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    What does this mean?

    Another thing that might be worth checking for Wombat are loose or dirty rail joiners. If you have sections of track that do not have feeders connected directly to them and are hence relying on the metal rail joiners to carry the power, all it takes is one or two of these to have a poor...
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    Maybe a silly electrical question

    What Iron means is that unlike a light globe which has it's own internal resistance and hence limits the amount of current that it will draw from a power source, an LED has nothing internally to limit the amount of current that may pass through it. This is why you should always put a series...
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    Building the Andersley Western Railroad

    Great looking layout Alan. It is amazing how much enjoyment you can get switching a layout like this, especially with locomotives that can crawl along at realistically slow speeds. Look forward to further updates.
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    speed matching

    There is a very good video on the basics of speed matching on the Model Railroader MRVideo website There are a couple of good ones on youtube as well - have a look at a few by FishplateFilms. I have speed matched all of mine and they can all be MU'd in any combination Pete T
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    My new Layout

    Awesome work!! I too love the water feature. Great looking layout
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    My first attempt at a U.S. HO layout

    SD24 #448 readys a Southbound freight
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    My first attempt at a U.S. HO layout

    Former Springfield Terminal SD26 #622 at the locomotive service bay
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    My first attempt at a U.S. HO layout

    Truck loading bay at rear of flour mill
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    My first attempt at a U.S. HO layout

    SD24 #448 switching the grain silos
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    My first attempt at a U.S. HO layout

    Wow! Thank you all for the kind words. I will post some more photos soon
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    My first attempt at a U.S. HO layout

    Here is a basic layout schematic. The Upper and Lower loops comprise 3 off stage staging loops each, these feed trains onto the main layout area Overall Size : 20' x 10'6" Min Radius : 22" in helix and Staging loops 24" main layout Turnouts : Peco Large Radius &...
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    My first attempt at a U.S. HO layout

    Attempt at loading a photo using Photobucket Union Pacific Dash 8 #9225 Atlas Gold Series locomotive - originally fitted with QSI sound decoder - now fitted with Tsunami sound decoder
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    My first attempt at a U.S. HO layout

    Thank you all for the kind comments. I will post more photos very soon as well as a bit of layout information Thanks for the tip on Photobucket Jim - I will definitely explore that. Are there any tricks to using it?
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    Ho and oo compatibility.

    Hi all. I'm not sure what sort of experiences you guys have had with the later model Brit steamers but I used to own 11 of Hornby's "super detailed" steamers around 5 years ago. All were purchased new and the level of detail on them was quite superb. Unfortunately, that was where the "superbs"...
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    My first attempt at a U.S. HO layout

    This is my first attempt at a U.S. HO layout. It is a freelanced design loosely based on the Union Pacific and is supposed to represent a rural branch line. The design is a loop to loop, with three staging tracks at each end loop. There is one small town, "Maywood" which has four local...
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