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- - After Garden Railways' sad demise last summer-fall, I was really hoping that Kalmbach would do what I thought they promised, and incorporate Large Scale articles into Model Railroader. And, after time, maybe they will. So after the GR fall issue, I began getting monthly MR issues, and received March recently. That was generous of them, because my subscription ended in December I think. Anyway, lots of fun material. However, after 5 issues, I've not seen one large scale article, on...
    
    Magazine observations
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    General Discussion
    
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    I would like to introduce my Railway "The Ringabalin Light Railway" a fiction railway that exists in my backyard in Australia. The layout is elevated off the ground with a L shaped corner section built in a 15.5M x 8.5M area of my backyard bounded on two sides by a wooden fence (the "back" and the "side"). At present there are 2 levels attached across "the back" with the lower level being 900mm (35.5") off the ground and the upper level 400mm (16") higher. The plan is for the upper le...
    
    Ringbalin Light Railway
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    Track and Trestles
    
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    I am in looking for pics of the top of the tender on FCM#12. It has two weird box like things on the top. Does any one have some pictures or know what they are? My guess is a tool box for one and the other I cant figure out. I am making a model of the Alder Gulch Loco. Thanks Bill
    
    FMC or Alder Gulch #12
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    Prototypes
    
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    Talk about prototypes here. It's not just trains through the tulips!
    
    I will admit that, until now, I have shown no ability to keep plants alive (I once killed a cactus by underwatering it, for example). Given that the Durango & Jasper is meant to be a garden railroad, this clearly needs to change. Starting from such a stunning position of ignorance, I've decided to take advantage of a lucky coincidence and hire Nancy Norris, the gardening editor for Garden Railway magazine, to plan, install, and teach me about these living things that I will be nurtu...
    
    Planting the Durango & Jasper
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    Winter Photo Thread 2021
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    Model Photography
    
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    Discuss your camera, your techniques, and other things pertaining to photographing your models, or your layout.
    
    The Carlyle train show was cancelled, so my buddy Scott said let's meet up at Robby's and run trains that Friday. The weather was warm enough, but the wind was brutal. I made a few laps around the inner loop and through the new yard before my train was blown over. Even while putting it back on the tracks, the wind was too much and knocked it back over. Scott had one of his RHB cars blown off the layout and onto the ground. So, we packed our stuff up and went inside to hang out with Robby for the...
    
    A short train run at Robby's on Feb 5th
    Last reply by Matt Russell on February 10
    
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    Hey folks I thought I'd get a conversation going about waybills. I've been unable to find a good tutorial on how exactly to set up two- or four-position waybills. Every page I've found so far basically says "Now fill in your waybills with the desired car routing," but not what that means exactly. I'm assuming some giant table of all your industries and in/out cars? Are there any Excel, or other, tools that assist with figuring out routing? (I've been unable to find any)
    
    Setting up waybills
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    Operations
    
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    Into more than running your trains around the patio? Discuss here!
    
    It's probably been 2 months since I've used JMRI to create a switch list. During that time, no thanks to LSC & Facebook, I have acquired quite a few more cars. Being a mostly rainy day today, I wanted to run a train on the indoor division. JMRI refused to build a train with more than one car. A quick look at the build logs showed why: There is only one open car spot at each end of the railroad. JMRI has tons of cars wanting to move, but no where to put them! So, it's time to a...
    
