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  1. Snowbound

    I broke my new loco.

    So I just bought my first N scale loco, an Atlas B23 with Santa Fe blue & yellow paint. Looks terrific & really brings back memories from childhood. I was just poking & prodding the different parts & the metal bit on the front coupler, the "horn" I think, came off. It's the curved piece that...
  2. Snowbound

    How would you operate this layout

    I inhereted my Dad's Marklin stuff & have this layout: It is HO scale & I don't really have any intention of expanding it. It's not even modeled & I may or may not keep it & model it. But I'd like to be able to operate trains on this layout & get a feel for model train operations. Any...
  3. Snowbound

    OK you NEED one of these on your logging line

    http://65.66.244.26:8080/mvnforum/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=493 that's just nuts.
  4. Snowbound

    Marklin

    Any of you folks model Marklin? My mom just brought me all my Dad's & my old Marklin stuff. Man, I forgot how many locos we had... proably $2-3k worth, all digital. I was just going to put it up on a shelf, but somehow I have a feeling that I won't be able to resist at least building at least...
  5. Snowbound

    Mr Fifer, please pick up a white courtesy telephone

    never mind sent a pm instead
  6. Snowbound

    Choosing a DCC set

    Bear with me -- I'm still a newbie, so some of this may be completely wrong or misinformed, but I am looking at all the DCC sets out there & I am not sure which one to get for the N scale layout I am currently dreaming up. Here is what I am looking for: 1. Unit must have computer interface &...
  7. Snowbound

    Help a newbie spend his money

    Hi folks, I'm new to this forum & am returning to the hobby after a number of years. My dad & I used to model HO Marklin & we had a neat little 4x8 layout back in the day. I still have a number of the Marklin digital engines, but I think I will relegate them to the display cabinet & start a...