I like your suggestions, Linda. Actually they are quite close to the list that Bill, Rich and I have worked up using your previous suggestions as well as...
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knewton@xxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 1, 1999 9:52 am
Hi All: A question I get asked alot and I see come up on this list quite often is " What are the first steps in designing a layout?" There are no set in stone...
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TNTurner1@xxx.xxx
Nov 1, 1999 11:24 am
In a message dated 10/31/99 8:25:24 AM, cdjhyoung@... wrote: <<We also run session sequentially, picking up one session where ever that last one stopped....
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Terry Harrison
terryharr@xxxxxxxxx.x...
Nov 1, 1999 12:55 pm
From Terry Harrison terryharr@... Bill Hirt brings good news to the modeling scene. The expense is minimal at best. There is no reason the...
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Railliar@xxx.xxx
Nov 1, 1999 1:39 pm
In a message dated 10/31/99 8:06:50 AM Mountain Standard Time, jcure@... writes: << or example 6pm friday nite, or like at Gary's 1pm sat.) Why not have...
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dhusman
dhusman@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 1, 1999 4:17 pm
... ========================== This is one of the hardest concepts to tranfer to people to operate prototypically. Most operating sessions I have been...
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dhusman
dhusman@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 1, 1999 4:22 pm
... and ... not ... ===================== Well that sounds like that really limits the utility of that program. Car cards don't seem to have that type of...
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Jon Cure
jcure@xxx.xxxx
Nov 1, 1999 2:32 pm
FWIW I would like to see DCC plug in Brass locos. Any thing to make life easier. JonC.............SP Inyo Sub. Mojave to Battle Mountain over Montgomery Pass ...
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Dick Lord
rhl@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 1, 1999 3:55 pm
... Fluorescent lamps provide visible light indirectly by means of a phosphor coating on the inside of the glass tube. The plasma within the tube emits ...
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Doug Geiger
dgeiger@...
Nov 1, 1999 4:25 pm
Someone in our Colorado ops group wants to subscribe to the LDSig/OPsig email group. How do they do it ? -Doug Geiger...
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J Anthony Koester
jkoester@...
Nov 1, 1999 4:26 pm
... ___________________ I used to worry a lot about stuff like this. Then I built the AM and equipped it with cool-white fluorescents. After 20 some years, I...
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J Anthony Koester
jkoester@...
Nov 1, 1999 4:50 pm
... ________________________ One reason we're all struggling with a definition for "prototype modeling" is that the definition is changing before our very...
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D & L Sand
sandsys@...
Nov 1, 1999 5:02 pm
... I worded that very carefully for just the reason Tom says. Where would I be today if Bob Johnson, owner of the Pseudo Soo Line, had not welcomed a totally...
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D & L Sand
sandsys@...
Nov 1, 1999 5:02 pm
Excellent guidelines, Kelly. The only thing I do differently is have several prototypes in mind then see which fits my footprint best while providing...
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Jon Cure
jcure@...
Nov 1, 1999 5:14 pm
Still want to know what we're gonna call folks who model a fictional division (or other portion of) a prototype road. Like Myself, Joe Fugate and Gary Siegal. ...
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Laube, Rich
RLaube@...
Nov 1, 1999 5:49 pm
Dennis, Good to hear that your are going ahead with the smaller coupler. I have been using the KD 711 coupler for at least 20 years. My experience has shown...
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Jon Cure
jcure@...
Nov 1, 1999 5:52 pm
Oh No! Terry, we have the best of both worlds. If there is that odd piece of equiptment you gotta have, but you favorite road didn't (say a drovers caboose for...
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Dick Lord
rhl@...
Nov 1, 1999 6:25 pm
From: rod@... (Rod Miller) ... Actually the flicker rate is 120 times per second from conventional ballasts, but it is still noticeable and annoying....
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Eric Hansmann
ehansman@...
Nov 1, 1999 6:29 pm
... As long as I'm happy, I don't care what I'm called. Much of my railroad will follow the prototype Western Maryland line from Elkins to Thomas, WV. I am...
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J Anthony Koester
jkoester@...
Nov 1, 1999 6:31 pm
... ________________________ We had a discussion about icing reefers last week when Don Daily (ex-NKP engineer out of Frankfort), Bill Darnaby, Perry Squier,...
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J Anthony Koester
jkoester@...
Nov 1, 1999 6:46 pm
... __________________ The "scale" coupler Accurail showed at Chicago was intriguing and caused a lot of subsequent discussion, as did the ReBoxx "scale" and...
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J Anthony Koester
jkoester@...
Nov 1, 1999 7:03 pm
Several observations about a recent Maumee operating session may be of interest: 1: The aisles were a non-issue. We had two-person crews (more than enough...
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DjM
shazada@...
Nov 1, 1999 7:18 pm
... Tony, I've got two extra miles at the end of the DT&I's Napoleon Branch in Napoleon, Ohio. Access via the NKP interchange @ Malinta. David -- webmaster,...
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Don Mitchell
donm@...
Nov 1, 1999 7:24 pm
Tony K's comments about Code 88 wheelsets prompts me to comment about Tehachapi experience with same. We find they track best when their spacing is set to the...
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Don Mitchell
donm@...
Nov 1, 1999 7:24 pm
Tony K's mention of code 88 wheelsets reminded me of something our car department ... Helping build the HO scale Tehachapi Pass layout of the La Mesa Model ...
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Chris Webster
cwebster@xxxxxxx.xxxx...
Nov 1, 1999 7:53 pm
I'm in the process of remodeling the "upstairs" before I get around to finishing the basement. As I'm going to rip out most of the one bathroom that is one...
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J Anthony Koester
jkoester@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 1, 1999 8:00 pm
... _______________________ The guest bathroom (formerly kids' bathroom) is right above the yard at South Fork on the AM (Charleston, Ill., on the NKP), and I...
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J Anthony Koester
jkoester@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 1, 1999 8:24 pm
... _____________________ Mark has done a good job with NKP decal sets as well. Off list, please contact me if you are interested in helping us work with...
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Byron Henderson
bhenders@xxxxx.xxxx
Nov 1, 1999 8:44 pm
... I have operated at 1:1 (the most often), 4:1, and 10:1. For me, anything over 1:1 felt very rushed. Some of that is undoubtedly personal preference, and...
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J Anthony Koester
jkoester@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 1, 1999 8:42 pm
... ____________________ We all gotta set priorities, Chris, and for the next several years, the very last thing I should be doing is superdetailing late-model...
