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    my first ever layout

    thanks a rough figure is the rise is 3% from the very being to the bridge, hard to get a accurate measure of the whole thing since it's starts right before a curve the train going up that grade will be pulled by 3 locomotives thank you for the tip and will probably do that or something like...
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    my first ever layout

    finished up laying track early this morning (12:30am) so i put all my locomotives and rolling stock on the track and took pictures i also did a hand roll test of all the track with some of the rolling stock and fixed the few trouble spots well here is the pictures most...
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    my first ever layout

    i'm not sure....a friend did all the bench work for me. how would i figure that out?
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    my first ever layout

    been a little while since i posted updated pictures of my layout. since my first posting i've laid most of my track, waiting on another 30 degree crossing (broke the first one so i had to order another one) so i can finish the lower section. i should be all done with the track by saturday, then...
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    my first ever layout

    yea she would be but she don't go for frisbees though. She has one kind of toy she loves to play with outside and that's about all she will play with. She is part siberian husky and can leap over a 4 foot gate with no problem
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    my first ever layout

    thanks for the suggestion for lowering it but i really don't want the layout 2-2 1/2 feet off the ground. if i did it that low then one of my dogs probably would jump on top of it. if she wanted to she could jump up on it with no problem at 35 1/4" off the ground. i can walk around all 3 sides...
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    my first ever layout

    Because I wanted the middle part to be in a valley and to me it made more sense to drop the middle than raise it. Raising the center would have made it on top of a mountain instead of a valley. The outer most track where I would be reaching over there isn't going to be much scenery as far as...
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    my first ever layout

    finished laying down all the cork bed last night, took a little while for me to figure out how i wanted to do the lowest section
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    my first ever layout

    thank you everyone.....i had a friend that help and he did most of the benchwork for me so i can't take any credit for it.
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    my first ever layout

    i started my first ever layout last sunday and i just got done with doing all the bench work today. it's not based on any railroad and the outer mainline is going to be NS and the inter track will be CSX. those are my favorite engines and thats what runs through my city, we have a CSX far and...
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    Where do you guys get your "stuff?"

    i'm model N scale and i use these sites to order from: Brooklyn Locomotive Works N Scale Supply Caboose Hobby i've also used fifer hobby supply and model train stuff mention above
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    NCE Power Cab not reading the Digitrax DN163K2 decoder

    just checked one of the decoders and everything look ok.....no burn marks on the decoders so looks like i got by without harming it....
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    NCE Power Cab not reading the Digitrax DN163K2 decoder

    i asked this on another forum also and it turns out i forgot to install the kapton tape.
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    NCE Power Cab not reading the Digitrax DN163K2 decoder

    I'm new to DCC and i just got my NCE Power Cab in today and i got out a piece of track to program my 4 locomotives the has DCC decoders in them (i don't have my layout built yet, just buying the main stuff right now). i have 2 atlas locomotives that had decoders in them when i bought them. i...
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    hey

    hey all, i'm new to this forum and well model railroading also. i've always wanted to do on but never really had the room to do it. i now bought a house so i have an extra bedroom so i now have the room. i've love trains from a very early age. i'm going to model modern day trains and will...
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