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Thanks all.... I don't know about you, but feedback is important to me. Model Railroader has a contest? Does anyone know if this is currently on? How does one enter? I would enter. That light in the first pic is from a single 400 watt bulb. It appears hazy because the camera captured it's...

Thanks for the kind words everybody. When someone posts a photo, I like to try to give feedback (not always possible), so thanks for taking the time with these. Trent, I'm very happy this was timely for you. Hopefully you can post a pic of Baily's when it's done. Here's one more, but I'm...

Hi all, Just sharing... CHEERS! aussie

Talk about an oddball paintjob! I made a checkerboard pattern of red and white on top of this old 40' box car... and labelled it for the Michigan Central Railroad. Come to think of it, that SOO going in is a product of my imagination as well.

Hi All, In each pic I add a detail.... Comments Welcomed,

I heard a rumor that they were going O.B. It seems very backwards to me to cobble up some kind of sound system for DC. What controls it? then when you install a decoder. Does it hafta be a sound decoder?!

How are you going to throw them?

I grind down the high end of a standard shim to the height of the roadbed. It aint' perfect, but it works.

I think the Blue line will be BLI's last gasp. Too bad, I got a nw2 with QSI sound and a decoder and it's a great little loco.

announce1 I knew that, but it SURE seems like deceptive product labeling, like the guy who tryed to sell me a Timox watch.

Don, BALONEY! I've never used flux, except in the core, and my joints are fine.

I can top that, I saw a Bachmann, I think, that was labelled DCC Plug Equipped what the heck is THAT 'sposed to mean? :D

Hi J and J, It means it has a decoder. You will have to do nothing special, other than maybe move a jumper on some brands, apart from addressing it with your DCC controller. Follow the instructions that came with your controller (DCC system) to do this and you should be off and running. What...

or... You could use the thinnest gauge solder you can find that has a flux core. That stuff works well for me.

Thanks Larry, This will be the second or third time I've had to do this on this one loco. The others are fine. I wonder if Atlas would give me new wheelsets for it?

Hi all, Here's a little mystery; I gapped the wheelsets on my H16-44 as close to perfect as you can get. That was about six months ago. Now, after an unexpected derailment, I checked the gaps to find three of the four wheelsets were again too tight. Gremlins? Has anyone ever experienced the...

Funny I should stumble across this thread tonight. I just bought a P2K 50 box and the very drop end gon you showed, Dr. The LHS was giving them away for 6.99 each. I thought I'd try them out and go back for more if I liked. The metal wheelsets alone are worth half that! Athearns...

I've always modeled military planes and vehicles as a kid. Running a model train was beyond my kin and my wallet. My dad was a big help but wecould never fully realize what I envisioned... I was ten or twelve. Now I am 45 and about three years ago I went into a hobby story to buy a Panzer Tank...

Well, on my layout the Alpena Limestone Quarry is about a mile from the Wyandotte Chemical... in reality they are 400 miles from each other, and I've got 67 camaro's next to signage that sez PEPSI SOLD HERE 5 CENTS..... Other than that... It's Perfec t