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    Built my first kit but had a minor concern

    What was the temperature? Here in northern California, it has been in the low 50s the past few weeks in my shop, so paints and sprays are taking longer to cure.
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    Building My First Layout

    I will get a couple of photos next time I am there.
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    Building My First Layout

    I was at a layout a couple of weeks ago where the builder ran the bus wiring along the front edge of the layout outside the L bracket. The track feeders and turnout wiring ran from the frontside towards the backdrop. The layout was fastened to L bracket about three inches from the from ledge...
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    DCC Ready Turnouts

    the owner of a layout I am helping scenic has been tutoring me in building turnouts using the FastTracks fixtures and guides. it looks fairly simple except....my soldering skills are not yet good enough. He explained the cost benefit of building his own turnouts that with approximately 100 on...
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    Walthes Glacier Industrial Sands

    A nice compact industry for aggregates, not the very large Glacier Gravel or Valley Cement. Empties in and loads out would be my recommendation.
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    Ho scale grapple hooks

    This is a photo from 2007 from somewhere on this forum. Do a little back research and you can possibly ID the source.
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    2 x 6ft HO scale yard layout - Advice?

    Look here at the Gateway layouts and click the Project Layouts link. I like project X (ten) for the amount of switching allowed.
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    Which DCC Manufacturer is your favorite?

    It's a typo
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    The 5 Mile Railroad

    Looking good. I hung out at Monte Rio when in HS.
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    Which DCC Manufacturer is your favorite?

    On other layouts I have operated digitrax, Lenz and MRC. I had Lenz on my previous layouts and have some digitrax stuff that was given to me off a deceased person's layout. That said I found the MRC system the easiest system to become quickly familiar with. The module group I recently joined...
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    Grain Boxcars in the 1950s

    Similar to grain cars, Southern Railway used 40' boxcars with round hatches in the roof and yellow doors to identify Kaolin cars. Kaolin is a clay that was transported as a powder but now I believe as a slurry. Years ago, I modeled a couple and used round hatches from an Athearn covered...
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    Big Boy Tour

    Has anyone seen dates for the Big Boy's west coast tour? All i have seen is Salt Lake City, Sacramento, and Portland, OR but no actual dates.
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    Cordless power tools

    Thanks for all the replies. I purchased DeWalt because the distributor gave me an additional 10% military discount and two additional 5amp batteries.
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    Unusual addition

    In my second career as a transit bus mechanic every night at the fuel island measuring brakes, 8PM -4AM. Not fun,
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    Cordless power tools

    Currently have 19.2V Craftsman set of cordless power tools. Recently one of my battery chargers gave up, the current five batteries I have don't hold a charge very long, and I rebuilt them just prior to covid. I mostly use the drills but miss the handiness of the small circular saw. It may be...
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    Engineer shows industries to model, and really great advice.

    Nice. Thank you. At the 3:16 mark, a question about the brick structure with 1906 on its face. To the building right it appears to be a former roundhouse. I know you stated you didn't exactly know what each of the structures do, by any chance do you know what this particular complex did?
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    History of All Kinds

    233 years ago today, August 4, 1790, Alexander Hamilton's vision of a maritime force to stem smuggling and enforce tariffs to fund a new nation was put into law. The Tariff Act authorized the building of 10 cutters and the creation of the Revenue Cutter Service. The RCS has morphed into...
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    Static Grass Applicators





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