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    Using a locomotive as an oven!

    I had a fun thing happen yesterday. I was with two of my boys killing time at the train depot in Lafayette, IN. There's a double track NS line and a single CSX line that runs by the passenger platform. When we got there, there was a northbound NS train that was just stoping with its tail end...
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    Walthers 2-stall engine house

    I just got this kit and I thought that before I got started on it, I'd ask if anyone else had built this kit. If so, any tips or tricks to building this, or any ideas for interesting modifications? I model the late '40s, so this will likely be a still used, but less than new facility for the...
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    Help Me Weather My Roads

    I'm working on laying down roads for my HO scale layout that is set in the Late 1940's era and I'm looking for some ideas on weathering the streets to look right. This will be in a small downtown area and the streets will be concrete. I have made the streets from posterboard, and painted them an...
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    Time to lay track. Sequencing

    I've started on my first "real" layout, and I'm ready to embark on some tracklaying very soon. My benchwork is open grid, with 1/2" plywood (well 15/32" if you're being precise:D ) with 1 1/2" extruded foam as subroadbed. Roadbed is cork and track is Atlas code 100. About 1/3 of the benchwork...
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    Light Replacement, P2K BL-2

    Looking for suggestions on replacing a burned out light on an older P2K BL-2. I could replace the bulb with an identical bulb, (haven't looked yet to see exactly what that is yet), or I could upgrade. Filiment or LED? Right now I'm running DC, but I will be converting to DCC in the fairly near...
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    Help diagnosing a P2K BL2 problem

    I need a little help diagnosing an fixing a problem with a P2K BL2 that I recently acquired. The unit is used, so I don't know its past history. I'll try and explain the symptoms and maybe someone can tell me what the problem is and how to fix it. This is an HO Proto 2000 BL2 locomotive...
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    Bachmann powered truck replacement?

    I have a couple of cheap Bachmann diesels that the motors have died on. These are what I guess you would call the powered truck type motors, not the can motors with flywheels. Is it worth trying to replace these motors? I've tried searching for replacements, but haven't had any luck. Are...
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    Digital Age Thomas?

    Has anyone put a decoder in the HO gauge Thomas the tank engine by Bachmann? If it's possible, that may affect my choice in which DCC system I choose. I'm trying to decide between the Digitrax Zephyr, Altas Commander and MRC Prodigy Advance. Of course there are things I like and dislike about...
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    Early 50's reefers

    What types of reefers were being used in the early 50's? Were wood-sided reefers still common or had things already changed over to mechanical reefers by then? Regardless of the type, is it safe to assume that most reefers in this era were either 40 or 50 footers? HD
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    Layout advice

    Hi everyone, I'm new to the hobby and I'm working on putting together my first HO scale layout. Well it's my first if you don't count the oval in the "plywood desert" on a 4x8 that the trains run around now. I've been studying up, reading The Gauge, reading books, attending train shows...
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