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    What Have You Accomplished In The 2005 Year?

    Well I moved to TN from Orange CO NY. I will have a bigger house in April. I had to dissasemble and pack my 4X8 and all the stuff I bought is 2005. So I guess I accomplished alot on both fronts. Now being in the Nashville area anyone want to tell me what railroad runs thru here and does it...
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    A Get Well Card For Brakie

    Get well soon Brakie! God Bless!!
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    Other hobby's?

    I have waay too many. I build computers, hot rods, ride my harley, shoot pool, play video games, and build railroads now. I really don't know how I manage all of them. But it manages to keep the family amused and myself.
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    Its Monday 4-11-05, Weekend modeling accomplishments

    I feel as if I have "cheated" on all my railroad buddys. I but I have had to forgo the greatest hobby to work on the second greatest hobby. My harley. So since this is the guage and not "milwaukee iron" I wont tell you how I cleaned the bike and went to a swap meet this weekend. Oops. No...
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    Status on Brakie?

    My prayers are with him god bless him
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    kadee's what and how and will it help?

    http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=13614 Just follow this thread and I show a pic of how I body attached a #9 coupler and Box. I used glue and a screw I suppose glue would work just as well. I have found old credit cards make a good stock for adjusting height and making mounting pads...
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    kadee's what and how and will it help?

    I have put kadees on tycos. Some I have converted the talga wheel sets others I have just cut the coupler off the wheel set and body mounted them. One solution which helps to keep me rolling is to mount a kadee on one side of one train and keep the other end stock to pull the rest of those old...
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    My thought for today

    Nothing good will come of this Dr Smith from Lost in Space Movie 1998
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    The Magazine Is Awesome!!

    Enough said.
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    March Photo Contest: LPABP

    :curse: Monster attacks small town.http://www.the-gauge.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20978&stc=1 http://www.the-gauge.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20978&stc=1
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    I Love The Easter Bunny

    Oops thanks for the correction on the decapods. Don't wanna be repeating that mistake much. Uh then lets see Averil Harriman bought one just for his personal passenger rail from harriman to middletown ny. I hope that one sticks.
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    I Love The Easter Bunny

    Well Im thinking that we imported it for some switching duty. I know the Erie RR had Russian Decapods, so someone just screwed up the order. Pretty big screw up eh?
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    I Love The Easter Bunny

    Well my in-laws brougt me this beauty from Austria. I never heard of the company. But this thing runs as smooth as silk. Its sooo quiet and can operate at very slow speeds. Kinda has the same qualities as my broadway ltd. mikado without the sound. How come Bachmann and BdY Ltd. are made in...
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    Happy Easter folks...

    right back atcha guys. I gotta go leave a carrot for the easter bunny.
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    Excuses for calling off work

    i used to work with a guy who had a medical dictionary on him. he had some top notch excuses. "my spleen!", my pituitary, my esophagal ulcer !, botulism, never a cold. always a viral infection . im surprised he never knew the virus by name. we gotta go typing on a pda is kinda pitiful.
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