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    working in a coal mine

    was cleaning in the shed this morning and found a box of old Coal Age magazines and one of them had a layout on Women working underguornd this photo of the three ladies was taken in the east.
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    wire glass update

    ok i was not happy with the black netting so went to Joanns and got some gray and brown. as you can see from the pics that the gray is a bust too hard to see but the brown looks just right to me ,what do you think ? the black is on the left the gray center and the brown right i also included...
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    another Wal Mart find

    found this as wal Mart yesterday:thumb: its 1/87 (HO) for just under $2.50 its Die Cast.
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    Ok Val here we go

    Val we were chatting about using nylon net to make chiken wire window glass (early safety glass) i put down a layer of clear acrylic medium on a sheet of urethane and when it was still tacky i laid a peice of the netting on top of it them coated it with more medium . I think the black is too in...
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    for Catt

    hi here is the pic of the ford Van .
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    trip to Tucson

    on our road trip to tucson (by the way the Ace hardware store is a great model shop :D ) we drove on I8 which runs next to the old SP main for about 1/2 the trip found a few old water tanks still standing, the first one is at Sentinel was used to fill water trucks for the feed yard behind it in...
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    is there any Guage members in Tucson AZ

    hi wife and i are planning a trip to Tucson next weekend and wanted to know which were the good hobby shops in the area?
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    the wheel rediscovered.

    announce1 I think I have have discovered the wheel again:D might not be the first modeler to stumble on this but in doing the #1 challange cutting the styreen sheets was not going well . the other night at chat Catt and i talked about using a rotary paper cutter for scoring the sheets before...
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    jim curries challange #1

    announce1 ok heres goes :) My LPB's at my coal miners needed housing so i modified the plans for a small flag stop station (kinda like challange #2) the photo is the real thing the poor drawings are the modified results there will be three different units one for single miners with two rooms...
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    ezdays it works:)

    announce1 Don this pic started out as over 1meg program works like a charm :D thanks again:wave: by the way its a close shot of a railgrinder car.
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    CB&Q depot

    anyone know what the trim color was on a Burlington brick freight depot?
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    jim curries challange #2

    got my DPM freight depot now i will build it as intended and after i will modify(just like the 1:1 world) it will post photo's as soon as i can get the :curse: :curse: :curse: :cry: :cry: file size down to where i can post them here.
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    speed

    is anyone else haveing trouble with the gauge running slower than the proverbial molasses in january? or is it just my sucky dial up connection.:cry:
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    Tall Cactus

    some time back Don(easydays)made mention of the Century cactus here is a small one its over 10 ft tall.
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    price of copper

    was told that copper prices have broke4$ a lb so that means to us modelers that the price of track and other related things that use copper are going to go up drasticly:cry:
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    blocking diodes

    Hi this post is aimed at ezy days you but any suggestions are welcome would D1 & D2 be a effective way to block the circuit or would i be better off putting blocking diode on the negitive side of the transistors. you will have to excuse the crappy drawing but can't get my circuit making program...
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    electrical question

    since we don't have a electrical forum thought I would stick this here. need to know if bipolar electrolytic caps are still made and if not would a led block well enough that wouldn"t need a blocking diode on the ground side of a alternating flasher circuit?
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    N Gauge here is the bridge

    the pic diden't scan as well as i would have liked but you can get the general idea of it its a beauty:D is it like the high line bridge you talked about?
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    strange look

    every time i sign in now i get a page with a new look different than last time i logged on . anyone else getting this ?
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    dry transfer help

    is there anyone who might know of a way to restore dry transfers i left my box of xfers out in the heat last summer :oops: now they are all dried up :cry:
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