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    Track Laying Tip #1 from Andy

    I have soldered each joint with the exception of the breaks needed for separate power blocks. The remaining joints use the cheep plastic insulating connectors. The room the layout is in fluctuates tremendously in humidity (from very dry to flooded), and the temperature fluctuates maybe by 10...
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    Why the Gauge went down.

    I had to take a step back from all things railroad for a month or so to take care of much more pressing matters. Come back only to find cryptic error messages. My mind quickly raced to the conclusion that it all moved with out me. (Similar to a friend of mine returning home from college only...
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    Anybody here have to deal with the Midwest Tornados

    Yes and No. We were very near the path of the one that hit Utica. As soon as the weather service issued the watch, we rounded up the 3 ferrets the cat and let them ride out the storm in the basement. Once the sirens went off then my wife and I joined them along with the dog. I made several...
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    Modeling A Dirt Road Or Path

    Cool! I’ll have to give that a try. I was wondering how to do this as well. Another problem I had was in one corner of my lay out I have a few archaeologists working on a site near the main line, but could not find any realistic looking dirt for them to be digging in. I ended up using some...
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    What do you want to achieve in the New Year

    1) Spiders living on the layout – Gone :D 2) More buildings for the current portion of the layout– This is in the works. I took a bunch of plans from various mag’s and transferred them to my growing stock of cereal board. Now I just have to start cutting all of them out. 3) I was going...
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    Scratch building N scale

    Great job on that building! :thumb: Every once and a while my wife notices something missing. Lucky for me, the cat has been known to knock stuff on to the floor and our dog has a habit of eating anything it can get its teeth onto. She no longer asks me if I know where something is...
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    Operation Forum?

    I would love to see an Ops forum. That would defiantly help me get another view of the hobby that I have only caught a glimpse of. I have ideas on how it will work, but not sure at this point if it is the right idea. :confused: :confused: Before I started to follow all of awesome work...
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    Oil Depot...

    That is one sweet little project you have there (oil stains and all)! :thumb:
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    What do you want to achieve in the New Year

    First thing is to evict the wolf spiders that have moved into a few of my buildings. :mad: Second, I have to finish at least a few more buildings and situate them on the layout (along with the required scenery). Once that is finished, I have to begin the framework for the rest of the...
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    Poll: Operations

    Like Tom, I am not at the stage that I can begin doing operations too well. My layout as it currently stands is a single loop with a few unfinished spurs, designed just to get the trains running. Eventually two of the spurs will be extended to be the main line as the layout wraps around the...
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    Cardstock truck/trailer kits

    Cool :thumb: Lookin' forward to seeing what your final product looks like. Even without an intermodal yard, I don't have enough funds for some of the trucks I have seen available. Cereal board and other cardstock is quickly becoming my favorite medium for new structures and equipment...
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    styrene sheets help

    Cool! Thanks for the tip. I always knew there was something I was missing. I just had too much else to worry about at the time to bother looking for a better method. Actually, I have always been too @#&% impatient to take the time. After several bad (and I mean real bad) :mad: scratch...
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    The Griswold Railway Hotel

    Keep on posting! :thumb: :thumb: We all love to see how you do this stuff. I for one keep looking forward to your posts. It keeps me motivated to work on the buildings for my own layout. :p
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    Signal Question

    Thanks for the info. :thumb: :thumb: I know that the horns are the result of the locals complaining about the noise of the train horns. It seems like they fight to keep the trains from blowing their horns, but then they turn around and complain that they did not blow if some poor sob gets...
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    The-Gauge is 3 years Old!!

    Happy Birthday :thumb: & Thanks to everybody on The Gauge. I have learned a lot over the 1.5 (or so) years I have been stopping in here to read things. Now that my own short line is up and running, I will be moving from a lurker to a regular poster (and yes there will be pics) .:D
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