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    HO Crane Project

    Greetings :) Interestingly, I was just looking at the Roco Dockside Crane which comes already DCC fitted and has an optional joystick controller. http://www.tee-usa.com/roco40110.html You may want to take a look and see if it generates any ideas :) Regards
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    Great Western of Canada Livery

    Hi David :) Are you really a Flying Scotsman? :) I agree, the lined livery was splendid, and am trying to think about how to translate that onto a GP9 with dynamic brakes for example for passenger work. Eventually, I will get a passenger steam loco, and then we will go the whole fully...
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    Great Western of Canada Livery

    Hi Chris :) Yep, I have... I have a railway room that is about 12' x 11', so what I am doing first is a portable small yard about 10'6 x 2' which will go down one of the 12' sides eventually, being associated with a station on the adjacent wall. I will try to draw up the plan for display...
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    Great Western of Canada Livery

    Greetings all :) I recently posted about my fictional railway that I am basing my modelling on.. the Great Western Railway of Canada, partly based on Fact with a lot of Fiction involved. :) The thread for the history was :- http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=13318 I have now...
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    d_train (72), moria (46)

    Thanks all :) Birthdays are great... no-one in the household worries when Graham goes to play trains on his birthday.. he's allowed to be undisturbed that day with no chores... just heaven help him tomorrow if he doesn't catch up on them :))))) Regards
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    Its MONDAY 2-28-05, weekend modeling accomplishments!

    Greetings all :) Well finally I can join in again on this thread. After spending a number of weeks developing the history for my new fictional railway.. The Great Western Railway of Canada, I had a free weekend this weekend and spent the whole weekend on starting the new model... 2 14 hour...
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    Proposed bench work?

    Looks good Chris :) Now I have a feel for HO gauge and spce requirements, it looks like with some suitable scenic treatment, you could easily get your main line through an urban setting system in.. I guess you will be doing a roundhouse off the main line as well to store all those lovely...
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    Undec bodyshells, stupid question.

    Greetings all :) okay.. stupid question for the day... It seems to me that if you buy an Undec bodyshell, it means you will be painting it. Therefore, why does the manufacturer STICK the window glazing in with liquid cement around every edge of the clear plastic welding it to the...
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    CTI & Signals

    Hi :) I use Sunrise N gauge signals, but the make is not important, as CTI does signal control boards in Common Cathode, Common Anode and Bulb formats... To save money, you need to make sure that all your signals are the same otherwise you may find you need multiple signal boards, which will...
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    A new railroad is born

    Thanks for the comments all :) OK, heres the history so far.. I have seriously mixed fact and fiction here to try and get a good historical basis for the railway, and answer some of the ideas posed by Val and others as to "What is the basis and location" :) The London and Gore Railroad Co...
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    A new railroad is born

    Greetings all :) okay, my model railroading dilemma.. As a new ex-pat in Canada, I have no history of the railroads here, or the technical details that growing up and modelling in the UK gave me for my hobby, so what's a person to do.. spend ages doing research, or... invent a fictional...
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    Need help on Harbor

    Hi:) Heres a couple of companies whose products I have used. Both do resin kits for marine items in HO.. http://www.isp.ca/sylvan/ is Sylvan Models from here in Canada the other is a Dutch company, but much of their stuff can be used for North America.. http://www.artitec.nl/ ...
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    BLI SW7 Problem resolution

    Hi Chris:) I would love to.. the thing is where I work is currently working on a project which is due to launch 1st March.. now, between you me and the gatepost, I honestly believe that in a week or two, that will become first week April, which means that I will be working every hour there...
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    BLI SW7 Problem resolution

    Hey Chris:) Will do:) What other LHS has a coke machine on-site so you can get a can and have a browse :) I have to remember to take my camera each time.. when I was up there Saturday, the barriers came down on the crossing so we all went to the window... a main line freight came...
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    BLI SW7 Problem resolution

    Hi Chris. I am using Railview in Markham.. 10 mins drive away from me. Georges' and Credit valley both take me over an hour to get to an a good day:) Regards
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    BLI SW7 Problem resolution

    Hi people.. interesting follow up no 2 :) I just had a call from the LHS.. it would appear that the sound cutting out may be a QSI decoder problem/feature. There was a modeller in this morning with his P2K GP9 with QSI sound, and he started saying.. its excellent.. but every now and then...
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    BLI SW7 Problem resolution

    Morning all :) OK here is my follow up report on last nights post.. This is a two stage operation.. part done by me, part done by my LHS. I only operate on DCC.. for me, the primary problem was the cut out on direction change. I did a full reset on the decoder and then changed CV3 and...
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    BLI SW7 Problem resolution

    Greetings all:) Welp, I finally got an email today with some interesting details. I pen this post with a little trepidation.. I want you to all understand I am NOT bashing the new switchers, but I am trying to pass on information in good faith from the distributors. Personally I love this...
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    SW7 re-paint

    Great Job Val :thumb: Hope my GTW one looks as good when done:) Regards
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    Lionel Strang vs Allen Gartner Feeder wire length

    Greetings :) The answer is try it and see... assume you can go with 3' feeders and run a short bus wire out and then run a feeder. Drop a quarter on the track.. if the booster shuts down, then its working fine and you can go with 3' feeders:) If it was 6" then my layout would be in...