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Bob Cope - 549 views - 1 comment - 0 likes
- posted by Articulating USA Trains and Bachmann plastic arch bar freight trucks.It is my belief that articulation of the trucks on our rolling stock is one of the key ingredients to reliable operation. For those who run their trains on perfectly level surfaces, this will not yield much change. For those who ru...
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David Marconi,FOGCH - 1,570 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
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Though able to find drawings of this early style actual photos have eluded me so some features are best guess and common practice based. These seem to be stalled for 18 horses and two versions were built. The difference between the two being the later one had a water pi...
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David Marconi,FOGCH - 2,683 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
- posted by In building my Passenger car fleet, I have hit a few snags that I have had to work around. Some not so bad some real head scratchers. When I first got into large scale I bought 9 Aristo streamline passenger cars. They were a miss matched bunch of road names as I rework everything I buy before it hit...
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Bill Bagley - 2,242 views - 0 comments - 2 likes
- posted by Bought a case 8, of these little beauties some time ago. What run they have had has been on a10' dia. curves. Cold this winter in H town.
. Set up a Christmas tree type layout w/ 4' d curves, S's these cars would not make the S's axle CL part of the problem. Needed to enlarge the pocket for the lin...
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Dick Friedman - 3,778 views - 0 comments - 1 like
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Installing Body Mounted Kadee Couplers
Richard Friedman
If you did as I did, you started collecting Large Scale equipment based on whether they appealed to you or not. A familiar railroad, a favorite industry (beer cars come to mind), an associa...
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John Le Forestier - 3,250 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
- posted by If you know how to make these images actually show up here, please fill me in. Meanwhile, here are the links. Thanks for looking. Cheers!http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/choochoo_chaboogie/Upload01-04-800px.JPG
http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/choocho...
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Mik just Mik - 5,902 views - 2 comments - 0 likes
- posted by Prototypical flatcar loads
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Steve Featherkile - 2,720 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
- posted by I originally posted this in the modeling forum, about eleven years ago. Since it took me a long time to find it again, I decided to save it here in the articles section, so that it will be easily retrievable. Hopefully, someone will find it useful.
Rather than use Kadees for this car, what ...
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Bruce Chandler - 4,133 views - 2 comments - 2 likes
- posted by Making Strap Steps
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Bruce Chandler - 3,409 views - 0 comments - 0 likes
- posted by When Jean and I attended the ECLSTS at York in 2006, we also went to the Pennsyvania RailRoad Museum in nearby Strassburg. It's a great museum with lots of good stuff to look at. I was intrigued by one particular piece of rolling stock there.It's a composite car. It has a ste...
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