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    Kato E8 set

    Hi, Herc Driver, Do you have easements entering your curve? The base cause of your problem is as you described, the stock Kato coupler is a bit stiff (stiffer than Micro-Trains couplers), and combined with the fact the nose coupler is body-mounted, combined with the fact that most Kato...
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    Layout Tour: Minature Wonderland Hamburg (NSF56K)

    Hi, LiveSteamer. I'm sure you're thinking of "Northlandz" in New Jersey. Although I haven't been to Northlandz, from what I've seen in photos of Northlandz, I would guess Miniature Wonderland in Germany displays a much higher level of detail and fidelity. It's incredible how many...
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    Layout Tour: Minature Wonderland Hamburg (NSF56K)

    ===================== Part 3: 15. Minature Wonderland Control Center - Looks like NASA - railroad is fully computer operated and automated 16. Minature Wonderland North Sea Sunflowers 17. Minature Wonderland - Overview of layout size and cost I hope...
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    Layout Tour: Minature Wonderland Hamburg (NSF56K)

    ================ Part 2: 7. Minature Wonderland - Landungsbrucken - a famous waterside restaurant in Hamburg 8. Minature Wonderland - a famous bridge, Kohlbrandbrucke, over Hamburg harbor 9. Minature Wonderland - model of AOL-Arena in Arena, complete with 12,000...
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    Layout Tour: Minature Wonderland Hamburg (NSF56K)

    Hi, all, I was fortunate enough on my recent Europe business trip to visit the very large HO model railroad at Minature Wonderland: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/ This is the huge model railroad in a old historic warehouse district in Hamburg, Germany, with four different...
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    Layout Tour: Minature Wonderland Hamburg (NSF56K)

    ===================== Part 3: 15. Minature Wonderland Control Center - Looks like NASA - railroad is fully computer operated and automated 16. Minature Wonderland North Sea Sunflowers 17. Minature Wonderland - Overview of layout size and cost I hope...
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    Layout Tour: Minature Wonderland Hamburg (NSF56K)

    ================ Part 2: 7. Minature Wonderland - Landungsbrucken - a famous waterside restaurant in Hamburg 8. Minature Wonderland - a famous bridge, Kohlbrandbrucke, over Hamburg harbor 9. Minature Wonderland - model of AOL-Arena in Arena, complete with 12,000...
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    Layout Tour: Minature Wonderland Hamburg (NSF56K)

    Hi, all, I was fortunate enough on my recent Europe business trip to visit the very large HO model railroad at Minature Wonderland: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.de/ This is the huge model railroad in a old historic warehouse district in Hamburg, Germany, with four different...
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    Mini Layouts??

    Good pics, folks! My layout is pretty small, 4 feet by 4 feet, made of two modules back to back: The track plan is: More about the little layout is at: http://home.comcast.net/~j.sing/Peavine_Layout_Overview.html
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    February Photo Contest: LPB

    Oops, I disqualify myself. I did not realize that LPB was this month's topic (thought it was only photo contest). There are no LPBs in my photo (that I know of anyway, not even in the loco's cab!) I withdraw. Sorry!!!!
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    Sharing: Photo update San Diego Model RR Museum Tehachapi Loop layout progress

    San Diego Model RR Museum Update - La Mesa HO Tehachapi Layout I've just posted a small January 2005 progress update to my Oct 2004 behind-the-scenes photo essay of this famous layout. Significant progress has been made and the Tehachapi Loop is taking shape. You can see the photos...
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    February Photo Contest: LPB

    Hi, OK, I'll jump in. I finally finished decaling and numberboarding my third Santa Fe GP30 (all three are from the 1993-era run by Kato/Atlas). Here's a shot of the three of them on their maiden run as a triplet:
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    Photos visit N scale San Diego Model RR Museum

    By the way, reason the modeled station has a 'front porch covered area' and the photo of today's real station does not, is that portion of the building was removed prior to the time that the City realized what a architectural gem it had there. So, the model represents exactly the way the...
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    Photos visit N scale San Diego Model RR Museum

    Interurban, Yes, the photo in the referenced thread is the San Diego station. You can see that the N scale model is faithful, exact-to-scale, uncompressed replica. San Diego Station building notes from Salamon A little note about the station from David Salamon, who was a member...
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    Photos visit N scale San Diego Model RR Museum

    Hi, all, Thanks to Jim Bence, Tony Burzio, Mark Galbreath, and all the other San Diego Society of N Scale (SDSONS) members for hosting me and the Santa Fe Trainmaster to the N scale Pacific Desert Lines at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum ( http://www.sdsons.org ) on Tuesday night...
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