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I feel like the only straight at a gay party, but what happened to the gauge forum?:violin1: Here's my story of tragedy and woe; okay I exaggerate a bit. I've have been away from the hobby for quite some time now, a combination of surgery, hobby burnout and the fact I can't get close to the...

I designed my layout with reversing loops approximately 6 years ago knowing that eventually a product would come out allowing the turnouts to be thrown automatically, thus allowing a reversing loop layout to become a continuous run layout. And lo and behold, God made the hair to run with the...

A friend of mine turned me on to river silt as a base through out the layout, nothing like dirt to represent dirt. Now before I have posts warning me of impending doom using the river silt, a friend of mine has had his on his layout for 6 years now and it is working fine. Yes I not only baked...

As some of you old timers here know, I hang out with a group of HO'rs on Friday nights and help work on John Green's layout in Vancouver, BC. Vancouver's local community newspaper just recently did a fairly decent article on John's layout. Unfortunately to make it "net" friendly, many of the...

Well its that time of year for my posting of this again, but every year I learn how to do it lazier and lazier - see age does has its privileges...lol! I'm hoping this link works. The schedule will be at the bottom of the page for both countries. And Vancouver - as the best place to live...

I'm making the move to "studio" lighting for model railroading layout photo's using strobes. I'm thinking initially of buying one strobe kit with umbrella and maybe a soft box (if you guys think it will work). I will be adding another strobe, but until then I will be purchasing a slave to fire...

I tried to post in trainboard but it had a bandwidth problem so I am posting here. I was called away on what appeared to be an informal medical problem for my mother on Vancouver Island. Unfortunately it was very critical and led to her death on the 13th of July in Nanaimo Regional Hospital...

Well, its been a long time coming but in HO at least the first Kaslo kits are available for the FP7/9's. Now I'm going to save you one step because Kaslo doesn't carry these (Huh? I hear you thinking) so don't bother contacting them. Central Hobbies put up the money to have these developed...

Well, its been a long time coming but in HO at least the first Kaslo kits are available for the FP7/9's. Now I'm going to save you one step because Kaslo doesn't carry these (Huh? I hear you thinking) so don't bother contacting them. Central Hobbies put up the money to have these developed...

First of all this is train related as it happened at an LHS. Secondly, this story just happened. Thirdly, it just happened at Van hobbies in Vancouver, BC. And now the story. This guy brings in a box of train equipment and other goodies to sell to the store. The store buys the lot for an...

I am starting to get lots of virus at my home address which is strange since my public address is the hotmail one you see here. In the past two hours, I've received four emails with bugs in them. I have yet to receive a virus email at my hotmail address, but I am getting them at my home...

I have talked about the Black and Decker Navigator Saw here before, but I thought I would give it a plug as one of the most useful tools around the home and the layout. If you are looking for a cheap saw that just about does it all, give the Navigator Saw a look. The saw itself is a ugly but...

From Trainboard: I'm afraid I have some terrible news regarding my stepfather Don Brown. He passed away this evening after a long fight with various infections and diabetes. I know he was very active in a lot of the discussion groups. His wife asked that any newsgroups/forums be notified of...

Below is the invite I posted for my last layout party. This will be explained at your read further. This is my third year of hosting these parties so I am actually getting a sense of what I am doing now. I will be advertising in a number of forums, so apologises to those who bounce between...

Some one in a "backdrop" thread raised the topic of backdrop support and styrene was raised as a possibility. I have a friend who just installed 55 feet of it on his layout (but double sided so over 110 feet of it really). The first issue was seams. He experimented and went with an auto bondo...

For the past four or five times I have logged onto the Gauge Chat after about 5 to 10 minutes I get the boot. I don't have a fire wall and nothing has changed on my computer that I am aware of that should affect this outcome. I do run adaware, spybot and an antivirus program, but these...

The CP holiday Train is perhaps one of the most decorative trains in North America during the Xmas season. Below is a schedule Dispatcher42 produced and I have copied and pasted it here. If anyone has the American schedule that would be great (there are two trains): Subject: CP HOLIDAY...

Our annual train show is on at the Cameron Centre in Burnaby, BC for any of you Washingtonians willing to brave the drive and the border. If you need directions, contact Central Hobbies at www.central-hobbies.com and ask Bill for directions. It opens at ten this Sunday the 9th of November, and I...

October 4 & 5, 2003 Model Railroad Show The first weekend of October is slated annually for the Lynden Lions Club Model Railroad Show, held at the Northwest Washington Fair grounds. I took this off the chamber of commerce site of the town of Lynden. If some one lives there and...

I wrote this thread about two months ago and posted it in a number of forums, I thought I had done it here but I couldn't find it. Some one asked for anyones experience of AMI roadbed so I thought I would copy and paste this in here. My apologies to those who have already read it: I...