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    Scenic & Relaxed Update - First Train Run!!!

    Is this outside? The light makes it look really good and realistic. It would be really hard to get that over head pic inside too ;)
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    What can i use to mobel rebar

    What about a thin, low test fishing line? I have seen rebar in sidewalks, exp areas that have a big problem with the ground heaving from frost. that way, even if the concrete breaks, the rebar will bend and hold the sidewalk together. As for a spell check with Firefox, you can install the...
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    Started......

    Looks good there, reminds me of my layout. Wood, blue foam, and tracks ;) I like you menthod of figuring out your track layout.
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    10% off at eBay

    Awesome, I just used it on a model kit of the HMS Bounty and it worked! Only saved me like... $4, but still, that is better than paying $4! Thanks!
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    Hoping to start a new career

    Next year I am getting my A-Z lisence and doing a year of longhaul with my father (A is Tractor trailer, and Z is airbrake endorsment). We are going to do team for a year, proably a produce run between California and BC, maybe do a few loads into Texas that that region. I know locally you...
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    What is this train hauling?

    An oil refinery cracking tower was my first guess, it looked familure from a documentary I had seen about super heavy weight cranes, in this case, a massive containerized crane that was shipped in on something like 25 rail cars, and it was used to life a simular tower at a refinery in Nova...
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    trees and water

    I am not sure what exactly 'PVA' glue, is, I think it is white paste glue IIRC... but no, I don't think you can. Envirotex is a specialty product used as a lacquer substitute, I think 1 layer of Envirotex is equal to 7 coats of lacquer... or something like that. I am pretty sure you can get...
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    chck this out

    Maybe amazing, but not worth $18k. $3-4k maybe, but not $18k. There is what... maybe $2k at most in materials, so the guys time is worth $16 000? When my layout is complete, and if I dont want it anymore, I might sell it for... $500, not including my locos or rolling stock.
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    Bird Flu - important update!

    12. If there is noodles and chunks of chicken in your urine 13. If you now cluck instead of snoring at night 14. A irresistable urge to head south for the winter 15. Rage at the sight of a shotgun loaded with a bb shot, or a bird dog.
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    how can add pictures to my thread

    The bad side of me wants to tell you to glue a photograph to your monitor ;)
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    Katrina/ New Orleans xmas layout

    Life would be so much harder if you had to take all the bad things 100% serious. Thumbs up to the guy who built it, thumbs down to the crapheads who wanted it taken down :(
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    trees and water

    Here is one for trees, I havent tried it yet, but I might... http://www.the-gauge.com/thread9479-ho-hon3-trees-are-thousands-.html and one for water http://www.the-gauge.com/thread5611-water-poured-its-a-river.html
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    Someting odd is going on

    You vapourized your neighbourhood in a uncontrolled matter/antimatter reaction? Another cause for a delay could be some new interferance in the cable from the source to the second TV, especially if the second line is really long. Maybe the cable cought on something, and the mesh shielding...
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    Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

    Thanksgiving...? Wasnt that like a month ago? oh, hang on. The American Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving, hope you get bloated on too much Turkey and stuffing (I did)
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    Resurrecting a dead layout 30 years later

    Welcome to the forums! 1) If you dont plan on moving it ever again, then staying with what you have is fine, not a big deal. If there was one really good reason to scrap what you have and start fresh, would be the fun of doing it all again. 2) That would alter the clearance of your tunnel...
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    Model Power FP-7s?

    Train set version. I didnt want it, but my Dad was itchin to get anything that moved, and the set was on sale for $65cdn. Waste of $ if you ask me, as I had 3 loco comming in the mail, and we were buying track at the shop that day. The only thing we needed in that set was a transformer, and it...
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    Model Power FP-7s?

    Ummmm... I am not an expert, so here is a critique based on my other engines. It is heavy because of its diecast shell. It is very powerful and has great traction, but it is a HUGE power hog. With my MP SD7 on the track at the same time, the SD7 can barely draw enough power to move. It is...
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    First pic of my first layout

    Wow, you can actually wait until Christmas? No one can buy anything for me... it I see something I like and want, I go and get it as soon as possible, be it May or December :D I have been threatened on several occasions not to buy ANYTHING from November to the end of December! I think I...
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    Model Power FP-7s?

    I have a Canadian Pacific FP-7 of this type. Heavy, and kinda over-powered IMO.
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    Canadian online retailers

    CSX-er: Thanks, they look good. galt904: I am about 30 mins away, but thier hours seem about as random as lightining strikes. Third tuesday after a blue moon before a asteriod strike, or by appointment. I am sure it is better than that, but that is what I remember, and that it dont...