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    Greetings from California

    Grass Valley by way of Marysville by way of Montreal (that last one not California, but very much so in spirit). Love Northern California, but not crazy about the drivers in the LA and SF areas. Lots of rail activity in the Sac area, and we have a family membership in the California State...
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    Suspending layouts from the ceiling.

    Advanced search using.... Well... I just checked the entire forum in advanced search using suspended layout ceiling, and found a thread called "Layout progress photos for SFJ" started by Santa Fe Jack in the HO Scale Model Trains forum in July 2006. Went to his website at Tauxe's HO Train...
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    Suspending layouts from the ceiling.

    Searched... but maybe not the right words... Yup. Searched "Track Planning..." using ceiling suspended suspended ceilingNot a lot of luck, and that's why I titled my original post the way that I did. Hope somebody in the future finds it of some use. Checked the FAQs as well. Didn't check...
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    Suspending layouts from the ceiling.

    The way our house is constructed, the beams that support the plywood of the angled roof, have a second set of beams directly below them, sort of cantilevered. There are no flat ceilings in the upstairs. It's cathedral ceilings everywhere. What they did do in the den, is to slap some gyproc...
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    Suspending layouts from the ceiling.

    Hi all, I was at the train show in Sacramento last weekend and had the opportunity to talk to one of the members of the Sacramento Model RR Club (Historical Society?) as he was trailing his assigned train around the track that they had set up for the show. I overheard him talking to someone...
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    Newb from Sierra Nevada

    No sweat. We work for Wildlands, Inc. We're the largest Mitigation Banking company west of the Miss, and east of it too, if I'm not mistaken. We're proud of what the company does, and what we do to help it do what it does. Thanks for that info. I am now determined to re-examine the N locos...
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    Newb from Sierra Nevada

    Well, she actually has a degree as a botanist, but she fell into GIS when she needed to create some maps of habitat and wildlife locations for the company that we both work at. She is now in the process of getting a second degree, this time in Geography at Sac State and Sierra College so she...
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    Newb from Sierra Nevada

    Well thank you kindly. We live in Grass Valley, work in Rocklin, and I go to Lodge in Yuba City. We met a man a year or so ago at a local model railroad convention meet in Roseville and bought boxes of old copies of MR from him. He worked up at Portola in the museum and was a big Western...
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    Newb from Sierra Nevada

    Howdy all, My name is Ed, and my wife Diane put me onto this website with it's variety of forums. We're getting started on our first joint model railroading venture (I used to model N scale in my younger days, and her father left a ton of N and HO equipment behind when he passed away a few...
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