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    layout progress

    I get the Jist bounce7
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    layout progress

    Queue Killer?????
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    What's your layouts time frame?

    I would say that mine would have to be the transition period between steam and diesel. Ther were a lot of early 1900's loco's still being used in the 1970's and 80's in Australia on my local branch line and I am designing my layout with that in mind. I have been sourcing a lot of photo's and...
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    layout progress

    You could tell her that it would add the romance of a railroad to her shop and that it may help to attract new clientel (train buffs). who knows maybe it would even attract people just coming to see a hair salon with a railroad passing through it. But of course they would have to make a hair...
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    foam

    Again Paul Sorry for the Hijack. I am interested in what is said about other methods of landscaping, I would realy like to see how Scott has gone about it just for another view. when I did my first layout years ago it was done with bird wire and paper mash'e and a good amount of ply wood for...
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    foam

    I had been seriously thinking about the issues with fire you have mentioned, can you show me som pictures of how you go about landscaping your layout. Sorry for Hijacking this thread! Paul.
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    layout progress

    Crikey Lynn, I hope that when I finally get around to starting my layout that I have the patience that you have, I have been watching this thread closely since becoming a member on this forum and your progress is outstanding. I am still in the research stages of my layout and I want to have a...
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    New Camera Test

    Nice Photo's John the Quality on those pics is very good, what kind of camera did you get? Paul
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    Starter Set Question

    Sorry doubble posted by accident:D
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    Starter Set Question

    Hey Brandon, great idea you have with the train set, I would be more inclined to buy the baby a Tomy train set they are a good quality childs playset and very robust. My Daughter (2) now owns quite a few sets which were handed down to her from my Son (5) and previously handed down from my nephew...
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    Changing couplers ??? and need them explained

    Thanks for that David. I think my old locos are the Dudlo. When I get the chance I will have a look at them. With the PC control, I don't want to give the computer complete control of the railroad, but I do want it to detect when there are two locos in the vicinity of each other and take...
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    Changing couplers ??? and need them explained

    Help I'm Changing couplers ??? and need them explained I have two questions here that I need a little help with I know it may have been explained somewhere here before, I have done a search for the first question and came up with nothing that will help, alot of the links dont seem to work as...
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    Era???

    You guys are just awsome. I mean fair dinkum you have given me the leads and enabled me to view some literature, that tripod site was something I had never seen before. The Loco that I have is from the 1977 to 1987 era which is around the time that my parents has purchased my first train set. I...
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    Era???

    Thanks Andrew My loco is a HO scale. I have just posted a pic in my previous post of the Loco that I will be basing my layout from. I realy want to run it as soon as I can but I want to do a bit of research before I start to play around with setting up my layout. I am hoping to create an era...
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    Era???

    There similar but no means a match. I cant wait for it to get here so that i can start to build my railroad around it. Thanks for that.
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