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    Beyer-Garratt

    kazam! http://www.djhmodelloco.co.uk/ho-gauge.asp?Country=Rest%20of%20World
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    Club Open House....

    I really like the sign on the golf ball factory :D neil
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    Weak Motor

    You might have got oil on the commutator of the motor. That can cause some of the problems you have. Take a piece of tissue paper or ciggarette paper and soak some meths or white spirit on it (any organic solvent will work) and use the paperto wipe the oil off the commutator. Also clean out...
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    Running paired engines

    Yes. You'll be fine. If the locos are facing in opposite directions then you may find it doesn;t work because the couplers are not insulated from the track (due to being metal and screwed on to the metal frame of the loco that conducts electricity to the motor). This was a problem on...
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    Blocked Track question

    If by couplers you mean the plastic rail joiners that the EZ track has then YES that will elesctrically insulate the two pieces of track so you are dancing. neil
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    It's frustrating-----

    It might be but at that time (1967) there weren't many kits of anything other than rolling stock so it wouldn't surprise me if it were carved linoleum instead. That bridge is by Linn Westcott by the way.
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    HOn30 logging locomotive

    That is great. I hava always wanted one of those. Maybe i'll build one this summer like your one :D neil
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    It's frustrating-----

    I can't tell you how HE built it but the book "Scenery for Model Railroads" by Bill McClanahan has a section on donig it. Much of the masonry in John's later work was done by carving plaster (e.g. the photo on the front cover). That bridge was done quite early so he might have used a...
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    Railcars and railbuses

    con-cor makes an HOn3 model of a RGS/DRGW galloping goose. http://www.trains.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/005/019deddw.asp Appart from that you need craftmans kits as far as i am aware. I made my two from lorry kits and little motors. This guy has loads of info on his in...
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    Mantua 0-6-0 tank vs. Bachmann 0-6-0 tank?

    Of the two tanks the bachmann one is more nicely detailed and, having a newer mechanism, would probably run nicer out of the box. Reading your thread in the logging line it occurs to me that you might be better off with with the bachmann one as it is a model of a short line engine and the...
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    Need some info re: correct engine for logging line

    How about the small drivered vaersion of the Bachman 4-6-0? It is a model of a Baldwin form the 1890's or thereabouts that has been shopped and upgradred with electric lighting, walcherts valve gear and the like. It is also more of a 'road' engine, a jack of all trades, than the P2k 0-6- which...
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    Green Goose

    That is cool as anything! :thumb: I think you need to make the front end sit a bit lower so the wholething is level. Maybe change to low profile wheels if the flanges catch on the mudguards? That will be a really fun thing to detail. I love the peaked roof too :) This picture (by...
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    scratchbuilding Catenary wire

    So you have one rail the return rail (common) and make the other rail and overhead connected together to the live. That would make a hybrid layout work with DCC. The problem would be if the loco turned around - then the single side of wheel, normally connected to the ground would be on the...
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    Country flats almost finished!

    I really like the way it is all finised to the same standard. It looks much more realistic - even if there is more that you are going to do. I think a backdrop would add a huge amount to the scene. And brighter lights! :) Neil
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    switchback, which end 1st?

    It didn't usually matter which way round they started. Logging locos were as happy going backwards as forwards. SOmetimes, on a really steep switchback, the railraod would fix it so that the loco was on the uphill end of the train the majority of the time so that if the train became a run-away...
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    Water front railroading

    Hi Willis, I rather like your boaty, what scale is it? Is it a scratchbuild or a kit? I am building a resin kit for a trawler at the moment and an very impressed by the detail you can get on only a few castings with this method. Is yours similar? Neil
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    HOn3 MDC RTR Shays

    You could try putting a drop of Locktite or super glue on the end of the motor shaft and let capilliary action draw the adhesive into the gap between the moter shaft and the gear. My MDC HO shay is an older kit that had a different motor and this hasn't been a problem for me however the...
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    Building the Balmfort steamloco in Fn3

    Hi Gerd, That is really good work. It reminds me a lot of the Backwoods Minatures kit for a similar locomotive in On3/30. Your one looks great. I'm very impressed with your milling machine set up.
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    Thomas the engine!

    hey that's quite good. It's not a colourful as the one in the book but it is the same otherwise. I was reading the key and would like to point out that the island of sodor isn't in the Pacific Ocean though!!!!
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    Thomas the engine!

    My granddad had a book that was published a while ago (probably a decade or more) that was a collection of all the Thomas the Tank books. It was printed in a large format (coffee table size) but the pages of the original books were reproduced inside. At the front of the book was an...
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