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  2-24-17 Happy Birthday
Posted by: ngauger - 02-24-2017, 05:05 AM - Forum: Hobo's Camp - Replies (1)

Happy B-day

Herc Driver (53)

And many more!!!


train Waveof7 548

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  Weekly Photo Fun 2/24 - 3/2/17
Posted by: faraway - 02-24-2017, 02:28 AM - Forum: Shutterbug area - Replies (6)

Photos proof SOO replaced ex MILW MP15AC with SOO GP9 (photo is a GP7) doing local jobs in Chicago in 1996. All those jobs are done by MP15AC in 1986. Anybody here knows when the SOO GP9 started doing the former MILW MP15AC jobs?
This one of my oldest Atlas models but it still runs perfect. It deserves a ECO Tsunami next week.

[Image: 32239272574_ce442fbff3_c.jpg]IMG_5420 by faraway52, on Flickr

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  Chat room opinion
Posted by: ezdays - 02-22-2017, 02:24 PM - Forum: Hobo's Camp - Replies (5)

Does anyone here use our chat room anymore? Let me go check.......... uh, NO, one post there this year and it didn't belong, a few last year and gee, nobody is really chatting anymore, at least not like the old days. There was a time with our old chat room, that there was a specific time that we got together and just talked about anything. Anyone got any ideas to get things going again? We can do a few things, one is when we make changes to Big Blue, get an improved chat room that might attract some, or we can just do away with it if there's no interest. Packey says that the new software could include a choice of some better chat rooms than what we have now, but we need to know if it's worth his time to implement one....

Anyone got any thoughts on the subject??????

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  Continental Modeller Magazine Free
Posted by: TinGoat - 02-19-2017, 07:24 PM - Forum: Swap Meet - Replies (9)

Hey Kids,

I've got a stack of a couple dozen magazines free to a good home.

Mostly Continental Modeller Magazine

Prefer to give them to someone in or near Toronto, Ontario, Canada so you can pick them up or I can drop them off without dealing with postage.

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Sent from my SM-G903W using Tapatalk

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  Walthers Turntable?
Posted by: BATMAN - 02-19-2017, 12:20 PM - Forum: Engineer's Technical Workshop - Replies (2)

Hi all.
On the Walthers 90' turntable, there is a "no track" area on the diagram. My question is can there be any overlap into this area with say even a few millimetres of the edge of one track, or does it completely have to be outside the shaded area? Thanks for your help.

Brent

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  2-18-17 Happy Birthday
Posted by: ngauger - 02-18-2017, 06:12 AM - Forum: Hobo's Camp - Replies (2)

Congratulations to:

e-paw (43)

Happy B-day And Many more!!!!

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  The ditch light era
Posted by: Rscott417 - 02-17-2017, 08:31 AM - Forum: Strictly Rail Operations - Replies (2)

I'm curious to know when ditch lights started to become implemented. I have a Conrail GP38-2 that'll be modeled after a prototype around 1995-98. The most recent picture I've seen of the prototype is in 1993 without ditch lights. I know there's always an exception to the rule with everything we come across with model trains but I would like to narrow it down. I'm leaning more towards installing them.

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  Weekly Photo Fun 2/17 - 2/23/17
Posted by: modelsof1900 - 02-17-2017, 07:09 AM - Forum: Shutterbug area - Replies (5)

Not a large thing, rather small details.

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Rather smaller details - oil lamps for my current caboose project.
Some more pictures on my website.

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  HO MTH SD70ACe
Posted by: Lester Perry - 02-14-2017, 04:53 PM - Forum: Engineer's Technical Workshop - Replies (3)

A friend has one of these and is trying to remove the shell. He can get the rear loose but not the front and there is no instruction on how to do this in the paper work. Can anyone help?

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  WTB Mainline Modeler magazine
Posted by: Wayne R - 02-14-2017, 09:31 AM - Forum: Swap Meet - No Replies

I am looking for a copy of the August 2001 Mainline Modeler magazine. If anyone has a copy they wish to part with let me know.

I would also be interested in a scan of an article from the above issue. The article is about building EMD hood sides using Cannon & Company parts.

WR

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