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I have used the balsa stripper for years, works great, go slow and replace the blade often..works great..buy the thin balsa sheets a the hobby shop or craft stores, you can pre mark it with knot holes and scratches before you cut it.. ron

Yes I hear it all the time..Its always someone elses fault.. Scoobie..was working two nites ago.. a 17year old new driver, only had her drivers licence since Dec 05..driving down a strait portion of road..looking down dialing her cell phone .. and as not paying attention..the vehicle wandered...

The MOWRR could use lease equipment, it could have purchased older equipment from other lines and blocked out the other lines name and decaled on or using letrasete or something like that put on MOW..or MOW RR Steam engines could have the...

Thanks everyone for the valuable information..Andrew will definately go to those sites..many thanks again..Ron..

What is the minimum wire requriements for the downleads and the bus wire using the digitrax system? We are presently building ourlarge club layout and at the stage of putting in the wire for our digitrax system. There seems to be a discussion going on amongst the members at to what the minimum...

Are you putting a double track down or a single? You can use ACC or 5 min epoxy. I would soder two pieces of code 83 track together. I would get a piece of balsawood to the width between the outside edge of the ties and the side of the bridge,put some light weights on it so it will not move...

The next step on the layout is a flustrating one, been at it for a day already, have a short in three of my switches and for the life of me I can not find it, started today trying to isolate the rails but no luck, starting to butcher the switch and looks like crap, looks like I will have to...

The next step is one of process of elimination..take everything off the tracks and like it has been mentioned before, ensure EVERYTHING is off the track. turn power on..is there a short..with still nothing on the track throw each switch separately, is there a short at any one of these spots if...

Is your track down?? Take a box car, put a piece of sticky tape on one end (this is the front) pin a piece of paper to starting point beside your track..push the box car around and if you return to the same spot with the sticky tape at the same front end, you do not have a reverse. Years ago I...

We just put a helix in at the club, it is not as complex as the one you are concidering. Ours is plywood base with homosoate then cork and track. We made ours 2 percent grade max. We build a base then just used wood sticks up the sides and screwed the plywood to it with wood screws when all...

Excellent work Ernest, very well done. I also make my own switches, I get the templates from a company called Fast Tracks, a company here in Canada that makes all sorts of jigs etc for making switches. They also have on their site a section where you can print off switch templates on a 1 to 1...

Didn't get anything done on the layout this weekend, was away all weekend riding horses, although did get some time to do some thinking and planning, off today and tomorrow so have to do a little house work and cleaning stuff then its to the trains....have a good week everyone...Ron..

weather was too nice to be inside so lots of work done outside, although did get some time to sit down on Sat nite and draw out a proposed track plan for a 30 inch by 5 ft module that will attach to the side of the layout..Ron..

In the past I use to use code 100 peco switches as I had lots and could not afford to buy new ones, and 83 track. I also used code 70 for sidings and code 55 for dead end industrial tracks. Had no problems.. Now I make my own switches with code 83 &70, still use code 83 rail for mainline and 70...

Didn't get anything done on the layout this weekend, weather too nice, spent it pulling out blackberries, it is supose to rain during the week so if that is the case will get down to the layout tues or wed, have about a 3 ft length of track to handlay then all the track is down for the main part...

Just came in as it is getting dark outside and too dangerous to do things, couple nites ago put down ties for the lead into the enginehouse, as wife is sleeping and has to go to work later tonite i will be going down to the layout and build the "Y" switch infront of the 2 stall engine house...

Thank you all for your valuable information, will be bringing all the comments and suggestions up at tonite's club meeting..many thanks again..Ron..

Do you need to seal homosoate with anything before using scenery or ballast on it? In our area homosoate is very difficult to come by and our club has not used it in the past, this layout we have located a supplyer of homosoate and and using it for track roadbed. We have not as yet laid any...

working days this weekend so not much time for the layout this weekend, just finished building and installing one of the switches for the enginehouse lead, one more to go. will mostlikely not get at it Sund, monday is club meeting nite so will be down at it on tuesday for a while..Ron..

Glad our kids are grown up and we don't have to do all that anymore, but enjoyed it when I had to do all the running around..put in a wood road crossing near the town and have to sand it down a little as near one track the trucks climb it, then have to build two more switches which will complete...