How does one connect a Caboose Industris ground throw with an Atlas Code 100 #6 turnout?
Gene

How many railroads are actualy railways?  Where are they located?  I've known for a long time that it was the C&O Railway, but the same is true of the N&W and the Southern.  All are obviously thought of as being southeastern railroads, though the C&O actually had tracks in Canada and upstate New York. 
What were some others?
Gene

A friend at my train club has found a lot of flexible metal links.  It perhaps came out of something like a bottling or canning plant to move bottles or cans.  It is wide enough to hold HO scale track and has a lip on either side to prevent a train from taking a dive to the concrete.  He thinks it could be used in a helix. 
If I were to put homosote on the bottom, what are other thoughts on using this for my helixes? 
Gene

The company that ordered a new type of steam locomotive called it the Wasatch.  Except for a few company bean counters the rest of the world called it something else.  What?  How many of them were there?

Found some old Railroad Laws and they are really somthing else, Minnesota code which declares A railroad car is a building. Montana law states that Children can not be employed to run trains. Florida says that trains must stop for a Doctor at any place that he wants to get off. Railroad Trestles in Montana are required by law to have sidewalks for cattle. But Washington State is the best was enforced in the early days and has never been removed from the books, A dog shall be carried on the cowcatcher of all trains. The dog is neccassary to put to flight cattle obstructing the tract. The Walla Walla and Columbia roads were the only ones that really ever complied.

From the Milwaukee Road Yahoo group, submitted by Norman Petroski.

Gene

I've found on this forum that one can get good answers to a lot of questions.  I've also found that a lot of people do well with one technique that another finds awful.  Trtack clealing, track fastening, and sub-roadbed are just some of the areas where there are 20 correct answers.   
What about fastening the feeder wires to the buss wire?  Strip and solder, or use a suitcase clip? 
Why?
Gene

Is it necessary to cut the capacitors on a DCC equipted 2-10-2 to install an MRC sound decoder?
Gene

Is there a way to move the throwbar of an Atlas #6?  I need to make two yard ladders and they seem to interfere with a turnout to turnout ladder.
Gene

Obviously the only way to apply homosote to spline is to glue it.  But how about large sheets as in for a yard or industrial area?  Glue or screw.  My club seems committed to glue, but I'm not sure.
Gene

Has anybody experience using sheet rock as sub road bed insted of homosote?
Gene

I know I should know this and I could measure it myself, but is track radius taken from the inside raid, the outside rail, or the center line?
Gene

I want no more than a 2% grade.  How much elevation is needed every foot for a 1% grade and a 2% grade? 
I know there are math whizes out there who can do this and keep their shoes on.  I'd have to go out with a very large protractor and do it physically. 
Thanks. 
Gene

I have got to have one for the Christmas train.  The question is:  Is the cargo for good little boys, or bad ones?
Gene

Mac80c, thou desireth knowledge for thy IHC Vanderbilt tender.  Knowest thou that mine is ancient, a first born.  Yet the coupler pocket is held but with a single screw, a standard one at that.  Unscrewst thou thy screw and into the pocket place therein thy Kadee #5.  It is no mastery for such a labor.  Perchance, thy tender, being of more tender years hast a strange device.  Yet I have Vanderbilts for the IHC 4-6-4, eke the 2-10-2 and they are as like unto the 4-8-2's Vanderbilt as one pea is to its brother.
Gene

Since so many (all?) Bachmann railroad products are now built in China,  we might want to wish each other Happy New Year.   So, in Cantoness:  Gung hay fat choy!   Tomorrow ushers in the Year of the Pig.  In China one buys a new pair of shoes for New Years.  I'm trying to convince my wife that those shoes could be brake shoes attached to a 2-8-2, Mikado being as close to China as I can get.
Gene

An accident caused a large USRA tender to fall from its engine.  When it did the small plug and its wires came loose.  It appears to me that the wires were not soldered together, but just held next to each other by shrink wrap. 
This does not seem to be the best way in insure solid electrical conductivity.
Gene

How about a table of contents in the very front of the photo album, so we know where to go easily? 
Gene

Are there others here who have cars lettered for their private road?  I'm beginning a "fake train" - one with nothing but private roads.  So far I have my own VT&P, two CB&W box cars, two Turtle Creek Central box cars, a Gorre and Daphetid box car and drover caboose, and a Bent Spaghetti Line 50' double door box.  If anybody would like to swap one of theirs for a VT&P box car (special paint scheme for the War Between the States Centenial - gray car with caboose red doors) let me know. 
Gene

Curently there are two G D Line 40' wood boxcar kits for sale on the NMRA site.  You do not have to be an NMRA member to purchase them and proceeds benefit a railroad museum.  All oxther information you might need is on the site. 
It's an Accurail model and makes up nice.
Gene

The benchwork is almost complete.  I have three areas to tie together everything.  I'm down to one folding table and I need to fold up the saw horses and figure out where I can place the table saw - it may have to go on the patio and get covered with a tarp. 
Suddenly, I have a couple of guys volunteering to help.   

Gene
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