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    Super low-cost air brush

    This is off the topic at hand but. Nazgul, what is that groovy waterfall made of?
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    I've started the new section

    yeah, I like your van, may I suggest putting "glass" in th' windows? I did that to one of mine, used a cd case for glass. Makes a world of difference. I have not as yet figgered out what glues to use with what material and my windows went kinda' milky arround the ages(I used krazy glue)
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    factory smokestacks

    Darn nice modeling there EK! My dumb question is, are those coke ovens?
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    First Layout Need Help With Block Wiring

    I was in the dark when I started about three years ago and as yet hadn't found this site so i just made up sections a bit longer than the trains I was planning to run and isolated them with plastic joiners ,hooking up power by soldering wire (diferent colours) to metal joiners. Power is from two...
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    Oops

    nylon NYLON !!?? glad to see someone that thinks in the same timetfame.I get a kick outa the looks I get when I ask for a quart of oil
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    Hump Day; What Time Is It on Your RR?

    I'm runnin' early 60's because my favorite units are the early diesels like GP9's 'n 'RS3's & F's. Reason 2 m'dad worked on the section here for 26 years and I got to love the smell of grease and creosote What I find a bit funny is that I have to do a lot of research because I don't remember a...
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    School cars

    The seemingly never endeng series Great Train Stories has an episode on the school cars and if I have enough brain cells left it seems that there were also medical cars with travelling dentists. Couldn't do it now, they pulled out all the sidings!
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    How fast is fast on a forum

    'cause I'm back in the woods on dialup how do I know how fast anything is???
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    Heated switches

    Back in the 60's ,when the laid off all the sectionmen that had to camp out in little sheds and keep the switches clear ,CN converted the switches to heated units. Since I went west about this time and while I was away they took out the siding I can't tell you any more about it except they were...
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    Opinion on Bachmann E-Z Mate

    The EZMates I have came on the cars, I find they work well and match up to KD's but don't seem as strong,they seem to need a genteler touch than the KD's
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    Traded something old for something fairly new.

    relic running amuck??!! who have you been talking to??
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    Your Local Hobby Shop

    Due to a condition of near terminal poverty ,the oppressive price of fuel and the fact that the nearest "local"hs is arround a hundred miles away limits my experience but the two shops I have dealt with Georges in Dartmouth and Maritime Hobbies in Halifax have both bent over backwards to help...
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    midnight shift on the EG&E

    What can I say? Nothing printable would do it justice.
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    Foam vs Plywood - opinions please

    Me , I have three inches of foam on an open geid frame with two ft. centres made from 1x3. the foam is covered with cheese cloth painted with Pollyfilla. Since I had no idea what I was doing when I started , some of my layout is four feet wide with the track AT THE BACK in some places (that is...
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    What The Gauge is/is not

    can't add a thing,just a good 'ol Bluenose "right on !"
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    a newbies question

    My "empire" is upstairs in the garage, not heated , been there three years now and doesn't seem to have surrered any ill effects.If it matters i used sectional track and left the joints pretty wide (partly for the clickety clack) and only nailed it down where I had to. I bring my engines in in...
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    waiting their turn

    tou guys (you 'n' Wayne) blow my mind every time !Gives me something to aspire to.
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    Canadian Visitors to the Abandoned Road

    I really like your dirt Tom
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    Check it out!!!

    I was hopin' it would be some of YOUR fantastic CN stuff !
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    Other hobbies

    My avatar should be a hint. I rebuild old Triumph motorcycles, working on my fifth now (had one stolen) I call it my "Turnip farm" The last one took over two years to scrounge up the parts. It's always been a challenge to get them inspected but now our clever provincial gov't has made rigid...