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    Making a missing piece

    I am working on a Master Creations 2-6-6-6 kit from 30 years ago - don't ask my critique of the kit because my mother tried to teach me not to swear! - and it is missing the left half of the firebox and I have two right hand pieces. It is made from cast. I need TWO firebox halves, not one, and...
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    Coupler confusion!

    I have been away from the hobby over 30 years and much has changed. Now, with retirement, I am putting together a backwoods logging road with a couple of Shays and planned to build my own 40' skeleton logging cars from steel (for weight) and wood with Archbar trucks but I am bewildered by the...
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    Getting smaller in Manitoba

    I grew up in southern Ontario beside (what had been) the Grand Trunk line following the north shore of Lake Erie, a line that still ran CN freight behind steam into the 1950s. You could hear the whistle for MILES and as a preschooler I would scamper across the field behind my parents' house and...



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