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    Ballast - Masonry Sand

    We have a diatomaceous earth mine and mill in our area, it's a gray color. Has any one ever looked at that? That stuff is free here in our area. And is the right size and color. All it takes is a bucket or take a truck and they will load you up. Hey, maybe I should go into the ballast market.
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    Yes, another new guy

    a catch all Crandell I like that idea of a sort of catch-all. It could be lined with bubble wrap or foam and then mount it on an angle. I've also ordered my supper flex and regular flex and it should be here any day. After going to the York England museum and seeing the Mallard and the Royal...
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    An invitation to have a look around...

    photo Very nice shot. Now how do you get it large enough to use as a backdrop? Being from the west coast and having never seen that area other than the airport, isn't there a lot of history concerning red mt. during the civil war?
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    Yes, another new guy

    Hi Jim I got help with one area already. But another one I have is that I will have some tunnels that in one case will be about 3-4 foot long, so the only way I'll be able to trust the track integrity will be from the bottom and crawl underneath. I really don't want to cut into the top of the...
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    Yes, another new guy

    tree party I would love to be there. You just can't get enough of stuff blowing up. It's just the commute from south central Oregon that would get me. But then it's three and a half hours to a freeway in any direction, and 100 miles to the nearest wally world, and I don't miss the any of it...
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    Yes, another new guy

    But my first thread was to solve a problem from happening on the layout I'm planning. The response was great. I'm a retired missile and explosive worker. But then I went back to work raising cattle and hay and that seemed more than I wanted to do so I sold most of the heard. During a visit to...
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    track angles

    I'm working on an HO layout with two layers. In coming down from layer two to layer one on a 24" radius should the track be banked to the inside and if so, what angle? The grade will be about 2 1/2% to 3%. Also this will be my first time with DCC so is there some way that I can set up a sensor...
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