Recent content by krskev

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    4 x 8 suspended, raise & lower

    Wow the last time I responded to this topic I had a big basement. Now a year later I had to sell the house due to a layoff. and last summer I built a 4 x 8 and it is hanging over my wifes car as I write this response. The one thing I will add to the list of ideas is to use eye bolts into the...
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    4 x 8 suspended, raise & lower

    I remember a cartoon in MR back around the late 70's that had the guy describing this type of a board to his wife and she was agreeable to use the idea, then in the next picture he had his layout all set up with the board suspended above it and on the board was the clothes washer and...
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    Dumb Idea #461

    I remember seeing something like this in MR a few years back. The guy had a staging track that went under the layout and then stub ended in a box. As I remember it the boxes were only for 1 car. He had a cabinet under the layout that could hold 100 or so boxes, all were labeled for each...
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    HO Slot Cars with your HO Trains?

    hey George You posted this subject on trains.com awhile ago. I have been to moms house and have found my Aroura set. Unfortunatly i lost my job and our house is for sale (too expensive). So setting it up will have to wait till i find a big basement with a house over it. In one of the...
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    Well, I went and done it...

    It was from Prieser. Listed as a scene in the winter carnival series. It showed up in the 1990 Walthers catalog. I live in Milwaukee and went direct to Walthers back in 1990 and ordered one but somehow they never recieved it. The following year it was not listed in the catalog anymore. I...
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    Well, I went and done it...

    About 12 years ago I built a special Christmas tree layout. It is HO but would work with any scale. I took our tree stand and screwed it to a 4'x4'x3/8" piece of plywood. I put 1x2 stiffeners on the outside edge and crossing at the center. The track goes up and over itself. (so it in a folded...