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Okeedoke...yep, you are right...hm... I'll try some experiments and get back to y'all. VGN

Hi How about thinning those magnets down? A belt sander, a fine file, a fine grinding wheel, hmmm....I'll likely be facing the same prob. soon...I use the same track and have bought some Atlas magnets...I have some ready mades, but plan to put in some short sections ahead of a few yard...

Hi Welcome to the gauge If there are more than one hobby/train shops in your area, I suggest checking them all out before you buy anything. I've found a vast difference in what's available, customer service, staff knowledge, price etc. There are now only two 'train shops' in my area (No...

Hi Shamus!! Glad you're home. Still hoping you'll feel better. ...Hmmm... aren't you celebrating " The Festival of Lights" a bit early!??? :D some of the trees have found a nice home on the hills of Sonoma County....Model Railroad Society Layout, that is. thanks again. VGN

Hi shamus Sorry to hear of your 'dizziness'....Hope they find a treatment at least. Me...I'm facing another catheter ablastion for a cardiac arythmia..."atral flutter"..had the first one in '95..was supposed to "100%currative", but now it's a different chamber in my heart that's whacky !...and...

..."take th' train....it's jes' pullin' in on track 9. Then we c'n go t' Philly to see Uncle...."

Hi Rory, Have you checked all your wire and connectionss under the foam? Perhaps the pressure of the foam, or a tiny bit of moisture or debris is 'shorting' somewhere.. I know the foam is pretty lightweight, but so is hook up wire... or maybe you have metal contact somewhere along the...

Hi Andy Simple...I have this little man, about 3 1/2 " tall...he just walks under the layout, across the table top, and pulls the wire where ever I tell him...he had a bit of a time handling the drill to pumch through the 2x4 'runners'.... ;) I have a true table top layout a ..4x8...

..jumped across the board to the other slow coach...headed out of deepest africa with a cook named...

OK story lovers, here we go again. This time, all passangers should be existing fictional characters, as outlandish as possible, preferably, not expected to be on a train, any time, any where, and some how fit the description "Slow"...let's be decent to handicapped persons, though, OK...

Take a ride on "The slow Coach" ..take a ride on "the slow Coach", leaving shortly on track 9...

All aboard! thanks Dave...I love being a guest...but it's getting to be fun being a 'senior' too :D...me a Granddaddy....what a concept!!! So, Jimmy, check out the new story thread...Once upon a Train 2,"The slow coach" (Give me few minutes to come up with story perameters and lead in...and...

We have several tunnel sections on the club layout, two at one end and one at the other. Two of them lead down to a lower level staging yard. as in real life they are a means of going under "mountains". My 'plan' for my N layout includes at least two tunnels, both based on prototype...the...

off to the P.O., Ho, Ho! Hi shamus,thanks for the welcome 'home' I'll be off to the Post Office sometime today...we had a 'hold' order on our mail while we were gone. I added a high end coal hopper to the Lost Virginian Railroad from a little trains shop in Cottage Grove, Or...I'll be goin'...

Let's find out if VGN is still a 'guest'.

Hi Bob, and everbody.. Me too! No scenery, yet. No buildings. Yet...but I have a great time runnin' MY TRAIN!!! my loop-d-loop switching 'layout' is wired, 6 remote turnouts operational...and I have a new VGN Trainmaster and some new VGN boxcars added. My little 'consist' is 15 cars long...

wt&c... I'll be prayin' for dryer weather for the Mountains of Home.... I wouldn't stay along a River with forcasts of heavy rain ever again...once was enough for me. But if it's home, well, I gues you do what you have to do, just like we did in Monte Rio along the Russian River in Feb. '86...

I'm glad somebody mentioned VIRGINIAN...I was starting to feel forgotten!! Railroad names are a big part of the whole mystique, I think....and the letters that represent them!!B&O,C&O, N&W, AT&SF, NYC (which of course, also signigfies 'The City')NKP, SP,UP, AMTRAC(oops, how'd that get in...

thanks for your kind thoughts, felllas. I should clarify one part of my original message...no one of my direct family still lives in Mullens and my grandparents have all 'passed away', beginning in '75. But there are deep personal connections for me there, just the same, and I have to admit...

Sunday before last, the small railroad/coal town of Mullens, West Virginia was hit by a devastating flood. Much damage, including the small train museum, and the house my Grandparents had on Front St., along the Guyandotte River. If any of you are persons of faith, please pray for the folks...