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Hello Frank, There is one useful thing you can do with that extra 12 volts that hasn't been mentioned. A light bulb that lights up the controller area and both makes it easier to see and lets you know that it's switched on. Of course only an idiot with half a brain would start ripping out...

Hello Scottg28, I had some 10 watt curly fluorescent screw-ins but have recently changed to the loop style reflectored floods and am very impressed. They take quite a few moments to come up to full intensity but they are very bright and barely get warm. Mine are 15 watt, a half dozen will...

Thankyou MM, I too have that 4-6-0 woodburner and have been resisting the temptation to add the necessary details. I'd love to see a picture of your Cannonball pulling in to the Junction. Hi N Gauger, I didn't get to see all of those shows first hand in England so some of my memories are...

Hello Cid, Yikes! I didn't mean to have you change stuff. Yup, I know it is a joke and I also agree it has a nice 'ring' to it and is definitely more amusing. I prefer the "Nil Carborundum Illegitimis" but please feel free to dangle your nominative, if you wear a big grin when doing so. I...

With apologies to Cid - Warning! Latin content I know it is considered extremely bad form to correct someone's English spelling or grammar on an international list and I agree with the common sentiment that only arrogant insensitive self styled elitists deign to try, however, I am unsure of the...

The trouble with an open forum that lets anyone in, is there is always some nutter sticking his oar in making useless unhelpful comments. Allow me to contribute..heehee. A 35mm camera with snapshot film is about 90 megapixel. The current state of the art Digital Cams that are commercially...

I don't know if they are MR terms but I do know if I hear them in the train room they make me shiver like a freshly shaved poodle on the banks of Lake Michigan in early February. (Will Durst) 1) Woops! 2) I thought you had it. 3) Was I supposed to press record? 4) Is that supposed to happen? 5)...

Hmmm, Mum does all the work, Dad gets the congrats and Erin gets the Ooohs and Aaahs. Well done Mike, I think all 3 of you are very clever and deserve a round of applause, Mrs Mike especially.

My freshly home made decalled Climax and bobber suffering from sorry trick shot photo effect....wafting smoke across the layout. I built the loco but anything interesting in the background is Shaywen's work

Re: Absolutely SUPERB!! Great stuff Jim, I'm desperately short of these non-revenue mow stock and now I don't know if I'm inspired or overwhelmed. Thanks for showing them to us. Errol By the time the loggers got their camp full of all the good looking equipment the area was mostly clear cut...

My kid brother had a computer/gaming store and lost his front window and some nice toys to a smash and grab. He got his pal to make him a steel bar window cover to theft proof the store at night. Being a good pal he put some effort into it and built a very attractive grille work with curly...

Hello Dash, Your creativity and inventiveness is certainly to be admired but I am endeared with your obvious geeky, techno-junky, pack-rat side. I have a modest collection of ancient artifacts from the early years of computing. A couple of PETs, a motley collection of Atari 8bit's and much...

I didn't post my soap name for what to me was an obvious reason. Lorraine Ridge (my dad was born when my grandad was beating up on the bad guys du jour in Alsace, don't know why I got it, I'm sure it wasn't because of the fun he had using it.) Not as bad as Tootie Liverbrain. The soap names...

Hello Jon, Awhile ago on CBC radio the host was talking about Soap Opera names and they suggested to listeners that they could determine their own Soap Opera name by simply using ones middle name as 1st and the street that one grew up on as the surname. The result for me was much more...

Hello Neil, Yup, Total refocus, Not necessarily what I was intending to do but that fun little camera was annoyingly quick to point out all those things that just look wrong. I didn't build to photograph but I have rebuilt to accomodate the ever growing camera collection. Camera blocks to...

Hey guys, I know it's late but happy St David's to all with any claim to Welshness. Hope you all enjoyed a Welsh Rarebit and had a nice leek

Hello Shamus, The new traincam camera that we purchased was $120 CDN, about 50 quid. This included the camera, receiver and power supply. It has no audio and the camera LEDs aren't hooked up to the power leads, this will be remedied. A change of plan for this camera is to build it into a...

Hello Neil, Shamus, Raildog, If this digital/film debate gets any more heated and you guys continue firing off pictures at one another just to prove your points, I can tell you that I for one, am enjoying every minute of it. This could be an argument that everyone will enjoy watching.

Hello Rich, Great stuff as always. Please, I sincerely doubt that showing us weathered models of this quality would ever get you described as a bandwidth 'hog' no matter how many pics you show. Keep 'em coming.

Re: Anybody Want To Try ? And sharks become quite docile if turned upside down when they can be manhandled with impunity. That's nice. Some things are best left to professionals. If some prehistoric eating machine wants to be somewhere I can find somewhere else to be. I love the wilderness but...