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    It's FRIDAY 2-4-05, weekend modeling plans!

    Heading to the Great Scale Model Train Show in Timonium MD tomorrow. WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Sure to come home with an armload of rolling stock and receive free of charge a wheel barrow full of grief from the wife! :thumb:
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    Uncoupling help

    Would these bamboo skewers be the same thing as what I picked up at the Dollar Tree this weekend. I got a pack of 100 sandwich toothpicks. They are about 3 inches long. I was using these to make HO scale 4x4s for my lumber mill. :thumb:
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    Uncoupling help

    Oh I don,t mean while it is moving. I mean while the train is stopped. I don't care for the little forward/reverse tricks you have to play to get the under track uncouplers to work. i was wondering if perhaps a tool made with a nail that pryed the couplers apart or something of that nature.
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    Uncoupling help

    Okay I need some assistance here. I have 2 young daughters who run trains on my layout with me. They are so engrossed in what they are doing they will not give the throttle up for me to uncouple cars. That means a magnetic undertrack uncoupler is out. I use Kadee couplers exclusively. What other...
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    Need some pics or site link

    Well I am HOOKED! Progress on my grain elevator is going nicely. I want to scratch build more, more, more! Does anyone have pics they can post or links to websites containing schematics of interesting industries?? Thanks
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    Your responce to an idea????

    Why no one under 13? I mean really guys. HO train mean H-O here.
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    V Groove siding...how????

    I am building in Ho Scale btw.
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    V Groove siding...how????

    Well I am going to scratch build my first building folks. Thanks for all the inspiration! I am using newsboard for this and it will be a Grain elevator. My question is how do you all model V groove siding? Thanks a million!
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    DPDT switch question

    Okay sounds good. With this approach I assume you could do as many "dead" lines as you want correct? Since you only need to have the spurs turned on when you want to move the train on the track. And I guess the biggest thing is to ensure you have the correct polarity on all sections of track.
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    DPDT switch question

    1 2 3 4 5 6 Using the example above as guidance I need to make sure this is right. I have 1 transformer available to me. I want to make “dead” sections on my track ( basically the spurs) that I can park one train in and still run a second train on the...
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    "Real Time"Clock

    SO basically you put the hour hand where the minute hand would go. Could you not also modify a minute hand to fit where the seconds hand would be?
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    "Real Time"Clock

    Does anyone know how I could build one? As in where do you get the movement for one. Or even where do you buy a finished one. Think this would be neat while running trains. :thumb:
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    EZ Track turnout derail

    I hate to post this question again as I have seen this asked somewhere before......but alas I cannot find that thread. I saw something about filing the points on Bachmann EZ track turnouts if you are having derailment issues. What exactly are you filing. The top or the very point itself...
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    Make Uncoupling tool

    Anyone here have plans or can tell me how to make an uncoupling tool? Thanks a million, Pete :thumb:
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    Wiring help PLEASE

    Boy I want to thank you so much for the education! Now the 2 lines labeled track. Both of those lines go to the 2 rails of the freight yard correct. This will put the yard under the pwer of which ever pack is thrown. So when I am running the mainline train off of powerpack 1 I would have the...
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