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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] - Part VII

    hi all, i spent 444.00 at the LHS last sat, picked up 2 o scale engines, 2 Williams gp-38's one powered and one dummy, black penn centrals . and i picked up 2 MTH premier rolling stock, another coal porter and another flat car with motor homes. i been buy ing all the MTH premier...
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] - Part VII

    steamer's has more moving parts, more to go wrong.
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] - Part VII

    all my other MTH engines run perfect, all the lionel engines i have are junk!!!! that why i went to MTH, THE BETTER BRAND. i have one williams engine, its ok but the horn is a joke, no sounds , no smoke, and cant run on DCS or TTMC,
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] - Part VII

    ok i have had it!!!!!! had it with my mth rail king 4-8-4 "j" northern steamer! its been one thing after another, did not run right out of the box, the battery had a broken wire, got that fixed then the rubber traction tires would not stay on for one lap around the track. then the screws...
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] - Part VI

    yes its the streamlined one. i have all kinds of passenger sets now, i was told that these engines was also used in freight trains as well, i would like to get some period freight cars to pull behind it for now. the only ones i have so far are to modern for this engine. except for some...
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] - Part VI

    hi all, i got my MTH rail king 30-1479-1 imperial Norfolk and Western 4-8-4 "J" Northern steam engine yesterday, had some troubles with it, first the battery inside had a broken wire so it would not move, have a new one on the way but in the mean time i took one out of one of my other engines...
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    N scale track with built in plastic roadbed?????

    all im doing is counter sinking the track into the base, the ballast is only clued to the foam, no glue ever touches the track. this way the only thing i have to throw out is the foam, witch is cheap, and im not throwing out 300.00 to 600.00 worth of track each time i go to start a new layout.
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    N scale track with built in plastic roadbed?????

    cant reuse regular track thats what i been using, when it gets taken up it gets thrown away, as its cant be reused after its been glued down. and you cant make flex track that was once a curve straight again. the point of the road bed track is i can...
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    The makin's of one nasty accident

    take a smoke unit out of an o scale engine, hide it in the scene. you can turn them up and down for more or less smoke.
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    N scale track with built in plastic roadbed?????

    for those that think the "roadbed track" looks toy like,,,,, what i plan to do is put the track down into the pink foam base. cut the edges of the foam the same angle as the sides of the road bed. so the only part of the plastic roadbed you see is the top of the track/roadbed , then it will...
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    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] - Part VI

    hi all, i had a bad spell this AM, gasping for air, body not adjusted to only having one lung. will take a long time i think. im waiting to hear from my oncologist to find out what the next step is, there is just a few cancer cells left in me,, i want to hurry and wipe them out before the take...
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    The makin's of one nasty accident

    this post has given me an idea for a diorama, i have this N scale crane car i been wanting to use some where. so i think im going to have a train run along a cliff, ravine on one side and cliff/mountain on the other side of the tracks, maybe have a bridge going over a small river, and at the...
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    The makin's of one nasty accident

    This just in, the engineer was found to be text messaging on the job.
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    N scale track with built in plastic roadbed?????

    here is a list of kato unitrack curves, buy looking at the way there describe each curve how does a guy figure out how wide a space that is needed to make a U-turn? or how many pieces needed? when going out and buying track and your layout is 24" wide, how do you keep from buying curves that...
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    N scale track with built in plastic roadbed?????

    ok with the Kato or Bachmann track do they have lots of different sizes of curves? like my lionel fast track has 0-36, 0-48, 0-54, 0-72, 0-36 takes a space 36" wide to make a U- turn, 0-72 takes a space 72" to make a U-turn. in N scale are we stuck with just one or 2 sizes of curves in...
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