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    Growing the Hobby - A Good News Video

    Hi All: This video was posted on another website and my search of this site hasn't turned it up so thought i'd share it with y'all. http://www.lionel.com/commercial/lionel_commercial.html Also, one of our local stations did their own version of this report over the holidays so now i've seen...
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    Books on Railroad Operations

    Steam Steel & Stars - Photos by O.Winston Link Hi All: This book with text by Tim Hensley is a beautiful addition to any collection of railroading photographs. It details one man's view of the last days of steam on the Norfolk & Western RR. More importantly, it captures not only the equipment...
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    Modular Railroading Resources

    Hi All: Wanted to share another HO modular club site with y'all. This link will take you to their module building tutorial. There are other links you can follow to see some of their layouts, etc. Just saw them in November in Raleigh, think the layout was about 30 by 60, very complex...
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    Charles Ro Supply Company

    Hi: A friend of mine has bought from Charles Ro for 10 years. They have been reliable and fair. My friend occasionally has to wait for several months to get all that he has ordered, but it always has eventually come. Their shipping charges are very reasonable, especially for large orders. Call...
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    American Flyer 4684 Engine

    Hi Pat: Is this S-Gauge? Ted
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    Everyone "officially" Welcome Spitfire

    You've come a long way pilgram, .....er,... i mean Val. Congrats and long may you run. Ted
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    Outdated? Sayings

    Hi again: Eager Beaver. I'm hip Daddeo. FAr out. Farm out. The military industrial complex. (Thank you Dwight) "The future, one word,....plastics". Coo, coo ca-ju,... A happening. What a trip, Slip me some skin. Put him on ice. Later, Ted
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    Low revolution motors

    Hi: I'm looking for a slow motor to run the downspout on my S-Gauge water tower. Want to let people push a button and lower or raise the spout. Most S'guage stuff uses a solinoid to do this but i want a slower moving solution. Any sources? Also going to put a blinking light on top of the tower...
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    Bridge Track

    Hi: Here is a modular club that has eliminated bridge tracks. We see them a lot at shows in our area. I am hoping that someday I can transfer this idea to our club. http://www.mindspring.com/~gugliotta/id4.html This page shows how they build their modules. They are a very dedicated lot...
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    Outdated? Sayings

    More of the same Hi: How about: So's your old man. Ina pig's eye! If pig's had wings. From your mouth to God's ears. Who ya gonna call? Good Evening, and good luck. "And that's the way it is,.....Thursday (fill in a date)" I am not a crook. Yes Keemosabi Wheee doggies! (Thanks Jed) Like father...
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    AMTRACK Pole at Wall Street Journal

    HI All: Was shown a poll this morning at the journal. It's running about 55% increase funding 28% cut all funding and then there's those in between. If you'd like to express your support for some rail service in the USA give it a look...
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    Modular Railroading Resources

    S-Gauge module notes with some general Info as well Hi All: This link is to our club's "Module Guidelines": http://www.trainweb.org/acsg/SPECS/page1.html They are the same as the Baltimore Area American Flyer Club's standards. This is a link to a bunch of "lessons learned" stuff that a...
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    What do you listen to when modeling/running trains?

    Hi All: We had a thread on here "a while back" on train music. Y'all might do a search on that. I usually listen to the local college radio station. Free format is still alive and living there and accept for a few shows done by alumni they can't play any group that had a top forty hit in the...
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    Mayewood Railroaders Goes Corporate

    Congrats! We'll see you there. Ted
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    Polar Express: 2 thumbs up

    Hi All: Resurecting this thread because my family plus one finally went to see this movie this past weekend. We went to Charleston to the Imax theater where it was playing in 3-D. I don't know what this flick was like to see in a regular theater, but, let me tell you, on a 5 story screen in 3-D...
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    Helping Underpriviledged Children!!!

    Leroy, Just make the last module at each end 36 inches wide. You always have better access at the end, because you can reach over the end! You may want to think of this layout as more of a "sectional" layout as opposed to a "modular" layout. That way you have more freedom to cross the tracks...
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    Helping Underpriviledged Children!!!

    Leroy: Consider making the layout a "U" shaped afair that is not very deep. Say 24 to 30 inches. Why, so the kids can reach all areas of the layout. If you make it 4 feet wide, you'll be doing all the scenery in the middle and where's the fun in that for the kids? So, take your skill saw and cut...
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    Toxic Threat Lingers in S.C. Train Wreck

    Hi All: Latest news is that it was an open switch. They are trying to find out how it happened now, doing interviews and such. The mainline train was diverted onto the siding and into a parked engine and cars. I read that the siding train crew was off around 7:00 pm and the accident didn't...
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    Brain Teaser / Diversion

    Round-a-bout. (It's the nature of this thread.
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    More: Are we merely stereotypes

    Er,.. a couple of thoughts. Bimbos do have a hobby. It's men, and the things men (read "money") provide for them in exchange for services rendered. Two, it's really a question, when did "dumb blond" jokes start? Marlyn Monroe? Jean Harlow? Fay Rae? Og? Three, schitzophrenia is not such a bad...
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