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    help with wiring a wye with manual switch throws

    How should I do it? I have a wye from the mainline to a lengthy branch line. I do not plan to put switch machines on the turnouts. So my question is how, and Wye?
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    This is what happens when you are not LOOKING

    Darn momentum throttles! I would imagine it was left without a handbrake and eventually the air bled off of the brake cylinders. Has it happened before? My guess is every turntable pit in America has a couple of wheel impressions in it.
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    Steamin through Bella Vista

    Well, then heres a photo showing the Rix bridge a kit, that has become as universal as Atlas's Lumberyard. We put some forms in, and screeded plaster smooth to get the city side abutment. Otherwise the bridge is resting on the sub roadbed, and a clete on the back of the fascia. Be sure to let...
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    Steamin through Bella Vista

    [ Don't want to brag here, but that Miller Engineering sign in your scene is one that I designed for them. :) Val I must say, that sign is a highpoint of the layout and were going to get at least one more. The interchangeability (is that a word?) of the differant decals of the sign is a...
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    Steamin through Bella Vista

    I have not posted for few weeks. I have been trying to get new fresh areas done to photograph. Forgive the incomplete scenery in some spots but, here it is. The neon sign is from Miller Engineering, neat toy lots of bang for the buck, the billboards came form the internet. The wigwags were...
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    Walther's Union Station

    I don't know youre era but, the Los Angeles Terminal Annex Post Office was part of the Union Passenger Terminal and was rail served, just a thought.
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    Summertime

    Summertime in Santa Lucia CA. Some years ago Babe Ruth stepped off the train durring a water stop here and wandered over to the sand lot for a few minutes, and no, Stinky Peterson never found the ball, but the Babe tossed the guys a couple new ones from the rear platform as the train left town.
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    How is the Scenery coming along? Leave reply, thanks!

    The coloring, rock work and ground foam use is great. I don't want to nit pick, but one thing bothers me. There are no cuts in the hillside before the tunnel portals. Real railroads usually cut the right of way into the hillside for some distance before the tunnel, While there is a prototype...
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    BLI 3751 in BLACK and white

    The large green and grey house is the new Atlas kit. the brown one is half of a Rix Maxwell Ave, with an added dormer I made with the back half of the kit and Cambell window castings.
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    BLI 3751 in BLACK and white

    That is an unfinished AMB kit, "The owner of the layout is an ex SP Engineer so he humors us by letting us run our Santa fe engines." Its a beautiful kit, I will post pics when that area is more complete. The town on the layout is named Santa Lucia, intended to suggest places like Santa Lucia...
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    BLI 3751 in BLACK and white

    She runs great, a little slippery until the plating wears off of the drivers, but now pulling good sized passenger trains up a 3 and half percent grade like it was level. I had to have them send a new smoke box front because mine was missing the number under the headlight. BLIs service dept...
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    BLI 3751 in BLACK and white

    Here are some more photos of the same engine, now with the clamshell smoke bender applied. I guess I need to work on some more photo locations but I really like the way this scene is coming together, so humor me for a few weeks:p
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    Changing Times at the Water Tower

    what are you using for the dead trees?
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    BLI 3751 in BLACK and white

    More photoshop fun.
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    Time to beef up yard security and head to the paint shop!

    When theres a knock on the door I wouldnt open it, :eek: Talent like that does not happen over night:D
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    2nd Run BLI Northern making the grade

    I use a Nikon Coolpix 3200.
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    2nd Run BLI Northern making the grade

    One more This engine belongs to a friend mine, we both ordered form the same place but mine is still in a brown van somewhere!
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    2nd Run BLI Northern making the grade

    Here is one of the 2nd run BLI Santa Fe 3700's, say what you want about Broadway they make a great overall product for the money. Forgive the hokey photoshop trick, but the kids get a kick out of it.
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    What's a good Digital Camera

    I have a Nikon 3200. 3.1. mp. It's a good all purpose job, has a great Macro feature but lacks depth of field in most model railroad uses, I am learning to work around that. It has a lot of features for under three hundred dollars and thats why I chose it over others. The photos I posted earlier...
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    Black Widow F's crossing Davis Creek

    When the paint is dry, and I am happy with the look, I varnish it with very cheap gloss medium available in the craft paint section of Wal Mart or other hobby craft stores. You can add as many coats as you like and tint it if you like. I poke at and swirl the varnish so it reflects light like...
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