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Hey guys lets see pictures of your favorite steamers posed on a turntable....I'll start.

Afraid i'm in the same boat....champaine taste and a beer budget!!sign1

With Soundtraxx annoucing their new Tsunami micro sound decoder I'm seriously thinking of the Spectrum DCC ready 4-6-0 the 52"driver version...I'm betting that decoder with speaker should fit even the small pre-1900 tender...anyone else thinking along these lines? :twisted:

Jeweler's loupe.....theres a thought :twisted: will look into getting one of those.

Those look great Wayne,and hats off to you for getting the numbers on the headlight/back up lights...their even smaller , lol

O.k folks lets hear your best procedures for putting those itsy-bitsy numbers on the number boards of your favorite H.O steamer X2023 was my lastest and i thank the lord for my optivisorsign1 Using exacto knife' tweezers and lots & lots of patience,only problem is a bit of a shaky hand 'oh and...

Using candles to thaw out Dynamite?.....Holy Nitro batman :eek:

Huh! I've been in this hobby for 30 years and never came across a Hercules Powder co. tank car. Is it possibly a custom decal job? pretty sure Champ Decals had a set available.

Seem's to me way back in the day Train Miniatures released one of these cars but with fancier graphics. Really loved TM cuz they had a large selection of wood Beer cars that i enjoyed collecting Once ran a 25 car beer/wine consist through a town on a friends layout and the population on either...

Sounds great' nothing will ruin your painting experience faster than a air brush plugged up with 6 months of old paint. 2nd rule rule of airbrushing is to have a squeaky clean piece of equipment. I will go through the cleaning process as many times as it takes to assure my airbrush is ready for...

Given time and alot of practice using a airbrush will become second nature. Also remember that different paints require different mixing protocol's and techniques, practice'practice'practice....:mrgreen:

Absolutely fantastic restoration documentation on No.315 loved it and will follow it to their done....:thumb:

their Warranty is great but their a bit slo....6 to 8 weeks normally.....sign1

Exactly...by popped rivet i meant one that had been damaged/ came apart....popped out!

Ya know speaking of popped rivets i'm wondering if such a tool exists ,something on the order of a needle nose pliers for replacing rivets on valve gear thats already assembled and on a locomotive. normally we use a rivet tool and a small anvil and hammer which is fine for assembling valve gear...

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AAAAAHHHHHH!.......There's that Dreaded T word again!!:evil:

Thats a 1960'sAkane brass model of a DM&IR class M4 2-8-8-4 yellowstone. Believe it or not it was more powerful than the fabled UP. Bigboy. There are still 3 of them on display up on the iron range in northern Minnesota.

Duluth Missabe & Iron Range no.227 simmering quitely on the ready track at Proctor Minn.

Makes me think back to the time i walked into my LHS and found a box of H.O stuff on the counter with a sign saying make a offer. So I asked the owner of the store ....had known him for a number of years whats the highest bid so far? 25 bucks he says oh! says I....tell yeah what' I'll bump that...