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    Help in help with single track on lower level Drago & East Ridge HO Layout

    The only level trackage is the yard and lower level. The siding by the green building and the Pulp Wood Yard have to also be level. The green building siding is a storage track for cars to be switched on the switch back sidings. The Calhoun passing track is on a 4% grade. Having built the plan...
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    Help in help with single track on lower level Drago & East Ridge HO Layout

    Attempted the trackplan in my youth. Used the old cookie cutter method with a manual keyhole saw. The only flat area is the yard area. The hidden track requires extra material. The hidden track is on zero everything else has to be on risers. The grades are really steep. Wouldn't work as On30...
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    Bachmann 0-6-0 switcher #4439

    Going through traffic on my website came across this thread. The Neo-Lube on the backside of the wheels is to blacken them. Nothing looks worse than shiny wheel backs. No other way to blacken the backs and have electrical continuity. Thanks for visiting Harold
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    1/72 Scale Narrow Gauge Modeling

    Finally got the "narrow gauge" look on the MDC/Roundhouse cars and loco. Easy narrow gauge Harold
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    1/72 Scale Narrow Gauge Modeling

    Dart Castings supplies a line of OO scale wagons and figures which are well done. OO scale stuff scales out well in 1/72. Dart says delivery takes 21 days, yup. Harold
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    1/72 Scale Narrow Gauge Modeling

    Haven't done this in a while. Found these vintage 1/72 cars and trucks. Go to: http://tin-soldier.com/cars.html Made me think about late era narrow gauge. If you extend the cab below the footboard with a 1/8x1/4 piece of styrene and add a new cab side like our mock up, easy late era...
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    Sn3

    That is Scale55 or 5.5mm/ft, developed in the UK in the early 60's. Have had extensive postings about using it for three foot narrow gauge on HO track going back to Nov 2009. http://www.modelrailroadforums.com/forum/index.php?threads/55n3-reboot-proof-of-concept.30505/#post-437376 Even...
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    New 1/72nd modeling!

    Actually no scratchbuilding to have 1/72 narrow gauge. A complete 1/72 narrow gauge train with cars of the correct size can be developed from common HO models. Can't do early narrow gauge without 1/72 and a real imagination. No other scale works without scratchbuilding. The gauge...
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    New 1/72nd modeling!

    From the article: "Most visitors won't notice the difference of this scale. To them, the C&S is simply an HO standard gauge layout with a narrow gauge feel." - Doug Tagsold Modeling Colorado in 1/72 on HO track to most people will still look like HO. Doug's work looks like HO unless you are...
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    New 1/72nd modeling!

    There are certain eras and locales that work better with oddball scales, 1/72 works well for the 1870-80s. If you want to do Colorado in the 1930's there are several expensive alternatives that are better. Oddball things require going out of the box to work. Harold
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    1/72 Scale Narrow Gauge Modeling

    But you post in this thread. It would be nice if you read the thread if you are posting. GEEEEEEZ Harold
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    1/72 Scale Narrow Gauge Modeling

    My only interest in narrow gauge is before the mass extinction and not Colorado, if you follow my posts. Harold
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    1/72 Scale Narrow Gauge Modeling

    No one was building new narrow gauge equipment in the 1930s and 1940s in the US. Just because the body hasn't hit the ground doesn't mean the body isn't dead. Harold
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    1/72 Scale Narrow Gauge Modeling

    Narrow gauge was dead by the time outside braced boxcars became fashionable. The railroads left after 1900 were mainly extensions of bigger companies and couldn't be abandoned easily due to laws or had a single material extraction business model that made high cost "break gauge" unnecessary...
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    1/72 Scale Narrow Gauge Modeling

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