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    WeHonest Crossing Signals

    Despite HOScaledWill's sounding like a add for the company, and a company name like "WeHonest" coming out of China, I took a shot and ordered a set of grade crossing lights. No instructions came with them, and only one set of IR sensors for a double crossing, and no response from the company...
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    Basement Find/Treasure

    Back in the day, my Grandfather was a trolley driver. Going through some boxes of my Mom's stuff this afternoon and I found this little treasure: Untitled by Robert Martin, on Flickr Untitled by Robert Martin, on Flickr Untitled by Robert Martin, on Flickr Untitled by Robert Martin, on Flickr...
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    Green Mountain Railroad Layout Build

    I totally want a 3d printer! My holdback is the inability to design things to print with it. I've tried to teach myself CAD through OnShape's online courses. It hasn't gone too well.
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    What should this be?

    I went into Tomkat's thread Background Flats You can use, and printed off a few buildings then taped them to the wall. Came up with this: Put the little loading shed over one of the cars just to see how it looks. If you pretend the orange hopper is a switcher loco, you could load up three cars...
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    Troy's Midnight Abbey Mythical RR 3rd Edition

    Me, too. 🤣
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    What should this be?

    The area in question is roughly 48" long from the start of the first turn out and is roughly 14" deep. Like I've said, I'm basically just looking for a backdrop industry that won't look too out of place, you know?
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    What should this be?

    I drew it up in SCARM to get a little better idea of what I have. My plan was to make this some kind of industry. The track at the top of this pic, of the back of the picture above, would be the main serviceable track, with the other two as storage tracks. Like I said above, whatever I do will...
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    Troy's Midnight Abbey Mythical RR 3rd Edition

    Hmmm... based off that last photo, I'd say its time to get together with a few like minded fellows and have an Ops session. 🤣 🤣 I'd offer to join if I lived closer. ;) I really like what you're come up with.
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    What should this be?

    Here is a generally blank canvas. What would you build? Chat GPT suggested a lumber yard which, actually, was what I was first thinking about. Image generation gave me this: It would have to all be done with backdrops as the rear most track is up against the wall. Don't know that I'm...
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    Thinning craft acrylics for air brushing

    This!! :D For the cheap Michael's acrylic paints, I found a recipe online for a simple paint thinner: 2 parts distilled water and 1 part 70% isopropanol; this mixed 50/50 with the paint. Works pretty well, BUT, you'll want to filter the paint before putting it into the brush as these cheap...
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    Front End Friday

    I missed a good shot at work the other day. My office is right at the end of the yard where CN interchanges with the local NECR. We get big freights from Canada all the time. The other day a pair of CSX Tier 4 GEVO's were backing up the lead CN SD70MAC which were paused at the station across the...
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    Troy's Midnight Abbey Mythical RR 3rd Edition

    I really like the idea of the night time setting. Really unique. And it gives you all kinds of options for lighting any background and structures you may build. I like the new layout!
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    Troy's Midnight Abbey Mythical RR 3rd Edition

    Just catching up on this thread. Been a lot of activity this week. :) Work on my layout had pretty much been at a stand still for a while when I took a trip to the big train show in Springfield, MA. I realized that the things I liked and wanted to build, I simply couldn't do with the set up I...
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    Are N Scale Couplers Actually HO?

    Saw a photo recently of an extremely well put together and expertly weathered HO locomotive the other day (can't quite remember where), and about the only way I could tell it was a model and not the real thing (again, beautiful work!) was looking at the knuckle coupler. It just looked a little...
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    My Sectional Layout - Please Mind the Gap.

    Been about two weeks since a picture update. Been getting some work done with ground cover and got the bridges in place and track laid. [/url] yeah... about the track... It's all glued down, of course. And I was paying really close attention to tie placement on the rear track with the arch...
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    Local Model Train Show Yesterday... sad...

    The local model railroading club held their annual show yesterday. It is sad to see this show declining every year. Fewer vendors, fewer layouts, fewer people... Granted the later is what drives the formers in that statement, but still, Tony's Train Exchange is located less than half an hour...
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    My Sectional Layout - Please Mind the Gap.

    A moment of excited relief: I slapped the back drop back on and put the module back in it's place last night after painting the facade and side black. Wanted to get the feel for how it was coming along. I put the bridges in place and was excited to find that the shadow from the girder plate...
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    My Sectional Layout - Please Mind the Gap.

    The swamp: It doesn't look as bad in the picture as it does in person. I may decide to rip the whole thing out and redo it. We'll see. The river came out much better. :) I was able to pull of the back Plexiglas dam without issue... almost. The release agent I used was a simple, home made...
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    Trying to identify train set contraption

    I Google image search says it could be a soldering iron or a curling iron. Is there a plug on the end of the wire, or just leads? Looks in a way like the power plug to my electric skillet. Do you have anything that the probe on the end may insert into?




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