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    Code 55 track

    I built a couple layouts with code 55 track twenty years ago. NMRA RP-25 wheels run on code 55 just fine. Your IHC cars, from my memory, will not. Bachmann comes with RP-25, but I always found them to derail - took them out of my collection. The Athearn are just fine with code 55. Charlie
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    Thomas The Tank Engine This...

    First, I bought the "complete Thomas stories" book (hardback) with all the original stories and illustrations as written by Rev Awdry. I read them to my son and daughter enough to memorize several of them. Second, the HIT videos that were interspersed in Shining Time Station were exact...
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    Starting Over With An HO Layout

    Az basement As a resident of Arizona, I'll point out that the problem is expansive soil. With little vegetable matter and very little airpsace in the desert soils, they expand when wet. Dig a basement and it will get crushed when the soil gets saturated (once a year). If you dig it when wet...