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    Weekly Photo Fun 9-04/9-10

    Great Pic of Great Northern, I love the Vanderbilt Tenders, seems to accentuate the steam engine itself.
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    Show Your Face

    Here's me and the wife, second wedding, same woman! I cant' believe she kept me, even when I told her the trains had to stay!:p I clean up pretty good. SP Fan from Central Cal.
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    Anybody built a kit from JL Innnovative Design

    I have done some of their N scale stuff and the quality was simple and good, the castings were actually pretty clean for being so small, but can not speak for the HO size but I am sure it is the same quality.
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    Moving up to FOS

    Thanks, I was able to include some N scale parts into it and they fit pretty well and it's hard to tell the size difference. I have built a lot of the Bar Mills kits, and I have enjoyed all of them,the guy's put my Magee's up on their site, and that's pretty cool to show off my work. I can't...
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    Moving up to FOS

    Here are some Magee's Pics, I liked that this was a basics kit and I could have some fun with it.
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    Photo contest theme.......

    Waterfronts.
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    Moving up to FOS

    I forgot to mention, that I have been modeling N guage my whole life, and I am just now switching to HO, It is getting harder to model the small buildings and I have to move up to the larger scale. As I have always known, there are much more kits and engines available in HO and I can start...
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    Moving up to FOS

    Hi Guys, just orderd my first FOS Kit, Tower Gas/Walts Garage, and I am starting to experiment with canopy glue for windows instead of clear plastic. I orderd some of the bragdons weathering powders as well. Pretty excited to jump up to a more craftsman style kit. I hope to post pics as I go...
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    Veteran's Roll Call: All that served or serving our countries

    USN 1984-1990 USS Nimitz CVN 68 Norfolk, VA Bremerton, WA Southern Pacific and a little Chessie
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    Cotton mills?

    Jim, that cotten, gin and textile mill complex in the drawing would be the coolest model railroad industry kitbash ever... wouldnt it be great if someone modeld it for their layout? That would be a real industrial scene.
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    Mountain Scenes

    Very cool and natural looking, obviously you are paying great attentions to the way the water would find its way down the rocks. Great job, and I look forward to seeing more. I wish more members posted scenery in progress shots. The cool thing is once yuo start to sprinkle on the ground foam...
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    Has anyone tried Google Earth yet?

    I use it all the time, and I look up places I have been to or lived in my life. When I was a kid I lived in Italy and there was a high speed train (Rapido?) that ran behind our house every day and night, and I looked up the tracks and followed them all over the country. Great stuff, saw my old...
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    Buildings and Structures; Built-Up VS. Kits?

    :)Oh Yea! You gotta build' em. That's what makes the hobby enjoyable for me, and I actually find the building of the kits, mostly wood, to be relaxing and thereaputic. I actually enjoy the building and detailing the scenes more than the running of trains for the most part, I have been...
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    Transition from Kato to Atlas HO Track?

    Yes it would be nice if Kato supported the HO lines more, good luck with your projects. I like the Kato track, but it sometimes does not lend itself well to making yards and spur areas or transitions to other equipment, etc. It is great when you are strting out becuase the stuff snaps together...
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    Transition from Kato to Atlas HO Track?

    Okay sorry for that , I see you have HO track. But removing the joiners and replacing them and then soldering might fix it, in combination with the roadbed. Sorry again I did not realize you had HO.
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    Transition from Kato to Atlas HO Track?

    Also I guess you can just remove the unitrack joiners, and then replace them with the atlas joiners, and then tack down both sides if the tracks so the joiners hold. Soldering will hold them tight. I am not sire if they make a Snaptrack adaptor in HO scale, I have the N scale version. Again...
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    Transition from Kato to Atlas HO Track?

    Track adaptor link Here is the link to a carrier and the track adaptor http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/kat/kat20045.htm Hope this helps.
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    Transition from Kato to Atlas HO Track?

    Kato makes a transition track from unitrack to flex track, and it is inexspensive. Just look up the kato track listing and find the adaptor section, I am using two of them to atlas on cork or foam roadbed, and just chisel it down until it sits flush. I am using it for the open space on my...
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    Wooden Structures Rule!

    Great Job. I have been wanting to do an ice house, and it was between this one and the JL Innovative Ice House Kit, there is also the Bar Mills Banks Ice House. I have the walthers Cornerstone Ice House, but it just looks to plastic and plain. Your Ice house is similar to it, but looks so much...
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    Union Pacific Age Discrimination!

    Yea, I applied about a month and a half ago. There are no listings for train crew now, just mecahnics, claims adjustors, signal maintainers and a few others, I think they are having trouble getting manager types jobs filled. Plenty of labor workers available. Job openings are in Texas...



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