I noticed something interesting the other night when I accidentally knocked off a piece of blue foamboad that I had glued to my layout. I had used liquid nails as glue, but where the glue once was was now a cavity. It seems the liquid nails had "eaten" some of the foam. This was much more apparent on the cut edge of the foam rather than the original flat side.

I have used two types of liquid nails - liquid nails for projects (with a red lable, I think), and one that says liquid nails for projects & "foamboad adhesive". Both seem to have the same problem. After re-reading the label on the back, it says not recoomended for gluing "foamboard to foamboard". I bought a different brand of foamboard adhesive last night, and have yet to test it out.

Has anyone else had this problem? What have you used to glue foam to foam?

Hi all,

Quick post to welcome a friend of mine in the U.K. ........ Poliss

Hope you find it helpful here Poliss a good friendly bunch of guys here

I am trying to bend Evergreen 3/32" tube with much difficulty and little success. The guy where I bought it suggested heat from a candle. That almost works but not so hot. I guess I am saying HELP!!please

we guys here it is a good friend stopped by today with a train set we had from when he was a kid. he is thinking on selling it but would like to know what to ask

here is the info i got it was made from AHM in 1974 it is ho scale and it is all in the orignal box with . it has a 48" oval for the track and the power box as for the loco it is old f unit in the road markings of baltamore and ohio. and their is a red b&o cabose a tanker a box car and a flat car that all cars and loco looks that they never been ran. and they all have their boxes. their is also a catalog from the company with all their prices for the same year.

if any of you guy culd help me out on this it would be great . i couldn't get pics of it due to wife had cam at a wedding will try to get some as soon as i get my cam back

thanks guys for the help.

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To celebrate my impending 50th birthday , my wife & I are thinking about going on the Agawa Canyon train in late-September but are a little concerned about the long journey which is apparently 9 or 10 hours from Toronto. How difficult a drive is it? Just curious if anyone — who has gone on this train trip before -- has any tips or suggestions. I believe you can you do the whole thing in 3 days (i.e. Allow two days for driving in either direction & one day for the train).

One of our concerns is that we’d have to leave our two young sons with friends and would not want to do this for more than three days / two nights — it would be too hard on our friends!

Also, are there more than one tour train? I seem to have come across two different websites/railway companies?! Of course, I'd be interested in going the more retro/1950s train.

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OK, I've just read further on one of the websites and there ARE two different trains that share the same line. This is all news to me but I'm sure excited if it would be possible to go on a 1950s train. Again, open to advice and feedback.

Thanks in advance,
Rob

I just received an email from the old site asking me to go through all of my old posts, 4,755 posts, and remove any links in said posts to commercial sites. I haven't been to the site since I left to join this one other than to see what P.M. they were notifying me about. I guess they can ban me. I certainly don't have the time to fulfill their request, and I don't want to waste that much time with them regardless.

I was at a friends house yesterday, and was going to show some of the photos I had posted on "Z". Got the dreaded "Red X"!!

I didn't realize until this morning that one must be "logged in" to see the photos. In the process of finding this out, I happened to take a moment to read MS' "reasons why", about deleted links.
Being somewhat confused, I ran the post through my "Universal B******t Translator.
The results were. . . well, take a look----- "We deleted all links because we are greedy and want to make our fortune now!, and not have to wait. Your links benefit others and we don't get the money we want. Greed is good! Step between us and our greedy desires and we will delete you. One small step for greedyness, and one enormously gigantic leap for greed itself ."

In slight disbelief, I recalibrated the translator, and got the same results. Oh, the translator indicated the post was made by "AP". . . . . the tech manual indicates that abbreviation means Apex Predator. . .shark? AP? it figures.

Foolish me, I thought even apex predators stopped eating when they were full.

Hi guys,

I have been fitting backboards to the layout and of course have the join lines now to disguise ...... the scene is warehouse/industrial with sky behind them what methods have you used that wont show but allow the boards can be pulled apart when needed? eg: house move

Yesterday morning at work, I heard a loud "thump". Being in the building, I didn't hear the whistle or the warning signal at the crossing near the building that I work at. Figuring it was just the sound of construction going on near us, (I got used to the sounds of thumps etc) I went on a patrol.
I started hearing sirens, then saw a whole slew of emergency vehicles come to the front of my building. At first I thought some idiot had called 911 as a joke and then when I saw the GO train stopped and cops walking along the track, my heart sank. I reached the area, saw a pickup truck at the crossing with its front end smacked in, (the signal arm was wedged behind the back of the cab) and asked the cop if anyone was hurt. He replied 'no' and kept searching. I found out later they were looking for the license plate of the truck which was sheared off (they found it).

What had happened was that the truck approached the crossing, stopped at the last second, had the arm hit it and tried to back up. The train came by and smacked the truck's nose. The leading edge of the hood and fenders were neatly crushed in, the bumper was crushed, and the plate, grille and headlights were very neatly sheared off the truck. It almost looked like the parts were taken off carefully as I couldn't see any bits hanging on to the truck. I overheard the guy saying that the arm came down abruptly before the signals and lights activated so this remains to be seen in court. The crews were at the scene for the rest of the day after the cleanup was done testing the signals and checking the tracks for damage.

Heard the news broadcaster giving his broadcast later and apparently the guy is facing over a thousand dollars worth of fines as he was charged with "Making an improper stop", "Ignoring warning signals", "Failure to have an insurance card" and "Operating an unsafe vehicle". That broadcast may have been seen on CTV.