    Too many cars !
    Last reply by Jon Radder on September 18, 2020
    
    Train Operations Software
    
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    What are the best sixe and type of Chuff Magnets. I am putting two on an axle and looking for good performance with a reed switch. For example should I use N42 or N48 strength for best performance especially at speed. Are bar magnets easier to use or should I use round ones. Neodymium magnets are now pupular and have increased magnatism for a small space. Are these now a better choise for chuff applications? Thanks Stan
    
    Chuff Magnets
    Last reply by Dan Pierce on February 27
    
    Problem Solving
    
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    idly mucking around tonight...found this vid of my indoor layout from most of a year ago... https://live.staticflickr.com/video/50015159861/52826cabc9/360p.mp4?s=eyJpIjo1MDAxNTE1OTg2MSwiZSI6MTYxNDQwNzMyNiwicyI6IjFjN2FkODUyNmY3MGMyZWQ5MDc0NjQwM2NmNjY2MzRkZDIxNjM4NmYiLCJ2IjoxfQ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/50015159861/in/album-72157687931388901/
    
    vid of my indoor layout
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    Indoor and Micro
    
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    Not all of us have a yard, or want an outdoor empire.
    
    The Bachmann G gauge Switch Stand #94648 was very much to my surprise very nice looking and works with smooth operation. I thought the scale would be way off, but it does look fine on my somewhat standoff scale shelf switching layout. The video does make it look bigger then it appears in real like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFIvvKHlXME I intend to put switch lamps on some of then and wire them with LED's for a more life looking appearance. I realize these may not work for ...
    
    Review - Bachmann Switch Stand #94648
    Last reply by Eric Mueller on 1 hour ago
    
    Reviews
    
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    Just buy something, and want to tell us all what you think about it? Post your reviews here.
    
    Following the examples of many people I respect, I am going to start keep a written log of our move and the rebuilding of the headquarters of the KVRwy, here. Those of you that have been at our house in Carlyle and at Train Shows like the East Coast Large Scale Train Show each Spring, know that the "Timesaver" and "Inglenook" switching puzzles, that were part of the basement division of the old KVRwy are and have always been my "retirement railroad". Well Jan and I "officailly retired" De...
    
    Re-BUILD of the KASKASKIA VALLEY RAILWAY...
    Last reply by Ric Golding on November 3, 2020
    
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    Looking for a spare jumper/dummy wiring card for the Bachmann J1/J2 plugs.Wiring up a Railpro receiver and would ideally like to use the dummy board. I have a Mogul from Bachmann that came with the card in the box. Recently picked up a used Bachmann K27, which has no dummy card and I found out Bachmann doesn't sell it as a spare part. (go figure...)I know I can solder directly to the solder pads, (and may do that) but thought I'd see if I can find a jumper/dummy card someone isn't using.Thanks,-...
    
    WTB Bachmann Jumper PC Board
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    For Sale/Trade
    
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    Have something train related for sale? Post it here! (Don't take advantage of it, please, or I'll want a %age!)
    
    3 January, 2021 - Ridge Live Steamers, Dundee, Florida . And we start a New Year with Car Card / Waybill Operations here at the Ridge Live Steamers on January 1 -3, 2021. Ran the passenger train to the hourly schedule, yesterday (Saturday). Early runs today are annulled do to rain, but traffic should pick up as the weather moves through this afternoon. We start putting the 116 pieces of rolliong stock away at 2 pm. Jan was the Conductor and Bo provided Secu...
    
    Jan's and Ric's Great Adventure in 2021
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Modeling
- - Hi all, Here's my next project. The Rio Grande had a bunch of these and they weren't used to haul anything; rather, they were used to allow standard gauge locomotives to switch narrow gauge cars and vice versa. The Grande had several yards with three rail track and those yards are where these cars lived. Here's a pic of a narrow gauge locomotive hauling a standard gauge car with an idler in between: I have decided to build one in 1:29 scale. Here's an end view of the car I a...
    
    D&RGW idler flat build
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    Modeling
    
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    What have you built lately?
    
    I have several various types of "passive" track cleaners, including manual, railcar, and engine, but none of them "spin an abrasive" like the LGB track cleaning engine. I did have one of those, but it was troublesome, even after LGB "fixed" it, and the abrasive disks have gotten so expensive as to be prohibitive (>$20/pr and I could go through a couple at a time). I figured that there had to be a more economical way to accomplish this. There is a company (Cratex) th...
    
