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    Snow Removal

    On my way home awhile ago I noticed the Iowa Interstate was using a pair of their 38-2's to plow snow from their mainline out of council Bluffs. We had quite a bit of drifting from this last storm and I imagine with the climb out of Council Bluffs they might have trouble without cleaning the tracks.
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    Damage in Iowa

    Read yesterday that all of the east/west and north/south mainlines of the UPRR are shut down due to the extensive flooding throughout the state. There are many, many bridges that have been washed out on the Iowa Interstate as well as several short lines. The article that I read also stated that...
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    Wye

    I would like to include a "wye" on my layout. I use DCC. Am I coreect that a wye is basically the same as a reverse loop? If this is true, where do I place my automatic reverse loop polarirt reverser? Thanks
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    Interesting Sighting

    Yesterday I noticed a number of passenger cars stuck back away from normal public view and too far away for me to get a picture, but I did some checking and discovered that there are 20 coach cars that were formerly a part of the Montreal transit system. All of the cars seem to be numbered in...
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    Mystery Train??

    My daughter, who lives in Liberty, Missouri, just north of Kansas City, tells me there is a live steam engine with several cars that has been at Union Station in Kansas City and has now been moved up to Liberty. She thinks it was moved out of New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina blew in there...
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    People's Location

    Is there any way to go into the Gauge and build a list of where people registered on The Gauge live? I'm one of those who look a people's profiles when I come on the air thinking I might spot someone from my neck of the woods or from some particular place of interest to me. I think that is...
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    Turntable versus a Wye

    I would be very interested in what others think about the best use of a fairly limited space for turning engines around, a turntable with roundhouse, or a wye. I see an advantage to a wye as I think I can sort of work it into the scheme of things by putting something along each leg of it, while...
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    Strange Boxcar!!

    I have a couple of old boxcars I bought off e-Bay some time back and am just now getting around to checking couplers, wheel sets, etc. I could see inside one of them that there is a wheel inside, so I opened it up to check it out. Sure enough a well balanced metal wheel, about an inch and a half...
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    Wheels

    Is there a reason I should be considering putting metal wheels on those pieces of rolling stock I have acquired that still have plastic ones? What makes the difference. Oh, eventually I'll be running DCC :thumb: Bob
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    DCC Compatible

    Received an Athearn SD40-2 "Post '80 "Q" Fans (HO scale) for Christmas. Haven't tried to open it and thought before I did I would ask here whether or not it will accept a decoder? Thanks and Merry Christmas Bob
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    Wiring Loop

    I have a 6' X 12' layout. I am working on the wiring. Can I create an actual loop with the buss wire and then tap in the power to that loop? Will the same situation work (or not work) for both DC and DCC? :confused: :confused: Thanks Bob
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    Edging/Facia

    I am looking to build about a 6 to 8" edge around 3 sides of my layout and I am open to suggestions about what material will best suit my needs. I don't have a lot of tools, so can't get too fancy. :eek: Bob
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    Foam Putty

    Anyone ever heard of and/or worked with a material that has been identified to me as "foam putty?" If so, where do you buy it and how does it come, can like "real putty" or maybe in a spray can? I have my bench work completed and I have some spaces between foam sheets that I'd like to fill...
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    The Crate/Box

    Does anyone know where the thread is that we had going for months and months about "The Box"? :(
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    Trip to Europe

    In Sep/Oct I will be traveling with my better half to Prague, Budapest, Croatia, Florence and Munich. All travel except getting there and home and the ferry trip across from Croatia to Italy will be by TRAIN!! Anything special I ought to be looking for regarding the trains, in the way of...
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    Iowa, Chicago and Eastern??

    Son in law tells me he saw a couple of diesels in the KCS yard in Kansas City the other day maked for the Iowa, Chicago and Eastern. Can anyone shed any more light on this outfit? General route (please don't tell me Iowa, Chicago and east from there :D :D ) Thanks Bob
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    Foam Putty

    Has anyone used the Woodland Scenics foam putty? If so, what kind of results did you get? Was it what you wanted? How did you use it? Thanks very much Bob
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    Walther's Modern 130" Turntable

    I am just getting started (again) with a new layout and one of the items I intend to evenually purchase and make a show part of my layout is the new Walther's 130' turntable. I have in front of me the latest Walther's monthly flyer with the turntable advertised. In the ad it mentions that the...
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    Turntable and Reverse Loop

    I am about ready to get started building my new layout and I mentioned to a fellow modeler here that I was not going to have any reverse loops in this layout ( I model HO and will be using Digitrax Super Chief DCC). Later we were talking about the fact I intend to use a turntable, I hope to...
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    Starting Over Decisions

    Greeting from the empty space where my HO railroading empire is supposed to be sitting, but until I make some decisions that ain't ta guna happen. I could use some help. I have pretty much in mind how I'm going to do my bench work, it is now a matter of coming up with my materials list and...
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