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    lighting

    how do you light your platform? i'm not talkingabout the lights on the platform, i'm talking like on your ceiling, to illuminate everything?? whats the best way to light em up? all my trains are going to have a brand new room, and i figured i better figure out what i'm going to do...
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    Blue locomotive

    althought i'm not quite the biggest fan of repainting vintage stuff, i do agree the results can be cool, i was going to post a reply to this the other day but didn't get a chance, and i just ran across this blue train thing today, soo i came back and thought you might enjoy taking a peak at it...
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    Photography tips and tricks...

    pretty cool, i actually was messing around with taking photos with the lights off too i put my camera on a tri-pod, then i checked and made sure all options were on manual and were how i wanted, then i snapped a picture of the spot without the train, with the train off, and then once again...
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    Self editing of Rail photography ?

    it's one of the bigger HP printers, forget the model for sure... just under a year old.... i believe it was like $999.... it does automatic double sided printing, will print nice and fast... etc... and with ink, it has five cartriages, C, M, Y, K, and B... all five cost like as much as the...
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    Self editing of Rail photography ?

    printers print in CMYK colors and monitors work in RGB... also monitors light images from the rear; print outs are solid images that you see from the light reflected off the paper, from a source infront of or above the picture...... basically what i'm saying is that they are two totally...
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    Self editing of Rail photography ?

    sorry in advance for blabbering on... i just read my posts and realized i hit on like twenty different topics... sorry :D i'm camera crazy, i'll go though a pile of batteries and i save every photo, when i need more space on my hard drive i'll burn them to CD's... i try to take good...
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    Yahoo sites

    the group may be old and nobody might even use it anymore.... i made a group in that before and it died rather quickly, havn't opened it since a week after i made it...
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    Congrats To the Steelers!

    seatle fans:
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    Congrats To the Steelers!

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    Congrats To the Steelers!

    CLEVELAND SUCKS!! we steeler fans have a series of songs, all named "CLEVELAND SUCKS!!!!" ... they are nothing more than people screaming "CLEVELAND SUCKS!!!" over and over again, to a musical tempo!!! ... and since i know you all will enjoy hearing a CLEVELAND SUCKS song, here's a link...
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    GM Sign

    http://www.futurliner.com/index.html if anyone watched barret jackson, they know what this is... the thing has a nice big GM logo on the front, not quite what you were looking for, but it's of the style and era
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    mono-rail

    oh, i forgot to mention, they are upgrading all the trains with a windows based computer control thing with touch-screen controls too, according to the driver
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    mono-rail

    bump? 60 views, 0 replies
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    hehe...

    Steelers are going to the Super Bowl i suggest that maybe we add this smile into the smilies list?
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    Video Posting Forum is Open

    awsome, i remember thomas when they came out, we got a bunch of little trains around here somewhere, i never knew they made ones that ran in that scale! i posted a video from the front of a mono-rail train in disney, from in the driver's cabin... the video isnt among the best i took, i...
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    Marx 1998 UP Switcher. AC, DC? Horn? HELP!

    not to sure, i have a simliar marx switcher, but if there is a seperate unit inside of it, thats seperate than the engine, that might be the horn... maybe pop the top off and run it with it off and see if you can locate where the noise is for sure... you might just need to clean it a tad bit...
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    mono-rail

    i got to ride up front at disney's monorail, it was pretty cool, got to talk to the driver and all......... the video size limit kicked me hard in the ass, i couldn't upload any of the ones that turned out nicely, soo here's the shortest one that didn't turn out too good, for your viewing...
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    What does your first locomotive look like?

    i dumped all my uploaded pictures
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    life-like model trains

    if you take care of your stuff, i'm sure it will last nicely, they are a popular make and if they sucked, i wouldnt see them still in business my marx trains are considered "toy-trains" by people and hell, they have lasted 70 years and are still running strong without any problems what...