    Thoughts on Constructing a New Track Cle...
    Last reply by Pete Lassen on February 22
    
    Rolling stock
    
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    Rolling stock
    
    OK, the Mik is astern of us and it is on to new projects, in particular the long-foreshadowed "Rehabilitation of the Missile Sponges!" "Missile sponge" was a Cold War era U.S. Navy term for ships that were supposed to suck up incoming missiles to allow the carriers and, for a while, the battleships, to close for the kill. Here, it refers to the three locomotives to which we gave the crew and most of their friends full access, in effect, absorbing the blows so more expensive tra...
    
    Rehab of the Missile Sponges Part the Fi...
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    Motive Power
    
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    Talk about your locomotives here.
    
    Hi folks The purpose of this forum is to act as a repository of drawings, images, files, etc, of anything railroad related. You can either upload the file, or post a link to it as a message.
    
    Purpose of this forum
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    Reference
    
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    Discussion area for reference drawings and information.
    
    Thought I would start a new thread since we are now talking Metal. to be specific we are talking a Shape ways Process they call "Steel" this is actually a stainless steel and nickel mix if I understand correctly. it is done by distributing a binder to a layer of metal powder, followed by additional layers of metal powder and binder. the end result is sintered to bind the material together, resulting in shrinkage. Below is my current cad file; it shows two cross head locations because s...
    
    Experiments in 3d printing "Metal&q...
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    A good friend and fellow 7/8 scale fan has opened an Etsy shop were he markets 3D resin printed figures. They come unpainted. Here are five of them I recently painted for my RR.
    
    7/8 scale Figures
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    Figures
    
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    Make your own figures, or modify existing ones? Share your techniques with the rest of us.
    
    Devon's been pressuring me on the sidelines to participate in this years challenge. I've tried to bow my way out by making a claim for strict prototype modeling and have no such use for a tin can project. But then Devon politely reminded me of my on going feed mill project that I'm currently trying to finish. Or rather trying to get the parts together again after 10+ years in storage. In sharing what I thought was a good excuse not to participate in the challenge this year, Dev...
    
    2021MIK Feed Truck
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    Annual Build Challenge
    
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    Home of the Napkin Builder. Every year LSC has a build challenge, in memory of a long term member Mik
    
    So my wife has wanted to display her Christmas village stuff in a neat little scene for many many years instead of just sticking them randomly on a shelf. I finally got on board and we made this display this year. This gave birth to an entirely new theme for my On30 layout which I can say is just about to start breaking ground. I scrapped any idea of a realistic looking operations layout. I am going full on Christmas year round whimsical layout. First I have an endless supply ...
    
    On30 whimsy layout need ideas
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    Small Engine shed and machine shop. My 7/8 Climax fits just perfectly.
    
    7/8 building projects 2021
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    Other Scales
    
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    For discussion of any other scales. N? 1 1/2"? Sn3?
    
    Just ran across this in the latest Micro-Mark catalog, anyone familiar with it. Looks like quite a tool and of course it has Micro-Mark's traditional "quite a price", but if it does what it says it will, hmmmm. After reading the ad my first thought was "wonder how fast I could cut a finger off, Devon, don't look at this ad https://www.micromark.com/Wondercutter
    
    Wondercutter
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Power and Sound
- - Ring Engineering continues to release new sounds in their Ultimate format. Late last week they released Heavy Steam ULT to replaced the earlier Steam Heavy sound. I loaded the new sound into one of my two RailPro equipped C-19s to compare them. The new sound is a big improvement, especially on the low end. I still think Ring needs to implement a chuff trigger to improve the timing. The modules have an input line, just need some serious programming to implement it! I recorded some ...
    
    RailPro releases Ultimate Heavy Steam so...
    Last reply by Jon Radder on February 8
    
    Hello All - I recently sold a brand new LGB 28446 with mfx/dcc onboard sound decoder to a customer. When he tested it on his roller wheels test stand with his Massoth 12 amp command station/12 power supply/wireless Navigator digital system, he's getting some low level popping sounds from the sound decoder. He set the locomotive's decoder as follows: CV50=0 All protocols off except DCC; CV29=34 28/128 steps, 4 digit address, analog off.In the Massoth Loco config I set: 28D for speed ...
    
