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    Future Collegiate Career in Railroading?

    Hey all. Okay, so being a junior in public high school, I've come to the point where I seriously need to start considering my college options and what I want to do with my life. I'm enrolled in a few AP classes (Advanced Placement college courses that earn college credits) with a dose of TV...
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    Need New Loco: 2-8-2 BLI Mikado?

    Hey everyone. I figure it's Christmas time and time for me to indulge my spendings on a new locomotive for the Black River. My biggest problem is the 18" curves on my tiny 4x7 layout. It just stinks being a fan of really long, elegant, ATSF passenger trains, doesn't it? Anyway, I was going to...
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    Lighting Help - What to use?

    Hey everyone. Back on the Black River Sub, work is underway in order to prep the layout for much needed improvements to show off the layout this holiday season. Junior year has halted for me for the winter holidays, and alas I have some time to work on the layout after a six month hiatus. I'm...
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    My Layout - ATSF BRSD

    Howdy. It's been awile since I've last posted some photos, and with some new members here venturing into the layout stage, I'd figure I'd share some more modelling accomplishments I've made thus far. This is my layout, the Black River Subdivision, a fictional branchline of the Atchison, Topeka...
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    Atlas DCC--Sound Issue

    Hey guys, I'm operating my small layout using Atlas' DCC System. (Atlas Master) The controller supports three functions - F0, F1, F2. Obviously, for the sound-equipped locos, this means I can only control the headlight, bell, and whistle. I just got my Christmas present today in the mail, and...
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    Black River Depot Part II

    Hey everyone! With the first quarter of school out of the way, and some nice new presents arriving soon for my birthday (the end of this month), I have reason to get back to the layout and continue some progress. I'm a little stuck right now, actually. I've got the depot building positioned...
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    Glass/Other Details F7

    Hey guys. Once again, another newbie help session. To round out my collection of 50's ATSF diesels, I got a Athearn (Standard, not Genesis) F7A in warbonnet for quite a deal on ebay. It was too hard to pass up, and it had MRC DCC decoder already installed. Considering how I have DCC, it was...
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    Operating A Small Layout

    Hey guys. I need some help. I've been at club operating sessions, but now I have to buckle down and adjust to something a lot smaller--a 4x7 HO layout. Here is the track scematic: I have never done a card/waybill system, and have no idea how to set it up. I know the basics of loads/empties...
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    HO Small Station Details

    Hey all! I know I've been gone for a while--life got in the way--but I'm beginning to have time to continue working on my layout. I will have many surprises in store soon to show you guys. Soon. First, does anyone have any good ideas for small station details? Items such as benches, luggage...
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    Foamers - A Novel Of Suspense

    Okay. I was so excited when I got the shipment from Amazon yesterday. Included was a novel titled Foamers, by Jon Berson. One of the only fiction novels dealing with trains/Amtrak, I was hooked at first sight. It's about a "foamer" (Amtrak speak for railfan), a PR guy at SEPTA, who has to...
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    ATSF Black River

    Hey guys! Now that I'm back online (due to school finally subsiding... only two months left!), I can post updates to my 4'x7' HO layout, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Black River Subdivision, located somewhere loosely in the midwest outside Chicago in the outskirts of Black River. Please...
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    Road Signs

    Well, I have another good ol' question! I've been doing a ton of work on the layout lately. A burst of enthusiasm, you may call it. My recent project has been a road and its crossing over the BRB mainline. Pictures will come this weekend, along with a post in the HO forum to show my progress...
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    Building Time

    Okay, as you may know from my posts around The Gauge, I'm building some structures for my layout. All three arrived Parcel Post via USPS today! Wonderful Timing. They are: Walther's Cornerstone City Station Walther's Cornerstone Interstate Fuel & Oil Depot Pikestuff 17 Loading Dock This is...
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    Station Complex

    Hey all, Okay. Another question. This one may be a bit more difficult. On my 4'x7' layout, I was going to build a medium-sized city station. Obviously, it would be at the edge of the layout, with a paved road coming from yonder leading to it. This is to infer that bigger and better things...
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    Cleaning Track/Wheels

    As you guys know, I just "officially" started in the hobby. I just wondered what methods you all used to clean your wheels on those precious locomotives and what you use to clean your track... Interesting story... My sister was painting her nails near my train table (I wasn't there, so I...
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    WS Roadbed

    Okay, a few roadbed questions! I recently got all my Snap-Track together and laid it out in a plan I like. Then I put the Woodland Scenics foam roadbed underneath, just to see how it would look. I think it will look great when it's done. But first, there are those pesky questions... To...
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    4'x7' Track Plan

    Hey everyone! I finally got a layout secured, and is 100% realistically going to be built. It is a 4'x7' foot table, resting on sawhorses, with a top layer of plywood and homasote. I've been looking around and can't find any decent layouts that I could tweak. Nor one with a track list. Not...
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    What do you think?

    Well, I at least owe you guys this much after posting some threads that didn't get anywhere and some threads with some rather odd questions... :rolleyes: I decided to wait until after Christmas and I got back from my cruise to post this, and I'm not bragging, but I honestly want your guys'...
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    DCC Conversion

    Sup dudes? :p Quick question. Does anyone know how to convert a Bachmann Spectrum F40PH to DCC? What decoder to use? Does it require soldering? How 'bouts a Walthers Trainline Dash 8-40B? Thanks. For more info, see this thread: http://the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=12021 Any info is...
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    Yet Another Inquiry... (RTR P40)

    Amtrak Locomotive DCC Hey everybody! :wave: Okay, I have another outlandish question. I am looking for an Amtrak locomotive to lead my consist of American Orient Express cars, as they do in the real world. I've been searching around, and I've found the Walther's Trainline Luxury Liner...
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