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It's nice to see the progress on your layout blue303. About the turnouts control panel, I remember seeing in the Kalmbach book " N scale model railroading getting started in the hobby" from Marty McGuirk that on his well known N scale layout Carolina Central he used an electrical box for the...

Thanks Charlie, Squidbait and Wayne for taking some of your precious time to reply. Boxcars 101 is e very informative link. I'm modeling the transition era so it looks like galvanized steel roofs is the way to go. I asked the question for weathering the boxcars roof. In the case of galvanized...

I used some Dullcote ( sp? ) and didn't have any problem at all ) see the picture ) Some experts even suggest to warm the spraycan in some warm water but imho I consider it to be dangerous. Jacques

RonP, don't worry if your thread is moved to the Off Topic subforum. Now that we know that some The Gauge members are interested in Linux, we'll check the Off Topic subforum more often. And the Linux thread won't be forgotten ( Linuxly speaking, go to the /dev/null file ). I posted on the Off...

When using a paint brush I frequently dip the brush in some clear water, it removes any dried paint from the paint brush. You should have told us that you have an airbrush. What brand of paint are you using ? If it is acrylic Polly Scale, don't forget to thin it before airbrush painting . 2...

Maybe I forgot to mention that my "Roadkill cafe" is an N scale structure painted with 2X magnifying glasses . At 59 who care . Have fun, it's your layout Jacques

I disagree, but it's your thread. Jacques

That sounds good, but in real life I never saw a house where the doors, windows, sills , trims , cornices etc.. are all of thew same color. Jacques

I think about it now, but wouldn't it be better to move that thread to the off topic subforum. ? I'm not the thread starter, so it is just a suggestion here. Jacques

As I mentioned earlier, I'm still running Ubuntu 7.10. I checked the installed packages with synaptic and did a search with "flash". it returned some other installed packages such as: gnash gnash-common mozilla-plugin-gnash I don't remember what I did exactly in order to have flash running...

Is the roof of 40' boxcars made of galvanized steel ? I know the roof of 50' boxcars is. Jacques

One more time, thanks a lot FrankG for sharing your top quality N scale signs. I like the Coca-Cola vending machine and I agree with MCL_RDG, the rack of suits looks great. Nice work Jacques

Could you please tell us why you opted for DC ? Jacques

I find that on the Ubuntu forum: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats It says to install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package. Or try that: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash Jacques

I agree Brakie, my 25" X 36" layout ( see picture above ) is divided in 4 blocks and I can run 2 trains . Jacques

Of course there is some C, C++ compiler. I use it to program graphics with the SDL graphics library. Simple DirectMedia Layer CSXect, to install the C and C++ compilers, install the "build-essential" package. Jacques

Loren, I'm not sure but I checked the Synaptic packages manager, my plugin is listed as flashplugin-nonfree v9.0.124. Now I'm still using Ubuntu 7.10 ( I always wait a couple of months before upgrading because I don't feel like a Guinea pig ). Jacques

I like the idea of drybrushing the road stripes. Jacques

I'm not at that stage yet. I'll paint my N scale roads next week. Soma Kalmbach book suggests to use a French curve and a fine-point paint pen. Jacques

Thanks to both of you Squidbait and Wayne for taking some of your precious time to reply. Interesting fact here, I was not aware that it wasn't until the GP20 came along in the '50s that locos were offered with a short hood and that GP9s get their nose chopped only in the eighties when they...