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Chat Room |
Posted by: ngauger - 03-08-2009, 05:22 PM - Forum: Forum Announcements
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We've been using the Chat Room for a while now.. A few of us think it's time to set up a "Formal" Chat night... (Thanks LiveSteamer)
It seems that most of us are able to get in there on Sunday nights, from 10 - 11 PM Eastern Time so we'll start with that...
Everyone that would like to chat with each other "real time" try to be there.. If you can't make it Sunday nights, A few of us are oline most every night at the same times...
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Doubleheaders Layout Tours -- southwest Ontario |
Posted by: BR60103 - 03-07-2009, 09:25 PM - Forum: Upper Berth
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The doubleheaders are having their drive-yourself home layout tour again this year on March 28.
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This is a major event. There is a large number of layouts open; in fact, you cannot see all of them in one day if you want to do justice to them.
The registration is in Hespeler. The cities involved are Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph and Cambridge, but also go out to Aberfoyle, Baden and St Jacobs.
Lots of Canadian trains but also the major US lines, British and some years European. Master modellers and Tinplate rails, Lego and Thomas.
(Warning: the maps they sell you are not the best -- you might want to obtain some commercial maps!)
(I can't go this year -- scheduling conflict.)
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hi all |
Posted by: rogerw - 03-06-2009, 05:26 PM - Forum: Hobo's Camp
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I just found the new site a week ago. Glad to see it up and running , reminds me of the old gauge. This kinda reminds me of when I was a kid, my parents would send me off to school in the morning and when I come home at the end of the day from school they had moved. It would take me days to find the new house then we would laugh for days . Anyways glad to see you all again and hope im welcome here. Thanks roger
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Southern Utah T-Trak |
Posted by: Jesso - 03-06-2009, 02:28 PM - Forum: Modular Modeling
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Time to move this over here:
Hello all!
As our club does not have a permanent location to meet, we don't have a place to build a layout at. When we have our regular meetings, we can't run trains (a big problem for a train club ) For the past year or so, I have been trying to come up with some way to build a layout that we could carry easily and put together quickly and take down quickly. We have the bend track modules, but at 4x3 for each of the two balloons, they aren't transportable in my little car. We came up with several ideas, but all were starting from scratch with measurements and building. Finally, I heard about T-Trak (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://ttrak.org/">http://ttrak.org/</a><!-- m -->). The modules are REALLY small and they are light and they setup VERY quickly. I was watching a Youtube video of an Australian T-Trak club and they put together a large yard in seconds, that was good enough for me. Plus all the measurements were already done so no reinventing the wheel!
Minimum you need four corners, and also some straights to add some length. We glued the modules together one night:
Straight Module:
Corner Module:
You set these up on a table, so you put bolts and T-Washers on so that you can level them. Here are the undersides of the modules:
Straight:
Corner:
A few of our members do not like the 3-tracks on N-Track, so they were happy so see it is only dual track. Here is what the modules look like with track on:
Straight:
Corner:
Will start painting these soon and decorating them. I am hopeful that with their small size, I can get lots of people around here interested in building their own little piece and the layout will grow and grow. For now I am building 4 corners and 4 straights and Mooreway is building six straights, will show more pictures as we update them.
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Kato passenger trucks |
Posted by: Wiredup - 03-06-2009, 11:31 AM - Forum: N/Z and Smaller Modeling
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I'm building a fleet of passenger cars and have noticed that the only passenger cars that can get around my layout without skipping the rails are my Kato cars.
But it's not just from the 11" radius's, the wheels on the Kato's seem to roll smoother in general...
So of course my question is:
Has anyone retrofitted some Kato trucks/couplers onto Con-Cor or Walthers passenger cars?
I got a nice fleet of Concor cars with microtrains couplers/trucks on them that are just terrible on my layout, and the Walthers cars can't even handle a 15% curve without derailing...
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