today, King's Day

    More Mardi Gras Info This guide is very popular with the tourist and locals, it has al the seasons info in it....http://www.mardigrasguide.com/
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