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Spotted this elsewhere. A newbie was being given advice to use sifted sand/dirt of the desired colors for one's scenery requirements, as long as it was heated in an oven on low heat to kill bacteria, etc. This was good advice as far as it went. I must also add that it is very important to run...

MRR PUN SHEET OFF-TRACK BETTING: section gang playing poker in a handcar shed WYE: what a wife says real loud when she finds the receipt for your brass loco HUMP YARD: where stockcar loads of camels get sorted 44 TONNER: someone who loves greasy burgers, onion rings and ice cream a lot...

Did the Budd Company ever build Rail Diesel Car demonstrators in the 50's? It seems to me that they would have done so. Has anyone got a pic of same? I wished to see/copy the paint scheme on them. Tom :)

We will shortly start laying track on the first part of our new HO sectional layout and the first two industries will be laid out: a local coal & oil dealer using two spurs and a feed & grain mill along a creek. We will again make and use a cardboard mock-up of each structure in both scenes, so...

Wish to convincingly model small, low waterfall on a creek adjacent to small grainmill on our HO sectional layout. The grainmill naturally gets it's water power by the diversion of upstream flow thru sluce to waterwheel, with discharge returning to creek below falls. Will probably do creek by...

Has anyone had experience using steel studs for framing their benchwork? We [small HO sectional group: New England Northern] are about to experiment with this in building hexagonal free-standing unit, approx. 26" on each face, for our layout. It will be used as a direction reverser for single...

HELLO: If a moderator or anyone else on this forum has recently sent me a private e-mail message, I may have deleted same. My hard drive was trashed on my former computer by an e-mailed virus, so am now in the habit of deleting any e-mail which has no specific title and I've received a few of...

HI AGAIN PHIL, NELSON, and all of you folks! Don't check my e-mail very often, but will have to change that bad habit. My apologies here for not getting back to all of you who sent me private HELLO posts. Just posted at HO trains forum, as my pal Gary and I are going to now reimmerse ourselves...

HI AGAIN ALL! Am transplant from defunct rr-line forum. HI NYC, BRAKIE, NELSON, COWCATCHER, HUMMINGBIRD, TANKERTOAD & EVERYONE ELSE FROM THE OLD FORUM! Still working on my old farmhouse, in kitchen now, with 3 rooms to go. Wife and I have put over 4,000 miles on our new-used Honda 1500 Goldwing...

HI FOLKS! Papa smurf here! Brakie told me where to find all of you. Just wanted to say hello and will try to make an effort to pop in often. :) :)