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HI TOM AND ALL! Just came back in from shoveling my daughter's car out of our slushy. wet, icy driveway. I rest my case on local weather! HEY TOM, were you going to stow your hamster in your layout tunnel until you came back from the store with new cage? Just kidding and LOL! :) :D ;)

Trolleys used a spring-loaded single point in years past, and the wheels easily moved the single point when traversing a reverse loop, etc. I think you would have to have ALL car weight a tad heavy and have the spring loading of points light and probably do some filing/polishing on switch bad...

Spotted this elsewhere. A newbie was being given advice to use sifted sand/dirt of the desired colors for one's scenery requirements, as long as it was heated in an oven on low heat to kill bacteria, etc. This was good advice as far as it went. I must also add that it is very important to run...

MRR PUN SHEET OFF-TRACK BETTING: section gang playing poker in a handcar shed WYE: what a wife says real loud when she finds the receipt for your brass loco HUMP YARD: where stockcar loads of camels get sorted 44 TONNER: someone who loves greasy burgers, onion rings and ice cream a lot...

Did the Budd Company ever build Rail Diesel Car demonstrators in the 50's? It seems to me that they would have done so. Has anyone got a pic of same? I wished to see/copy the paint scheme on them. Tom :)

HI TOM AND ALL! Got up earlier than mama to babysit grandson and give wife 40 winks more. It IS a nice, sunny day and I intend to enjoy it, as the week-end sounds BAD, weather-wise. Had our first layout construction session on Wednesday a.m. and it felt GOOD to be mrr'ing again! TTFN....:)

WOW! What a GREAT idea, using photocopied views on foam blocks! THANKS FARMER RON! Since I have a scanner on my pc which gets very little use, I guess I'd better familiarize myself with the operating manual and try this idea! The grain mill scene will be tricky as there will be old stone mill...

We will shortly start laying track on the first part of our new HO sectional layout and the first two industries will be laid out: a local coal & oil dealer using two spurs and a feed & grain mill along a creek. We will again make and use a cardboard mock-up of each structure in both scenes, so...

Wish to convincingly model small, low waterfall on a creek adjacent to small grainmill on our HO sectional layout. The grainmill naturally gets it's water power by the diversion of upstream flow thru sluce to waterwheel, with discharge returning to creek below falls. Will probably do creek by...

GOOD MORNING NELSON AND ALL! PRAISE THE LORD! It's going to be in the upper 50's here on Sunday! We will NOT be home, but out for a ride with the sidecar rig, to be sure! YEEHAA! :) :) :)

HI NELSON AND ALL: Just came back from exercising my Nov. 5th constitutional right with my better half. Now I'm going to have lunch and do a bit of carpentry in our kitchen. If they hadn't used salt in places on the local roads this morning, we'd be out with our sidecar rig, enjoying the fall...

Post correction Unit will be OCTOGONAL [8-sided] in shape, NOT 6-sided as originally stated. Otherwise we would not have enough surface area for our terminal and reverse loop radius would be too small. Sorry for error...Tom:)

Has anyone had experience using steel studs for framing their benchwork? We [small HO sectional group: New England Northern] are about to experiment with this in building hexagonal free-standing unit, approx. 26" on each face, for our layout. It will be used as a direction reverser for single...

HELLO: If a moderator or anyone else on this forum has recently sent me a private e-mail message, I may have deleted same. My hard drive was trashed on my former computer by an e-mailed virus, so am now in the habit of deleting any e-mail which has no specific title and I've received a few of...

HI AGAIN PHIL, NELSON, and all of you folks! Don't check my e-mail very often, but will have to change that bad habit. My apologies here for not getting back to all of you who sent me private HELLO posts. Just posted at HO trains forum, as my pal Gary and I are going to now reimmerse ourselves...