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    Trip to Europe

    Hope the weather improves for you by then; Lots of roads closed due to washouts in S. Germany and Austria
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    Modern rail station

    Found this on Ebay, looks quite a good idea and would be more convincing in N http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-STYLE-MTA-SUBWAY-STATION-OVER-4-LONG_W0QQitemZ5993852068QQcategoryZ4730QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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    Modern rail station

    I spent too much of the last 40 years in various airports to want to start modeling them now I've retired. They are huge places, even without the runways, so where possible modern airports put a lot of things underground, including interfaces with other transport systems. You could show the...
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    Bye Bye F7!!

    Hi everyone I'm moving about slowly but not for long today, I couldn't get the article to post here but it can be viewed here http://photobucket.com/albums/y204/Badyin/E7%20kitbash/ Ian
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    Bye Bye F7!!

    To those who asked for the article Ian had an accident yesterday and will be out of things for a while. He will get back to you when possible. It's not too serious but he will be flat on his back for a couple of weeks ( and is already proving himself a real pain in the ass):wave:
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    Bye Bye F7!!

    I found a load of can motors and will probably use them. Pans I can use Lima etc. Thanks for the offer. I tried posting the article but it's too big. Anyone wanting further info cotact me and I will email it to them Ian
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    Bye Bye F7!!

    I was thinking of usindg an old Roundhouse boxcab frame in the "Little Joe" I thought, wrongly, Frateschi was part of Rivarossi Just found this on the net, it would save me a lot of work http://www.frateschi.com.br/produtos/v8_eng.php The files are too large mto load here unless I reduce the...
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    Bye Bye F7!!

    Quote;isn't that an exceptionally well thought out and done model. I went to bed about 2 a.m. this morning hunting through the junk in the cellar, looking for the bits to build some Unfortunately I need a few parts so I looked in the Walthers' Catalog - there are almost none of the bits I...
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    Bye Bye F7!!

    Just got the copies from NMRA; Will scan them in later this evening. Project was originally done with the old belt drive so there might be a fair bit of milling involved using a more modern drive system Ian Sparkie, check your yahoo mail, enjoy.:wave:
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    Bye Bye F7!!

    Minimum $5
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    Bye Bye F7!!

    Hi, I just contacted Kalmbach. Although they no longer sell the back number they can stillprovide photocopies of the article. Got to wait 4 - 5 weeks though
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    Bye Bye F7!!

    Is there any chance that you could make Bob Hegge's article available?
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    Looking for interior details?

    Preiser make a number of table sets; see Walthers 2005 catalog, page 989 Scale Structues also Walthers page 994 Dyna Models have a number of interior sets page 529. As well as the above a lot of other things in the book can be adapted as details
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    Road signs

    http://www.cotteradvertising.com/trafficsigns.html Lots of interesting signs, for all scales
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    Modular Railroading Resources

    Wow, the internet is a wonderful thing. I had been planning a couple of modules using the European FREMO standards but was not entirely happy with them . I've been given a lot to think about and it's now back to the drawing board. Thanks guys :rolleyes: - another year's delay in building it:cry:
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    Acela

    It was the HHP8, thanks I've now found it and got it on order Ian
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    Acela

    I read somewhere that Bachmann have released a double ended Acela engine. Can anyone provide further details Ian
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    Air Traffic Control tower conversation...

    60103 The guy's name is David Gunson. The CD is available here http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002MOJK/infoline0f-21/202-0624751-8615844
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    Tall concrete fence with barbed wire in H0?

    TEP 60 There was a HO prison announced a couple of years ago by Faller(I think) complete with escaping prisoners. Many years ago I worked in an Underground Air Defence Bunker and the only bit visible above ground looked like a small cottage - the fact that about 40 cars were parked outside was...
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    Air Traffic Control tower conversation...

    I retired last year after more than 35 years as a controller at Maastricht UAC and although they're oldies they still bring a smile. Here's a couple more, not in the best of taste I admit. There's another one about the Lufthansa 747 at Frankfurt who announced he had to return to the gate as...