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Thanks guys i will be trying a number of those suggestions, i painted some the other day with a water based flat paint with hopes to kinda prime the surface. I'll let you know shortly

I know what the book says thats why i came to ask you fellows, I found one picture of my brother and i standing on the fire barrel platform, sadly it only shows the top 1/3 of the bridge taken from the riverbank, shows 6 round posts for the bents of the center section and 4 square posts for the...

yes, i have the book, nowhere in it does it show a square timber section built ontop of a round pile section, except footings built on top of buried piles...

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...

That is some project, Happy smelting!

I emailed the pool via there general contact address on there website, helped that my Uncle was a pool director for 30+ yrs :mrgreen:, If i had a big enough scanner or copier i would provide them. I'm just glad that im only building a pair of elevators the 40miles of line i chose to model had 19...

I'm shooting for nearly new as the line was built in 1925 and i'm modeling 1928,,,, but what can i guy do to make those paper shake shingles on a roll look a bit better, i thought about oiling them like i did the inside.

I get the idea but,, 1. glue/water mix does not lay even and seems to pull away from areas. i hope the paint primer fixes that. 2.when re-spraying glue it washes the turf off where it was and piles it up in a heap I bought a woodland sprayer thinking it was better then a spray9 bottle but same...

sorry it would help if i had spelled it correctly, lol a·brad·ed, a·brad·ing, a·brades 1. To wear down or rub away by friction; erode. See Synonyms at chafe. 2. To make weary through constant irritation; wear down spiritually

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...

I bought 3 sets of the CN Hudson in jan they were about 59.99 after new years. Very very smooth engines with smoke and all handrails and uncoupler handles. i'll be sad if theres none this year, good Canadian stuff is hard to find. speaking of canada i'd ask mr. president choice for a 4-6-0 CP...

Nope no clear film on this stuff, i just abraided some to be sure.

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...

ic your doing curves but Neat trick i tried for long straight sections like a yard, Too keep them straight while laying i lay a few 3ft sections upside-down and put a small blop of glue on the tie gaps all along, then stand the length on edge on a flat surface and let dry, you will have a...

Installing Dcc decoders just depends on the engine, The digitrax ones are nice and small and usually come with a 9wire harness that you solder to apropriate connections inside the loco motor, lights, pickups etc. has a plug on the other end to accomodate the decoder wich may be changed or...

i set them both to 28speed steps and now they seem to be good, maybe one decoder didnt like the 128 steps..... im new to DCC

dr. wayne how do you do it? i have just these 2, brand new right outta the plastic, one unlettered one #2526 that i will reletter. if i set them both on 18% speed one is noticeably faster, i will check them both at 100% and see if there top speed is diff or the same. will be a trick with a...

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...

Thanks again everyone. progress is slow too many things on the go, but its coming along. I'm going with new rolling stock and modern type couplers, do the knuckle couplers in the Athern blue box work with Kadee couplers? and do they work with kadee magnetic delay uncouplers because thats the way...

Yes thanks for the info