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    HOn3 locomotive shops

    Sorry bill but did you re-gauge the puffing billy* loco? by rights the loco should be HOn30 or HOn2-1/2 instead of HOn3 as the prototype ran on 2'6" track or is that how it came from the factory?. Btw there are people I know of who would love to buy that sort of loco off you if it could be...
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    The Whiskey River Railway

    bogie exchange is a way of life down here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogie_exchange if I can find the footage I'd post it of a grain wagon being exchanged at Dynon in melbourne in the mid 90's interesting stuff.
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    The Little River Rail Road in Doc Tom's Back Yard

    got to 40 degrees here today, that said I am measuring in Celsius :lol: (bloody hell it's hot)
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    Prototypical Tram tracks?

    I thought you might like a photo of the real thing, taken from the great aussie rail website Vicsig http://www.vicsig.net/photo/20101212-trackworks-footscray-rd-ig.jpg
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    A deities eye veiw of the soon to be Desolation & Eastern (AKA The learning curve)

    Time pressed tonight so this is a quick update Final plan is together and the wood is purchased. construction to start upon my return from work tomorrow afternoon.
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    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    put a roadway through the viaduct, that way you can tell anyone who asks that the railroad paid off the local mayor 'Boss Hog' to get the permits needed to put their track on top of the road way forcing motorists to share with the railroad.
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    Prototypical Tram tracks?

    the special trolly track I mentioned is made by Orr and called Orr track just for the record.
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    Chassis for HOn30 Boxcab

    HOn3 car shops thread perhaps bill? about 7 threads down this forum
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    G.E.C's Northeast Corridor

    wow you've made some nice progress keep us updated (you're not updating on another forum are you? as I think I have seen that table top fleet shot somewhere)
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    Prototypical Tram tracks?

    Most use regular rail, however there is a specific brand (don't remember the name right now) which has the rail and flange way built in, however the rail is just that and it's for hand laying, a special tool must also be purchased and used to bend the rail as the extra rail makes it quite rigid...
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    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    I say, I say, that there tannery is lookin' mighty fine there and I do declare that this here boy Bill Nelson is one modeler of high quality. (or is Tennessee too far north for the foghorn leghorn accent?)
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    A deities eye veiw of the soon to be Desolation & Eastern (AKA The learning curve)

    whoa quite text heavy that one. Ok time to move onto the working plan as it stands it's a series of three modules measuring 900mm (3') by 400mm (16"), track will be atlas code 55 save for one peco finescale code 55 double slip which I am assuming I can use with the atlas (if anyone can say...
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    A deities eye veiw of the soon to be Desolation & Eastern (AKA The learning curve)

    I Thought for the purposes of Posterity I would record the History of the D&E along with a crude map before I post up my new working track plan. I would also like to thank Bill Nelson and Doc Tom who as this was the first forum site I joined really influenced me towards the forestry side of...
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    A deities eye veiw of the soon to be Desolation & Eastern (AKA The learning curve)

    I just thought I would post to say that sometime over christmas due to insufficient funds in the current economic climate and poor traffic levels the management of Freightlink have decided to end all traffic operations in the desolation island chain. As such as of december 25th 2010 the D&E...
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    The Little River Rail Road in Doc Tom's Back Yard

    nice bridges Bill and Tom, are any of them going to be over water courses? or was Tennessee in the grips of a drought in 1925?
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