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    just finished a SP SD38-2

    awsome train!
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    A river runs under ,,over er have a look

    yep, theres a good few of them around! someone should model one of them and run afew trains under it!
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    two new trains among the platform renovation mess!

    ray, i seen your Atlas O scale Plymouth WDT in the other thread, and found the marx version of the same thing on e-bay, soo i figured i would share it with you!... only thing is that the price is a bit steep...
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    I have had a track melt down. Why?

    if anyone is planning a willy wonka or hersey's chocolate rail-road layout, you got your technique, it does look like melting slabs of of chocolate
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    wiring up a LED light?

    how hard is it install all that and whats the price range on everything??
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    wiring up a LED light?

    full wave rectifier.... sounds like something the aliens use when obducting the people in plasticville :eek: i learned the basics of electricity in physics one year but i'm almost clueless to everything you just said
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    wiring up a LED light?

    typo on my behalf, i wrote the numbers into my cell phone and my phone says 16, soo i just missed a key when copying it into here :D soo 5-16V
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    A solution to that pesky ground foam...

    i hope your railmen know what they are doing!! that spray better be non-toxic, cause you dont want the fume vapors getting into the engine and making the engineer and them get a little sick, now do you? lol OSHA might have something to say about that!
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    wiring up a LED light?

    lol, i honestly dont even know the power stuff off the top of my head... i just know it's the same as lionel type stuff... the transformer i mostly use is actually a lionel one... i just took a peak and its 5-6 volts and it says 90watt... it's one of the ones with 4 connectors on the top, U, A...
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    wiring up a LED light?

    i'm not wiring it into anything... just stright to the track pickup and grounding to the wheels.... is the resistor needed to run the light?
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    wiring up a LED light?

    okay, i want to get a nice big bright light in one of my marx... i know i'll most likely get the power from the pickup and ground it to the wheels.... i'll be running on standard lionel track and a 50watt transformer.... i have a slight idea of how i want to do this.... but can anyone...
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    I have had a track melt down. Why?

    i havn't been in toronto since about 8 years?? i did the skydome tour while they were setting up for a rolling stones concert and went up the CN Tower... i might have to stop again for that pint :D btw, this is my 200th post :D :D :D
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    ChChChChanges......

    can you post the trick to changing thread titles in here???? i remember i had difficulty changing it before...
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    I have had a track melt down. Why?

    how old is the track... and how long did it take to melt? if you sat a lamp or spotlight next to it... the heat from that would do it... given the melt i can almost visualize the location of the source if it was heat related... soo i wouldnt be suprized if it was a lamp or lighting...
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    A few more loco's from the paint shop.

    very awsome! hairdryer motors and cd drive motors!?! now thats i'mpressive!
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    two new trains among the platform renovation mess!

    yep, they actually will run on lionel transformers and track, i have a older 50watt powering the outside track so i can also run lionel on it... on the far right of the platform is my lionel stuff, the two platforms were seperate before but now there innermixed a bit i was scared of the...
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    October, we have a winner

    N scale? that the inch tall ones, right? thats insane detail for that scale!
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    two new trains among the platform renovation mess!

    sorry for the mess, i took down everything soo i could add more and double the size of the platform... i'm moving all the track around and adding afew more tracks soo i can run more trains... here's the two new Marx loco's i got with abunch of new cars
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    October, we have a winner

    awsome picture dan! is that a HO scale?
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    October, we have a winner

    i went digging though the thread to find the pictures to look at, and Dan Crowley, your image link is dead... could you re-upload it and post it in here so we can all take another peak at it?