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    A Story of the Minnesota & Western Railway

    The names of locations, industries, etc, have a loose basis in reality--definitely not meant to be an accurate representation. I digging into the research so I would hope it is at least directionally correct. And as I research, I'm finding things that make me tweak the plan a little. My original...
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    Running Bear's May 2023 Coffee Shop.

    Happy weekend...
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    A Story of the Minnesota & Western Railway

    Current situation--Sleepy Eye to the left with a small yard and freight depot, and Walnut Grove to the right with a grain elevator and feed mill. Clockwise is east-bound traffic, counter-clockwise is west-bound.
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    A Story of the Minnesota & Western Railway

    Layout now includes a small yard (Sleepy Eye Yard) and a site for a future grain elevator as I work on getting familiar with JMRI for operations. And a new F7 arrived in Sleepy Eye today to join the SW7. Here's a video of the F7 out for a spin.
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    A Story of the Minnesota & Western Railway

    If you can ignore the ghetto bench work--which is very temporary--here's the inaugural run of the freshly built DCC++EX system.
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    A Story of the Minnesota & Western Railway

    As I mentioned in my intro thread, I had a simple HO layout as a kid in the 70s, but I haven't done anything with the hobby in decades. I always intended to get back into it, and so I jumped back in about a month ago. And as I've been reading a lot of layout threads for inspiration, I thought...
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    Greetings from Minneapolis

    Thanks. I didn't know that. I'll try and make it over there this weekend.
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    DCC Choices: Again.

    I'm using a Digitrax DH163 that runs just fine in analog mode on a DC layout.
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    Greetings from Minneapolis

    I had my first HO set in the late 1970s. I had just a basic loop and built some simply scenery. I then put the hobby aside. I was talking with my wife a few weeks and I mentioned that I would like to get back into model railroading as a retirement (which is still a decade or more away) project...
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