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Anticlimbers are a series of parallel horizontal steel ribs cast with or welded to the end of the carbody floor (actually rigidly fixed to the car frame. They are usually located just above the coupler & are quite easily seen on early streetcats & interurbans. [Interurban! you can answer better...

Little Plastic People I have always suspected that the Model Railroading hobby attracted a disproportionate number of nutbars. Not me of course, I'm fine! My sanity criteria is: If I can find one modeller nutter than I am, I'm OK. :) Imagine my joy, therefore when I find dozens of you on...

Really stupid question, but if I don't ask now I'll just be stupid longer. WHAT IS THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE FOR POSTING PHOTOS WITH MY MESSAGE? Is there some other website which explains this? I presume that to post "real" photos, I need a scanner, (which I don't have). I presume the...

Duckunder foam protection That plastic spray foam sticks to EVERYTHING. (Resist the urge to blow out the little plastic tube nozzle to make re-use easier. I tried it and thuk my wipz togetfer, wife lafd for hourth, now a famiry regend.) Seriously, I use the pre-slit foam cylinders sold to...

Have just spent the day under my layout (which I started building about 1978), cleaning up wiring, checking circuits, adding feeders, etc. Here is a helpful hint for new modelers: NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, ......N E V E R design a layout with a @##$!?*&!# duckunder...

CD power

wyes Linn H. Wescott's book "How to Wire Your Model Railroad", pg 26 talks about wyes & how to wire them.

My #2 sad story :( I built a CD switch machine power supply per Peter Thorne's book "Practical Electronic Projects for Model Railroaders", chapter 5. It worked fine until I fried it one day when I shorted something while wiring up an other switch machine. I bought a 2nd home-made one,(someone...

Do you pre-bend rail for hand laid track curves? if so how do you do it without getting kinks? My sad story :( : About 2 years ago I soldered together 3 lengths of code 70 rail & Gooed it to hand laid ties on a 180 degree 24" radius curve. Looked great at first. Now thermal...

Does anyone know the height of a prototype passenger car floor above top of rail?:confused: I'm sprucing up some Rivarossi heavyweight passenger cars (new trucks, new couplers., etc.) But now I don't know if I need to shim the trucks, what height to put the coupler, etc. Seems it all depends...