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    EASY FOUNDATIONS & WALLS ! (dial up pic. warning)

    Nice trick for the larger scales. (A bit tough to make N scale bricks, I'll bet.) BTW, no vinyl-asbestos tiles have been manufactured since 1982. Wayne
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    Adirondack sawmill questions

    Hello Silver and all still around. I've been away from the hobby for a while and worse, away from my Adirondack mountains for the past 6 months as I moved to the hills of western Maine to take a new job. Even though it isn't Northern NY, life here is good and I plan to stick around so I'm...
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    Improbable Roll-By

    It would have been funny to see a FRED on the last one. Nice shots! Muddy Creek Wayne
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    What Does Everyone Think About Ann Coulter?

    "What Does Everyone Think About Ann Coulter?" Right-wing idealogue with the same basic talents of a parrot: Can only repeat what it's heard and leaves a pile of crap in it's wake. For right wing entertainment, I suggest the Sludge Report. His fiction writers at least show some degree of...
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    AutoCad

    Never used AutoCAD Light. Full-blown AutoCAD has put food on the table & rolling stock on the tracks since the mid-1980's. Currently using AutoCAD 2002 & happy as a clam with it. Every update of AutoCAD has reports of issues but I've never encountered any of the major problems that some have...
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    Wonder if the UP will charge me licensing fees for this thought...

    I was shopping for a new sleeping bag but the prices were unbelievably high. When I asked the salesperson why, he said is was because down is up. Wayne
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    Train Song Lyrics

    Since this thread got revived after a year and a half, perhaps it's time to correct the original post that started it. Arlo Guthrie didn't write "City of New Orleans. It was penned by the late, great Steve Goodman a few years before Arlo had his hit with it. Wayne
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    searching for maps

    Illinois Central Maps can be found at the I.C. Historical Society: http://icrrhistorical.org/ Lots of other IC info there, too. Wayne
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    My thought for today

    "We are all of us living in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde Wayne
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    One way to acquire kitbashing pieces...

    Option 4: Get mold & casting material (like that sold by Smooth-on.com.) This assumes you still have an identical window to create a duplicate from. You'll then have your window, experience & a new modeling technique. Wayne
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    Small logging layout update

    How tight is the curve going to be at the future trestle, Brewer? If you're planning to use the Atlas N Scale Shay, it is reported to require a 9 1/4" radius. (or is it 9 3/4"?) Wayne
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    Building a Muddy Creek kit

    Thanks for the review of the kit, Jim. I placed a link in the new products forum here which should get posted shortly. In the meantime, details are at http://www.muddycreekrr.com/laserkits.htm Wayne
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    Just starting out

    Hi CAS, TileGuy's right, it's not something you will decide immediately, unless there is some past historical interests that lead you in a certain direction. The trick though, is to decide soon enough that you can get some trains rolling & keep the interest up. Years of research will definitely...
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    How to Do a Stucco Finish on Cerealboard

    While I never applied it over cereal board, I've had good success using DAP Lightweight Spackle straight out of the container & troweled on thinly over basswood. The material can go on quite thinly & can be finished in a number of ways while wet. I imagine patting it with a fine-cell sponge...
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    OK you NEED one of these on your logging line

    That could go a long way towards reducing the damage to the forest by heavy lugged tires and tracks used by current logging equipment. It's the damage from the roads that are built that takes longer for the woodlands to recover from. It's a little too recent for use on my logging layout...
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    Aurora Borealis (Off Topic)

    Without having to move the thread to the "Technical Q & A" forum, the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis (and several other names) is the result of particles from solar flares & explosions that hurtle towards earth & collide with gasses in our atmosphere. The energy from the collision results...
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    Aurora Borealis (Off Topic)

    I'm surprised you haven't seen it from your area, Chris. I've seen them from up here, in the Adirondacks, just at a slightly more Northern latitude. If you're in a city or large town, the electric lights will wash them out. The shows I've seen haven't been quite as vibrant as in the photos, more...
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    About to lay yard - what do you think?

    There does come a time when you have to say enough designing and start building. Looks like you got some good advice here and massaged your plan into a workable yard that you seem happy with. This thread might go on forever with everyone expressing their personal preferences, wyes over...
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    Atlas Shay

    I've got a 5.5 percent grade that runs about 8' for these babies to climb. I'm hoping they will push a half dozen empty 25' log cars up it. I'll be a happy logger if it will. Wayne
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    question about image compression......

    Even just opening it in Microsoft Paint and using the stretch/skew to reduce it to a managable size will work. It's a program you likely have in your computer if you use any version of Windows since 1.0. Wayne
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