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    Recent stuff

    Hi Gaugers, :wave: It's been a few months since I've posted here. I've been away at college and away from my little trains. :( I visited a couple weeks ago and got something of a rude shock when I saw how drastically the forum had changed! :confused: :shock: :eek: I also found it...
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    Tender-driven locos?

    CNWman, that's an SP cab-forward locomotive! They were supposed to look like that!
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    WSOR JMA-16 derails!

    http://www.heartlandrails.com/photos/pbu.asp?Update=2/16/2007 :eek: This is the train that runs through my hometown of Stoughton, on the ex-Milwaukee Road line between Janesville and Madison. The good news is no one was injured, and no hazardous materials were involved.
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    Train Sim discussion group

    Foreign power on the Kalispell Branch Some "virtual railfanning" on the ex-BNSF (now operated by some shortline) Columbia Falls-Kalispell, MT branch. Here CP GP9 #1613, BNSF GP38-2 #2081 (one of the stock locomotives for the route) and WSOR GP35 #3501 haul a mixed freight southbound on the...
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    Tender-driven locos?

    It also depends on what is meant by "tender drive". Are the tender wheels the actual driving wheels, or is the motor just mounted in the tender with a driveshaft running to the locomotive to turn its drivers? I have an IHC 4-4-0 with the latter configuration that runs very well.
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    My loco Roster

    HMMMMM that C&NW GP38 #4623, C&NW O/L SD40-2 and Bachmann Consolidation look mighty familiar. O yeah, cos I got one of each of those! :)
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    How Do You Name Your Railroads?

    LOL good one Johnny! The MadCow! My railroad is called the Grovemont Rail Link because that's the name on the Bachmann lighted frieght station we bought when I was about six. It has secondhand equipment from a bunch of (primarily Midwestern, like C&NW and MILW) railroads and its job is to...
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    WSOR Prairie du Chien subdivision excursion 2001

    This train ran from Middleton-Mazomanie, Wisconsin in June 2001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmbuL4gkW_k
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    Scale grade crossing signal videos

    HO scale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NK7Jwbp_9E S scale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dbK34DUeJc G scale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cry8bk6P6B8 More to come.
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    Video of Layout

    Youtube problems For those others here that post videos on Youtube, have you ever encountered this problem? *The video starts uploading fine, you can see the red bar quickly moving to the right *Then all of a sudden it stalls, and will stay there forever unless you intervene. For some videos...
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    Track codes

    Fairly elementary question, but I don't know it because we've only ever used one track code and I don't remember what it was when we first purchased it. What's the difference between the different track "codes", 70, 83, 100 etc? I know it's in the size of the rail but which way do they go, from...
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    Video of Layout

    Got my first model railroad-related clip online... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FcPCiwN1mY Enjoy, although I warn you the ending's not pretty.
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    Engine Pics & Train Stuff...

    I want me one of those! Who makes it, and how long are they going to be making it?
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    11 - 10 .... What's your secret

    True story: A few years ago, a mouse that was scurrying around the basement shimmied up the power cord and onto the train table. It began crawling onto the train parked on the mainline, so of course I switched on the layout and started up the train. Needless to say that mouse did not stick...
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    My first submission to RXRSignals.NET is up!

    I emailed these to Mike last week, and he put them up yesterday! http://www.rxrsignals.net/Wisconsin/Green_Bay/ The main site: http://www.rxrsignals.net/ What is one of the most frequent places to watch trains? Grade crossings of course! Mike's Railroad Crossing Website is a photographic...
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    My first train set...........

    The nearest coupler visible on the boxcar is a knuckle coupler, the main advantage of those is that they look more realistic than the horn-hook couplers that for a long time were default on factory-new rolling stock and locomotives, although that is beginning to change. All of the couplers on...
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    More railroading videos

    Got a couple more of my train videos on YouTube today. WSOR freight from March of 2002: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-d1mHDY6nM The 2' gauge Rock River Cannon Ball: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUJx6W47DyE
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    Railfanning on the WC

    That's interesting, I thought the flashing ditch lights were noteworthy. I'm used to first spotting approaching trains by a steady "triangle" of light formed by the main headlight and the two ditch lights. Anyway, I've finally got the complete video online...
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    What personalities would your engines have?

    Ok I admit it, I've secretly always thought it would be fun to do this. What personality traits would your locomotives have if they could talk and think, like the characters in The Railway Series/Thomas the Tank Engine? You can give yours names if you want, although I haven't. Diesel engines...
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    Post Your STEAMERS!!!

    Pics are scattered all around The Gauge and I don't have any new ones (at college and away from the layout for the last 2 months) so I won't repost them here. I am working on getting some stuff on Youtube though and I've got a camcorder videocassette here with some footage of a couple of my...
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