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    info needed FEC Railroad

    My beloved NYC HO layout is scraped and all locomotives and cars sold.We have relocated from the Syracuse NY area to Port Orange Florida near Daytona Beach.I now live in a retirement mobile home park no space for a model RR.There is a very active RR Xing 1/4 mile from the house at night I hear...
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    HO scale Railroad Crossing signals

    I have a magazine article from 1988 (MR) The fellow used a ATLAS relay to operate flashing RR Xing signals.They look like Model Power signals.I know they run on AC power;but don't you need some kind of actification device to make the lights flash on and off.Also could a simple red and green...
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    Destroyed Locomotive collection

    :cool: Hi everyone,we have been doing some up grades to our home.The bath room on the 1st floor was being remodeled.the tub shower had been removed for replacement leaving the hole the pipes and drain to the soil pipe exposed.Our cat went into the basement train room.I had almost all of my NYC...
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    Camel Back Steam Locomotives

    Can someone tell me why this design was developed and used ?? It looks like the engine crews would have hated them.In the cold or wet weather. :cool:
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    Gone :but not forgotten

    :cool: I was doing errans in East Syracuse NY yesterday.My buseness took me out on RT.290 that runs along side of the old NYC PC Conrail,now CSX Dewitt yard,and the former AMTRAK station.What a blow.The station has been torn down and the large parking lot is now used for semi trailer and truck...
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    Yard and main line plan ideas

    :cool: I have 27 feet of bench work along one side of my basement wall.It is 5/8 inch plywood on L girders.24 inches wide.I also have a sky board mounted on 2X4 attached to the wall.There is a 6 inch space between the sky board and the bench top.I have 41/2 inch boards on 4 inch risers mounted...
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    Old FA shells

    :cool: I found (2) HO scale FA shells.Both are A units.I was told they were made by Lionel.Does anyone know of a power chassie that would work with these shells? I would like to make them over to NYC lighting stripe.I have not posted in awhile due to illness.Always glad to talk about NYC motive...
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    Steam Engine make over's

    :cool: In the January issure of RMC magazine there was a article kit bashing O scale plastic steam locomotives to get a model not commercially available.This was in 1978.I model NYC middle 1950's The price of brass locomotives is beyond what I can afford to pay.During the holidays I recieved as...
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    Train show bargins

    What a blizzard we had in Syracuse Sunday morning.Risked life and limp to get there,(good old Chevy truck).The very 1st table I stopped at had a used Bachman 4-8-4 Niagara.The lady told me it had a problem with the pilot wheels falling out and had been returned to there shop.Made the deal for...
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    NYC 4-8-4 Bachman

    :cool: Train show in Syracuse this weekend,if I see a Bachman NYC 4-8-4 It will be coming home .I've had 2 of them in the past.Some of the things I didn't like about the engine were it's pulling power,small almost invisable headlight,and tender or pilot wheel derailment thru switches.I don't...
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