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    Spokane International RR

    an update for anyone interested, on the Spokane International RR......a move of house, the discovery of the [paper] contents of a long-lost box, and I have discovered two useful references to the above class 1 railroad. the first reference....a real dooozer...is an old photocopy of an article...
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    Old-style track?

    Thank you....I haven't been able to do a close-up comparison of the real thing.......and there ARE issues with Peco Streamline not actually replicating modern UK practices [post-1980's]....it being a primarily HO range....[ yet not even similar to protoype track in places like Germany!!] I...
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    Old-style track?

    Here in the YuK, the home of Peco, they offer a range of turnouts in their code 83 trackwork. Having looked at this product line, I find it quite 'realistic' for modern, U.S. practice. However, what of the steam era? or the early 1950's? Or even the '60's? Short of making my own...
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    The ill-forgotten Goose

    excellent idea.....are they costly? what is the alternative? flywheels? extension leads? (don't larf.....there WAS a prototype......darn mexico way I recall.....a mining operation usually worked off overhead with a trolley pole....but where the wires ended, the loco was plugged into a...
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    The ill-forgotten Goose

    it's a motorised bus......or lorry.....or charabanc....by Pierce-Arrow....or somesuch...... Like the Yuk version, the Colonel Stephens Model T railcars....they're 'done to death', in my view....a certain 'lack' of variety? (which is why I shy away from US narrow gauge?) now, buy a plastic...
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    Surprise, surprise

    telephoon wire is, however, fragile, be warned......but useful for lighting buildings..or even making street lights work.....since it is so small in diameter (if somewhat gaudy)..and isn't 'springy' it can be glued up around walls, inside posts, or even up the inside of plastic angle, to light...
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    Spokane International RR

    DRS 6-4-15......I have a piccy in a book....UP loco used on SI (UP subsidiary at the time...around 1960's??) ALS616's....again UP sourced VO-1000......?? plus a HH1000......ok, so Spokane International was not an entirely separate entity then, but..... I'd like to source some steamer...
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    Spokane International RR

    plus some weird Baldwins....and an S1 or two these I have gleaned from my UP roster books.... incidentally...my references to the Pend Oreille....? Way back in the 80's and early 90's, when actively modelling US stuff, my prime RR was sadly UP.....easier to get info on for a...
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    Spokane International RR

    Help...can anybody provide info re sources of information, and photographs if possible, of the Spokane International RR? All I can find are the odd photo and reference in various MR's, books etc...and a tantalysingly incomplete article on the road from an ancient Model Railroader....incomplete...
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    Surprise, surprise

    as a cross-reference to the large scale forum....a cheapo way into large scale garden railroading is to utilise mechanisms from the likes of radio controlled cars etc.........can power a ''trotting turkey'' or two?
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    Surprise, surprise

    Long time ago..I read an article ..possibly in MR....about motorising small HO lorries for ro-rail, using the 'vibrator' motors from old pagers?
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    MDC Shay part

    heck, its your model, you can have whatever you like? who is to say it wasn't welded up at some later date? Rivets are easy....suggestion being, an overlay of thin plastic sheet, embossed from the blind side using a blunt pointy thing? (do it on a 'soft' or 'forgiving' surface...ie not the...
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    MDC Shay part

    I'll dig out my 3 truck boxes an have a look......although I suspect you might find one an awful lot closer to Kelowna than the YuK? (I'm persona non grata in that area...family reasons, usual sort of rubbish!) If all fails let me know, I'll post it if I have one
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    MDC Shay part

    as I recall...I haven't dug the boxes out..for good reasons....but the 3 trucker actually has a shorter rump? gluing this onto the back of the 2 trucker will make it look a bit 'close coupled?' As a suggestion.....why not simply build up a small box-like structure to sit over the top of the...
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    What do "WE" make with this and that

    hi Chris.... Sommerfeldt Eisenbahnmodelle GmbH - Oberleitungen Stromabnehmer is the factory site, in german..google the site for translation. There are quite a few UK suppliers..must be SOMEONE in Canada/US importing them?
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    Revelation and questions

    sorry this is a bit late..that's what comes of being a newbie.....but in addition to all the excellent info above, I'd like to suggest trying to find the following book.... ''Logging by Rail''..'The British Columbia story'....by Robert D Turner. It's published by Sono Nis Press, of Victoria...
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    Track for HO scale logging rail road?

    from PG&W.... this info might suggest a change of tune in my previous post.....I don't know enough of US logging to guess what poundage rail was regularly used...and am also prone to working in 4mm scale, which livens things up a bit..but........with the above engine weights, would code 40 or...
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    Oldies but Goodies. The Old Stuff.

    would it be a very early Athearn car?
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    What do "WE" make with this and that

    hi.............sommerfeldt make an excellent range of pantographs......probably German prototype, but what the....?
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    Track for HO scale logging rail road?

    hi....given the huge number of locos....why not build a small 'module...maybe a foot wide, coupla feet long or so......of a loco maintenance area? A shed or two, fuel, water, the odd repairs, maybe some sort of flimsy hoist......and try doing your own trackage? keep it simple, a couple of...
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