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    HO bed room layout needed

    Hi all recently my wife and I bought our first house, I have a room in the basement 12 x 15ft with the entry door 2ft from the end of the lower right 15ft wall. __________________ | ...
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    Mantua 0-6-0 electrical help

    Hello all, I have been away from the trains for a while but now as the sumer season comes to a close i will be back at it. I was just doing some track cleaning and loco steaming. I recently bought a new Mantua 0-6-0 Tank switcher CPR for use on my transfer table, no matter how clean my rails or...
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    help with #505 Kadee coupler conversion

    Hi guys, I have a Rivarrosi 6 axel passenger car that i would like to install Kadees on, i allso have some kadee 36" wheel sets, any tips or hints on how to do this? and do i glue in the adapter? there are no screw holes in the trucks but the kit came with some screws othe then the coupler...
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    #4 turnout vs Snap switches

    I'm building some yard/ladder track im short on room as it is so i have to use sharp turnouts, Question is do I have to power the frog of the #4? or any of the other coustom turnouts? most of my exsperiance is with SnapSwitches. Sorry for the barrage of threads and questions, i'm...
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    spectrum steamers DCC ready

    I want to ask you exsperianced engineers before i go dissasembling new engines... I Have 2 bachman spectrum DCC ready 4-6-0's I'd like to know what model decoder i should get, am I looking for a DH123D, DH123P, DH123PS, DH163,P, PS, IP I'm totaly lost if have read the discription of each on...
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    Wire for a Wye

    Hi guys, I just want to confirm something. I'm progressing on my first layout and I have a yard and town at each end of my basement, and each town has a Wye for turning steamers around, I'm running DCC super empire builder which I installed near the middle of my layout so I get good power feeds...
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    dcc track bus length question

    if i have a 14ga solid copper track bus can i power it with my digitrax 5amp Ps and comand station (empire builder) from one end? or should i make it central. I'd like to have it at one end for closeness to my programing track otherwise i have to run another pair of wires from the center to the...
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    Trestle question

    Hi, I have to build 3 or so relitively small trestles on my layout, the largest trestle in real life is about 500ft long and 100 ft high it was removed when i was about 12 and i cant find a good picture of it around here but i know they were pile trestles no cement foundations. The question i...
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    Building a Canadian wooden grain elevator.

    Hi guys, I'm relitively new to this hobby but I'd like to show you my grain elevator, I started with a wood kit from Kanamodel and full size copys of blue prints I aquired from Saskatchewan Wheat Pool (35,000bu) and United Grain Growers (30,000bu). added 1.5 inches to the height of the kit and...
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    Need tips on Turf and grass

    Hi all, i have a layout underway and am using Atlas track on woodland foam roadbed ontop of pink 1inch hard styrofoam (so far so good), but when i spray my mix of white glue and water on the foam it tends to pull away from the smooth styrofoam surface and leave bald spots where the turf does not...
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    missmatched loco speeds

    Hi guys, i have 2 brand new bachman spectrum 2-8-0 consolidations with DCC installed, im just getting started with my Digitrax empire builder set and when trying out the Consist mode the 2 locos dont pull together as one increases speed much faster then the other and will spin its wheels as the...
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    Box cars the long and short of it lol

    Hi, just wondering about box cars in the 1925-1930 time frame here in canada, i would imagine they were all wooden at that time, for the most part im talking general freight/grain/ and stettlers effects, im looking for Canadain Pacific cars and they seem to be scarce,, could you buy flat cars...
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    look for source of Can Pacific steamers

    Hi guys, wondered if some of the more exsperianced modelers could point me to some Canadain Pacific steam for my 1924-1930 Saskatchewan canada layout, i'm looking for freight and mix freight motive power on a branch line, so i'm guessing 2-6-4, 4-6-0, 2-8-0 i would think, i've googled CP in all...
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    Joining Track

    whats the bests way to join atlas flex track? i plan to solder the joints were possible, but what do you do with the ties, notch them or remove a few??
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    New layout, ideas needed!

    OK, this is what i've got, This is the aprox area my parents will alow me to use without getting shot lol. any suggestions on how to best utilise this space, and still be some fun, i can have about 3ft accross the end, and about 2ft along the wall, around 32in min clearance beneath for...
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    Grid drawing

    Hey, i need a picture of just Grid paper or something to sketch out a layout idea with winpaint to post online. can anyone help me out, if i had a scanner id scan some graph paper , but then i'd have to find some graph paper, oh this computer age,, see the delema! i need like 38x25 squares
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    Hooked on Couplers

    Hi I'm relitively new to the hobbie, i have an assortment of HO rollingstock and locos, they all currently have i belive whats called Horn and Hook couplers, and i was thinking of switching them all over to something more realistic, and maybe some that could be used with in track uncouplers. any...
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