    Brand New LGB 28446 RhB Ge 4/4 Glacier E...
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    Power and Sound
    
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    Late model Accucraft Rubies have electrically insulated wheels! I got my Ruby in January 2020 and had no idea. It is not mentioned anywhere. I found out quite by accident. My testing and running prove that my wheels are electrically insulated. I was steaming on our club layout while the track was energized and another club member was running his track powered train and it did not short out the system. I put an ohm meter to the wheels to confirm the insulated wheels. Meter read infinity. I set...
    
    Did You Know...
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    Live Steam
    
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    For those of you that like to burn your fingers while you run your trains
    
    Very old LGB locomotives use 18 volt lights and smokers 18 - 24 volts........they lack the circuitry and voltage stabilization for using 5 volts lights and the smokers. What device could I install into these older LGB locomotives to allow use of 5 volts devices? I thought perhaps installing the Massoth Power Caps to provide continuous 18 volts input to these 18 volts lights or smokers but I don't think they would work without being connected to a DCC decoder. I feel...
    
    Smoke Units 18 - 24 Volts - How to Incre...
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Shows and Conventions
- - Greetings folks! here's your spot to sign up for doing some bragging at the First Ever LSC Virtual Drag & Brag February 27, 2021 7:00-10:00 PM, EST You don't have to sign up to drag yourself to the event, but you DO have MIGHT want to sign up for a slot to brag about your model. Priority will be given to the 2021 MIK contestants, but anyone can sign up and present. Please don't post comments & questions here, but please do so on the conversatio...
    
    Virtual Drag & Brag Signup
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- - FOR THE FIRST TIME EVERLGB - MARKLIN WILL GIVE A TOUR OF THEIR AMERICAN DISTRIBUTION FACILITY ON TRAINWORLDS FACEBOOK LIVE! PLUS SEE THE NEW CHROME PLATE F7 SANTA FE LOCOMOTIVE AND MORE! LGB-Marklin On TrainWorlds Facebook Live Friday, June 5, 1:30PM EST See the new LGB-Marklin American Distribution Facility.Plus tons of new LGB items to be discussed! Go to www.facebook.com/trainworldllc at the time andthe video will appear on our feed. ...
    
    See The LGB-Marklin American Distributio...
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    I recently installed another RCS battery R/C and MyLocosound in a new version Bachmann Fn3 Climax. This is the 4th version of how I did it. I have done a few of these excellent locos since they came out. This is the is just the second one where I have been able to have everything on board. There is no chopping and cutting of bodywork or changes to the existing Bachmann wiring. The secret is fitting the Li-Ion battery pack up in the roof. Once again, the Australian Sanyo dist...
    
    Battery R/C Climax take # 4.
    Last reply by Joe Zullo on January 19
    
    Please visit the web site https://rcsofne.com/galleries/videos/ to view many videos. See comparisons to other systems, Diesels and Steam sounds. Creating a consist and using pushers. I will try to keep adding videos over time. Plan to add more installation videos for DIY installs.
    
    RailPro Demo Videos
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    If you have not heard, Robbie is having a Thanksgiving Weekend sale. On-Line only. 7% off website prices on purchases $250-$749 and 10% off $750 or more. Very tempting!
    
    Thanksgiving Sale at RLD Hobbies
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Website
- - Hey folks Over the last couple of weeks, the site has experienced odd slowness, usually in the evening. I've been tracking it down, and made some change to help. Watching the site last night, I didnt see any errors like we have been getting the last several days. Still keeping an eye on it. And now, a warning. Complaints about inappropriate content are on the rise again. You know who you are, you've been warned and suspended before. Knock...
    
    Website slowness, and a warning
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    OK ....test over
    
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