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    Scratch built garden snow blower unit

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwNulZLSFnI&mode=related&search= Ho-ly-cow! Though I think it's actually a bit too powerful. Slings that snow a scale quarter mile it looks like ;)
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    Michigan's Largest O Scale Layout

    I'm thinking it's probably one of the largest O scale layouts ... period. Impressive!! http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=choochoo1225pm
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    Moving ... by rail.

    My grandmother was born in 1911. That makes her 96 years old this year, June I believe. Tonight I heard a story about her family moving before she was a teenager. They did it by rail in four box cars. "FOUR!?!" was my first thought, but you have to keep in mind that box cars were a bit smaller...
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    Getting it in Gauge

    I was recently linked to this Wikipedia entry from a comment I made on slashdot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_gauge I had no idea the work was done in such a short time. I figured they would have just done sections between stations and effectively moved the break-of-gauge point over...
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    Rail construction train?

    I don't know what to call this to search for more pictures. My wife (and puppy) and I were in Jefferson City, MO for the weekend to take pictures of their capital building. Between the capital and the river is a small UP rail yard. I didn't take the time to get a good picture, but you can...
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    Horseshoe Curve

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm3sSrwxw2k Some guy named Bob has quite a few older videos of the curve. I just uploaded that one from last June / July.
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    UP Maintenance Equipment

    UP Maintenance Equipment http://picasaweb.google.com/psmyers/20061111TrainEquipment It sat in town for months. One day I finally decided to take pictures.
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    Arkansas Railroad Museum

    A few weekends back my dad and nephew and I drove a couple hours to check out the Arkansas Railroad Museum. I thought maybe this group would be interested in a few of my pictures. http://picasaweb.google.com/psmyers/ArkansasRailroadMuseum It's in one of the old Cotton Belt yards. It's...
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    Tie count

    I'm in no way interested in hand laying track at this stage in my modeling, but I don't mind snapping out extra ties in flex track and manufactured turnouts. Would removing every-other tie render a more realistic look or is that a waste of time? Has anyone done this? What are your results? Got...
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    Pushing through the fog ...

    From weather.com
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    Fast Passenger Service

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7827479039320533510&q=model+railway&hl=en "Drop the hammer, Bob. Lets see what this little choo-choo'll do."
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    Ridable model train video

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3804728256531430546&q=model+railway&hl=en Wwwwoooowwwww .... I still need to make a trip to HALS (Houston Area Live Steamers) but this place looks pretty awesome too (:
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    James May's Top Toys

    I know there are some British blokes around the forums, and surely there are some car guys here too. You all may be familiar with James May, co-presenter of the BBC car show "Top Gear". Well he did a toy show and claims his "absolute favorite" toy is the train set...
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    Curved double crossover

    In search of a hand laid (or prototype) curved double crossover I found this fancy bit of hand laid track. Impressive! But not what I was looking for. Without doing too much part construction in XTrkCAD I came up with this: I'm only curious if a photograph of such a device is...
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    Toot your own horn

    Another YouTube video. This one is kind of original and unique. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnwyg_AbRxg&NR With all the threads about train disasters I think this brings a nice change of pace.
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    DHL Train Ad

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PV0vWjoY8M Pretty funny stuff. But do any of the 'name brand' shipping companies actually use trains as transport? I figured they all used trucks and planes.
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    Double crossover mechanism

    I've been looking for a way to mechanically (without electronics and motors) throw all four sets of points on a manually assembled double crossover section. I found this ... ... but the cost of four tortoises for less than a square foot of realestate is a bit out of my league ;) I'd...
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    Atlas Code 100 Flex Sale

    http://e-hobbyland.com/flextrac36lo.html Atlas Flex Track 36" Code 100 ATL168 Regular Price: $3.85 Sale Price: $2.39 Maybe I'm wrong but that looks like a pretty good price to me. Less than eighty cents per foot. If anybody has been holding out this might be your best chance. Unless...
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    Rube Goldburg

    Office creation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J16dyV4Du8&eurl= Honda commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkzr0naZnZ0 Rube Goldberg was a crazy inventor type fella that had fun with building elaborate mechanisms to accomplish remedial tasks, and bringing lots of entertainment in...
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    Hdr

    High Dynamic Range http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging http://www.backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-create-professional-hdr-images.html The short of it is you take two or more pictures with dramatically different meter settings and meld them together with software to...
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