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    last summer at steamtown

    some pics from a trip to steamtown in Scranton pa. I wanted to post more , but the pics won't upload, ant I only seam to be able to post 2 at a time.
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    backdrop painted in the train room

    clouds I may hang a ufo as a joke after I do the bench work.
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    backdrop painted in the train room

    clouds I air brushed polly scale reefer white on to the wall, using stencels cut from heavy card stock. Then added shadows of earth, concrete, and csx tan (all from polly scale). Last I misted over the whole cloud a touch of white. The base color of the wall is flat Olympic Brand paint...
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    backdrop painted in the train room

    just a few pics of the partly cloudly sky in my basement.:rolleyes:
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    backdrop

    :thumb: thanks that was a big help.......
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    backdrop

    :confused: got any ideas for painting clouds with an air brush ???
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    deisel house exterior lights

    look into led's . you can get them in all different sizes and collors.
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    Basement flooded w/ all the rain!!

    :cry: the gfi probably triped from the moter load on the pump and not a short. if you remove the gfi and put in a single recptical with an in use cover in it's place it should not trip and will still meet code.:thumb:
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    carbon-black cars

    i had to reply to my own post because no one els did. o-well, kind of like talking to myself,
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    What's Your Favorite Style of Diesel?

    1st generation high hoods, rs's geeps sd's bldw's fm's alcos there all fine with me
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    carbon-black cars

    :wave: hay out there... any one built one of the rail shop inc. carbon-black cars ????
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    Steamtown?

    :wave: yes it 's dieseli powered, I beleave it's the reading and northern . they also service a few coal mines,cement plants, and a brewery or two. have fun.
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    Steamtown?

    :cool: if you have the time stop in at jim thorpe pa . it,s just off rt209 on the west bank of the lehigh river in carbon county. you casn see the old cnj station there and take a train up the lehigh on former l.v.+cnj tracks.
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    Just for fun, how strong is your engine?

    I built a engin for just this test, it's an SD 90mac in ho that uses 2 athern moters ,a nwsl re gear kit,and weighs just over 2and 1/2 lbs. I have not put it to a draw bar test ,but it did bend the rails on a turn out when it derailed on a club layout.
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    Why we see so many coal trains

    the cnj moved a lot more coal than that every day for almost 100 years.
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    locomotive current draw

    the motor should draw no more than an amp. touch it every so often to see if it is hot. if its to hot, drop a few cars. you can cook it if it stays cool
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    Vintage loco ID?

    :thumb: thats a varney drive so it might run , if it doesnt, melt it down as ballast foir a brass engin.
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