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    double decker module

    Double-decker dreamin' Whew! Looooong time since I've been on here-- My 50' hallway is actually 40'-- here's one thing on my mind: Any ideas for a bridge(s) over a river(s) or a road(s)? I'm concerned about lighting in the back of it for such a narrow railroad-- also blending it in with some...
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    Shelf layout construction

    Plannin' on the Railroad. Fred, Thanks as usual. What annoys me about flex track-- though if made of fiber the ties are marvelously impervious to soldering (though not warping !)-- is that the track never really bends, it is just constrained by the tie strip. So you are always overcurving...
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    Latest Projects: A Boxcar & Two Gondolas

    "After you've read all of the advice, from all of the "experts", the best way to learn this is by doing. Start with a couple of cheap cars, used stuff is good, and try the techniques, not only to test the results, but also to develop your own way of using the resources. "Wayne" Thanks again...
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    All the best . . . Thanks a lot guys! And I'm glad to see this discussion on a more appropriate forum. (BTW, why are there two sets of login boxes on the pages--or is it my browser? Does one do something different than the other?) Just a few comments before I pass out: My shelf where...
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    light in locomotive help

    Posts and cleats. pgandw, How's this: Forget about moving the controller while the train is running-- trains will clearly have to stop at stations, sidings, etc. What I don't like is the idea of children running around with 110 volt power packs, plugging them in and taking them out-- what...
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    Latest Projects: A Boxcar & Two Gondolas

    Again, very very encouraging Dr. Wayne! Just a few follow-ups if I may: I assume after the rails and ties are painted the paint has to be removed from the tops-- and sides?-- of the rails? Is the reweigh/ repack data on one side of the car or both sides? Getting back to yr painting...
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    Latest Projects: A Boxcar & Two Gondolas

    Ties and gravel. Doctor Wayne could you tell me what kinds of ties/ gravel/ grass were used in that inspiring scene or anything else you would care to say about it? That is the scene with the gondola where you are explaining repack and reweigh data. Ties 8' or 8'6"? 4" or 7" thick? Individual...
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    light in locomotive help

    Shelf railroads? Fred, "My personal preference is for integrated (baseboard, backdrop, upper functional bookshelf with lighting under) bookshelf layout sections that can be wall mounted in the living room." I thought this meant you built a shelf railroad-- I guess it means this is your...
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    light in locomotive help

    Dcc??? Fred, Thanks so much for yr attention to detail. Are you and the other people on this forum some kind of engineers who walk around in white coats? I am impressed with yr knowledge and understanding. As for DCC-- gaaa! Chips inside the engines!!! And I think DCC might hold a...
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    light in locomotive help

    Just about what I wanted to know. Thanks again Fred. Not too much and not too little-- you are definitely on my frequency. Are you guys engineers or what? I am thinking about a shelf railroad more than fifty feet long, operated at times by children with their own trains. I am wondering if...
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    Latest Projects: A Boxcar & Two Gondolas

    The real story Thanks Doc, and everybody! I'm really glad I joined this site-- seems I'm getting more and wider information and encouragement than I could get from being a club member for a decade! I'm thinking maybe today if they wanted they could use something like the EZ-Pass that gets...
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    . Thanks Lester and Fred! Does DC stand for digital control and DCC for digital cab control-- I am only guessing! And in DCC is the handling of reversing loops any different than in plain cab control? Correct me if I'm using the wrong words . . . I'm not planning to have any reversing loops...
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    Latest Projects: A Boxcar & Two Gondolas

    Thanks, Tom for those weathered cars. I have an Athearn Lehigh Valley 50 ft. boxcar kit. One question, don't the workers wipe off some of the numbers so they can be read-- and if so, which numbers? Also, is that rectangle on your Lehigh Valley car (and mine too) a bar code? farnham
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    Tell me more. Fred, Yes I'm favoring fairly primitive railroading, so constant lighting would be about as far as I would go. Thanks for clearing this up. Just a few remarks if I may: Are you sure the one you describe with two diodes is the only one? It seems to me I built one or two of...
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    double decker module

    Double Decker? Yes I am planning-- or dreaming about-- a double decker pike along my 50 foot hallway and into the parlor in the front of the apartment. I think I'll start with one level, the lower one, and attach the upper level with risers later on. Also not the full hallway at first-- just...
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    Where are all the posts?

    Thanks cid! I'm going looking right now. farnham
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    Where are all the posts?

    Hi guys! Thanks a lot for the replies. I'm now on a new quest-- two major hobby centers told me there are no more INDIVIDUAL TIES being made! That annoys me. But also I just had a great idea to use them when I am giving out an HO rail car as a gift-- have the car on a piece of rail spiked...
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    Where are all the posts?

    Forum newbie but not model railroad newbie would very much like a tutorial on building scenery. He saw a beautiful one on using vinyl paste with newspaper but now he can't find it. He looked in the Academy or Tutorials and all he found was one tutorial about soldering, although it says there are...
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