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    Got trains under the tree.

    Here's a Holiday thread to get your mind of the flood of friends stepping down at our site. If you got trains under your tree lets see them...Post some pics. I'll start.
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    Newkirk colliery 0-6-0

    I just completed the Newkirk colliery's saddle tanker to work the coal fields in Tamaqua. Now all I need to do is build the mine. So here she is at work on all the track I have right now.
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    train show

    does anyone know about a train show in Wind Gap PA. this Sunday???
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    New trees

    I needed a little brake from a valve gear project that was about to make me go blind, when some dead Tiger Lillies caught my eye in the wife's garden,,,"They look like tree trunks!!!" I said as I tore them from the Earth, family looking on as if I should be in a straight jacket.:eek: So I...
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    Pics from Baltimore

    Here's some shots from the B+O museum. The place is a little cramped ,kind of hard to frame up some of the pics, but I did my best. I'll post more tomorrow.
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    Baltimore trip

    Hay out there :wave:. I'm making a trip to the B+O museum in Baltimore on Aug 1 (Friday) :thumb:. I was wondering if any gauge members would happen to be there the same day. It would be nice to meet up and talk trains in person.:mrgreen:
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    CNJ K-1as

    :thumb:I just primed my CNJ 4-8-0 THAT I have bin working off and on with over the last few years. Now she is ready for paint:rolleyes:. When my rivets (for the valve gear) and decals come in I'll finish up.
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    LNE box car question

    I know that the LNE used box cars in cement service and I want to model a few of them. I think they were the 40 foot black boxes with the white stripe on the bottom of them. Is this correct? And what was there #s? Please help if you can???
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    Railfanning the ANNA Lines

    Got my camera and took some shots along the main.
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    Valve Gear

    I found that designing and building valve gear is very hard:confused:. I am up to try #3 for my CNJ 4-8-0 . :-xI ran out of rivets and had to order more from Trains and Lanes :mrgreen:(my local hobby shop).I was trying to find formulas for the dimensions of the various rods when I came upon this...
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    found something cool.

    wile searching for some CNJ pics the other day I found a web site from a UK club building a small layout of Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) PA. as it was in the 1940's . I can't figure out how to post a link to there site, but if you look up "CNJ AT MAUCH CHUNK" it should come up . Check it out...
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    Cnj #454

    I am looking for color pics of CNJ #454. She's a 4-8-0 built by Brooks in 1899 in Dunkirk NY (later to become part of Alco). I am also trying to find any, Black+White or whatever, pics of the cab interior from a camel back built around the same time. It's for a project I started a wile ago then...
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    Prr Hh-1

    just a few pics of a p2k hh-1 that I just finished.
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    F&c Prr H30

    I just finished my first resin kit an Funaro & Camerlengo H30 hopper. This was a real nice kit to build. It could be a little difficult to put together if your used to shake the box kits. If you want to do one and are new to resin like me try a box car first before you tackle a hopper (the end...
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    Heavy PRR Steam

    I received a proto 2k USRA 2-8-8-2 as a gift:yep:and want to letter it for the Pensey (who got them from the N+W).The model comes with 2 sets of cylinders. A standard and modified low pressure set. I don't know which is correct for the 1940's :?: . I could only find 2 pics of these engines and...
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    A milestone for TOPTRAIN1

    :thumb: Congrats to TOPTRAIN1:thumb: bounce7 balloon6 A new Grandson + Retiredaussie Best of luck :roll1:
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    -o-no-

    :cry:Help I'm stuck in the snow and cant get to the hobby shop:cry:
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    last summer at steamtown

    some pics from a trip to steamtown in Scranton pa. I wanted to post more , but the pics won't upload, ant I only seam to be able to post 2 at a time.
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    backdrop painted in the train room

    just a few pics of the partly cloudly sky in my basement.:rolleyes:
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    backdrop

    :confused: got any ideas for painting clouds with an air brush ???
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