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    When is a booster required on a DCC layout?

    well a booster is needed if you operate more trains than the main one can handle. Since each train draws about .5 amps (HO scale), and if you have a 2.5 amp station, that means if you operate about 5-6 Locomotives at one time on the layout, yuo won't need a booster, but fi you wanted to operate...
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    The most you pulled?

    what type fo engine? steam? yard switcher? deisels? hard to tell you if we don't know what you want.
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    MDC Got Bought (we all know)

    yes the old time cars were great, especially for those of us modeling pre-1900. they had a great selection and wide enough variety to cover most aspects of old time operations. I do hope Horizon's keeps making the old time stuff, otherwise we'll be stuck with very limited choices.
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    my first layout take a look

    Not bad, yard on one side of the Dividing backdrop, so what are you planning on putting on the other side? looks almosty like a passenger station and an industry siding.
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    Any idea on where I might find 40' or less passenger set?

    Con-Cor also makes a set of 35-40' old time cars.
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    Atlas Forum gone until August?!?!?

    Yes was very unexpected, no announcement made at all. And i just looked an hour ago and they were up, now nothing. :(
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    picking a high end brand of track

    True, that's why for all seen areas, I'd prefer to handlay both the track and turnouts, that way i can mangle the tie spacings and it'll all look the same :D . as for the unseen areas, well anything can go there as long as the old steamers can go through without derailing ;) . Course since...
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    picking a high end brand of track

    I'll have to disagree here, where in the world do you find 1000 miles of ciontinous track with the exact same tie spacings? unfortunatly you don't, so mixing different brands of track can simulaute different areas of the line, maybe they were built at different times, or maintained differently...
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    Using Cat 5 For Power Extenions

    CAT5, networking cable for LAN systems. Although not sure what he's wanting to use it for, accesories or main power.
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    Dirty track and cleaning cars

    If the rails are really dirty (IE you run plastic wheels on it, or in your case they've been stored for years and built up tarnish), Use MAAS followed by Isopropyl Alcohol to clean the rails good. Clean your wheels, then replace all plastic wheels with metals wheels and you'll be good for at...
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    Looking for a tiny tiny Chain

    Try MDC/Roundhouse, they have , in their part section, the chain they use on their Old time Tank cars (is used for the brake chain).
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    Ideas on how to build a Sowell Steam Engine

    Hmm...could use a thin rubber O-ring, not sure if you can find one that small, but if you can it should work. hmm..maybe a traction rubber from an old riverosi steamer. wrap it around a flat dish put on the axle, then up to a small pully on the frame. Course i think the whole idea of just...
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    Crazy encounter

    Shame on you shamus, you're not suposse to show the insides of your layouts houses that way :p ;)
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    A Boxcar to many.

    Larry were you sending a hint to the Brewery to put more fiber in their drinks? we know your getting old and need more fiber, but that's a bit extreme [:p]
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    Logging Operation Photos....

    Looks like Ties all over the place, even in the forefront of the picture and ion the hill in the front left, looks as if it slid down the incline then tipped over when it hit the tracks. There's probably a set of tracks on that incline that we can't see and a switch close behind the steamer. it...
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