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    Athearn in the N scale business ?

    Thanks to all The Gauge members who took some of their precious time to reply my thread I'll stay away from Athearn engines but it looks like their rolling stock is not bad. I have a Canadian Pacific GP9 engine, is it ( historically speaking ) OK if I couple it to an Athearn 50' Delaware &...
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    Lighting Buildings

    I'm modeling N scale but I'm very interested in that topic. Is it an ATX form factor computer power supply ? I've heard about wheat bulb, rice bulb etc.. what are they exactly ? are LEDs better ? Jacques
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    Linux

    Well Don there is some Windows "emulator" running on Linux but in my opinion are not worth the trouble to install. I use Windows exclusively for running games ( racing games such as F1 challenge 99-02 or Richard Burns rally ). You can request a free copy of Ubuntu here...
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    Athearn in the N scale business ?

    Just received my 1st issue of N-Scale magazine. I really like the mag . What attracted my attention is on page 2 a big ad from Athearn " Our new era in N scale" about the new 50' PS-1 double door boxcar. I don't have any engine nor rolling stock from Athearn. Is it worth to get some of those...
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    Linux

    I have 3 harddisks on my rig. Last week I "upgraded" from Windows 2000 to windows XP The 2nd disk has Ubuntu and is my main operating system. The 3rd harddisk has Linux Gentoo installed. I'm a homebrewer so Linux as in free beer ( and free speech ) is important to me. I started with Redhat...