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    Question for all you Canadians, (Americans too)

    In my travels back 'n' forth across this beautiful country, I found the greatest proliferation of "chip wagons" in the Ottawa/Hull area . My opinion is, go for it, it's your empire, if it looks right to you, Chip wagon chips are the absolute best chips anywhere
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    Layout (room) tour...with lots of photos

    Man I dig that groovy tie dyed kinda stripy efect you got happinin' with your backdrop.Nice railroad too.
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    goofy question?

    holder newt I wasn't dissing Dr. Wayne, just used him as an example because it happens that I always ckeck out his threads. Wasn't a complaint anyway just a "how come it does this?"
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    goofy question?

    I guess this is a part two to my question: how come only some of the threads are off to the side, almost all of Dr Wayne's are off to the right. If it's on my end why aren't they all like that{or not?} By the way thanks for the answer to part one, I actually understood that,
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    goofy question?

    I'm turning out to be a right slow learner when it comes to computers. My question is:how come some posts are kinda off to the side and you can't see the whole thing? I know what your gonna say ,just run it sideways with the little arrows at the bottom. Well I have little arrows at the side but...
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    Which HO Track do you use a majority of?

    Yes I use Atlas c-100 rail but I think if I were to start over I would use the 83. Like everything else when I decided to do model trains I jumped in full tilt,no research,just buy stuff and hope for the best,the trick is to get in too deep to back out,not that I want to quit, it's a great...
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    CNJ RSD4/5 Locos on the Hillside

    fantastic! I can't think of an appropiate superlative. hope the leading truck on the second boxcar didn't cause too much trouble when I was a child my father taught me some signals,for hot box etc, since nearly all my free time was spent around the siding. I don't remember any of them now.
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    What's Your Favorite Style of Diesel?

    I'm not too picky, F7or9 and pretty much any high hood road unit,run long hood ahead. Oh yeah it's gotta be in CN colours,
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    angle of slope

    I find it makes a difference if the track is straight or curved, it's really surprising how much you loose to friction in a curve
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    Surprise, surprise

    You want some 'lectric motors? Rip {gently} open one of those vibrating/heating seat covers from CTC.Tey have ,I think six motors,and yes they will rum in both directions
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    I was caught !

    Thank Odin for The Great Canadian Dollar Store, I'd be out of business without them
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    a first

    With a bit of luck{good} March 31 should be a first for me,I have been saving my bottle/can money for nearly a year{the only RR money I have}and on Mar 31 I hope to attend the Cole Harbour{NS}show and buy stuff I WANT not just what I need. This.will be a "detail run". So unless I run accross a...
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    More people That just don't get it..

    my two cents,as yet unflattened, goes like this.I got lotsa "discipline" when I ws a kid and I deserved all of it, I think it did me a lot of good and has a lot to do with my work ethic,honesty,dependability,etc.Those are traits I feel very few of todays youth are familiar with. I could go on...
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    How old are you? Revisited

    Whenever I see{hear} the word demographic I steel myself for a sales pitch. I know that's not the case here, I'm just sayin'
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    Walthers ground throws

    Has anyone used switch stands by ERIC?How realistic are they? Are they at least as nice as the one shown on Spitfire's photo?
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    Do CN freight trains have a schedule ?

    Sorry BT, it's TrainsCan that you can get the history by using the unit number
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    Do CN freight trains have a schedule ?

    I also too live only feet from the track{only in NS} it should tahe only a few days of watching trains and marking down the time and direction,The trains here are pretty close to the same time , give or take an hour. Myself I've gotten so I watch all of a regular freight but the intermodal,I...
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    looking for an idea - wire mesh strainers

    Check out the great Canadian Dollar Store, they should have different strainers, yeah for a buck apeace.
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    Model Photography

    I still take bad pic's , but their getting bettersince I {A}stopped using the flash and{B}got a tripod
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    Pine Straw in HO

    You could do either,for my hay{on barn floor}I just used it as is, for clumps of tall grass I dip it in thin paint then shove it through a styrofoam plate and put a dab of glue on the ends spray the top{above ground} with clear, works for me