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    Idea in the works

    I also posted this in the N Scale forum. This is something that I saw on a website that looked like an interesting design. I believe that it is a model of the Keddie Wye what does everybody think? This is a drawing of what the Trackplan would be: This is what the original looked...
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    Idea in the works

    This is something that I saw on a website that looked like an interesting design. I believe that it is a model of the Keddie Wye what does everybody think? This is a drawing of what the Trackplan would be: This is what the original looked like completed (on the site where I found...
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    Looking for Magazine

    I am looking for a copy of Model Railroader from September 2001. Specifically the article on an building a N-Scale Layout in a coffee table. Does anyone have a copy they could scan and send to me, or atleast scan a few pictured of what they had as a completed project? Jacob
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    Whats your opinion.

    I just threw this together during lunch, and wondered what everyones thoughts were. Does this look like something that is doable? -edit- Any suggestions are welcome. I have another drawing that I'll upload after I get home from work. I added a small industry spur in the middle, and...
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    Possible Coffee table Layout

    I am thinking about building a Coffee Table Layout for my next layout. I am thinking about making it 26" x 50" which is about the size of our current coffee table. Attached is what I am thinking about using. I got the Track Plan from "Mike's Small Trackplans", it is his 2x40007 plan that I...
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    Husky-stack Question

    Over the weekend, I purchased a Roundhouse Husky-stack car at a train show that had some slight damage, some of the hand rails are damaged. What would be the best way to recreate these, should I just use some thin wire and paint to match, or is there some other method that would give me a better...
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    Buildings - Where to Buy?

    I'm looking for a little help here. I am currently building my first Layout, Basic Loop of track that can with my Kit, and need to get some building to add to my layout. I am concidering building the Carolina Central Layout next, so what ever building I build, would need to be used on that...
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    How to Join track Sections?

    I am working on my first basic layout (Just the oval of track that came with my set, and was wondering, when techni everyone uses to join their track, Do you solder your track together, then glue to Roadbed, or jus tuse the rail joiners and nail the track down? On this one I used the Rail...
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    Flextrack

    I would like to know is there is a difference in rail size between Atlas Super Flextrack #2500 and Life-like Flex Track. Someone I work with has just given me 5 pieces of each, and I just wanted to make sure that they are compatible befor I start trying to assembly a layout using them. Jacob
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    Buildings

    Does anyone know where I might be able to find some plans for building in N-scale online the I might be able to download? Jacob:confused:
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    Plaster use

    I am not sure where this should go, or really a subject for it, but here it goes. I am wondering if it is possible to this down Joint Compound and use it to mold some ojects or use it with papertowels as overlay on foam to make some mountains. I just finished remodeling our bathroom, and have...
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    Carolina Central

    I was wondering if anyone has built the Carolina Central layout that was in several issues of Model Railroader, and also in the Model Trains Step by Step special issue. I was looking over this layout and have decided that I am going to build this as my first layout. I was transfering the pattern...
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    Help with First Layout

    I am considering building my first layout. I have come up with a drawing of what I would like to do, but am having trouble trying to put it into the Right Track software that I downloaded. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Comments are always welcome. Thanks, Jacob I have some layout...
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    Help with First Layout

    I am considering building my first layout. I have come up with a drawing of what I would like to do, but am having trouble trying to put it into the Right Track software that I downloaded. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Comments are always welcome. Thanks, Jacob