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  1. skyliner

    Why some reviewers are so bad!!

    They aren't seeking "likes" to feel important, they're probably doing it to make, or try to make money. Once you get enough likes/subscriptions/channel members/etc, you can start collecting advertising revenue. Some video creators are also trying to attract the attention of product manufacturers...
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    Privately Owned Switchers?

    Private switchers you say? I just happen to have a couple pictures I took of those handy in my photostream online. FFG&C 1828 is a rare GP28, originally built for the Illinois Central RR in 1964. I caught it in 2007 working the grain elevator in the tiny town of Dewey, IL, where it spends most...
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    Small Locomotives?

    I suppose this is my smallest steam locomotive. Walthers Proto 2000 USRA 0-8-0 with sound and DCC, late edition (gray box). It's unfortunate Walthers didn't make many P2K steam locomotives, this one is excellent, runs and looks good. Most of my power is diesel however, I just have a handful of...
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    Foam Roadbed

    I used Woodland foam for the track bed on my last layout, I was happy with it. Used mostly HO bed, but also some N-scale under branchlines and industry stubs. I also had some of the large sheets for yards. The layers were plywood, foam board, then track bed. I attached the track bed with Loctite...
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    Silver Streak!!!!!!!!!

    Great, fun movie. One of the few "grown up" movies I was allowed to watch as a kid, as my parents knew I was interested in trains. But no one told me it was inappropriate to yell "sonofabitch!" in grade school after viewing it. Probably also a factor in my fondness for F-units and SP's Sunset...
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    Ha! I've got that GP7 in HO scale! That's a great museum, I love that they basically let you climb on everything. Someday I'll have to go back and try running one of their locomotives.
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    Front End Friday

    GN 181 sits on static display outside the station in Whitefish, MT. She's a rare EMD NW3, only seven were built for the Great Northern during 1939-42.
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    Some thoughts, and questions …

    Forgive me, I only have time for a brief reply right now, but I'll try to share my perspective. I think elevation is fun, and it opens up possibilities for more routes if you can have track cross over other track. One of the main problems, however, is space. For a semi-realistic grade, you need...
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    Alright, opened my photos folder, here's the first boxcar photo I came across. ARMN 912115 mechanical refrigerator boxcar, southbound near Newport, MN. Taken August 2013.
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    OMG ! Another pizza layout !

    I've heard of spaghetti-bowl layouts, now we've got pizza. Who wants to do a lasagna layout next?
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    Switching Saturday

    View of part of Pig's Eye Yard, St. Paul MN. Taken from Mounds Park, April 2009.
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    Bus & Track Feeders

    Well if we're going that way, technically the OP said it was a 4" x 16' oval. That's an incredibly tight curve radius, even for Z-scale. 🤣
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    Front End Friday

    Sorry, haven't contributed to these picture threads in a while. First one I could find quickly: northbound at Titlow, which shares its name with a beach, park, and lake on the west side of Tacoma.
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    Mail Call! Railway Post Office, commonly abbreviated as RPO has rolled in!

    I hit up a couple local shops the other week. I finally decided to cash out the reward points at one of them, as I'll be moving out of the area in the near future. They had put out what appeared to be some "new old stock" items, including this set of Cotton Belt PC&F boxcars, which I think has...
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    DCC Decoder

    To add on to the suggestions above, if you don't have something like it already, consider an inexpensive set of needle files from your preferred cheap hardware source: https://www.harborfreight.com/needle-file-set-10-piece-69876.html Welcome to the hobby.
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