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 Posted - December 19 2015 : 3:59:39 PM
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| Always great to see the progress of your layout Walt. Happy Holidays.
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Posted - December 21 2015 : 11:00:09 PM
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Thank You soo much, Richard! Merry Christmas & Happy New year to you and yours! 
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Posted - December 27 2015 : 11:18:46 PM
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Went to my sisters today in Southern, Ohio to have our Christmas day as we do annually. I received no train pieces at all this year. But as always, my nephew with the HO train interest got me these two awesome slot cars!
However in the last two months, I have bought myself nearly $500.00 worth of new Atlas train track, trees and more. It's been an excellent train year for me !  
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Posted - January 12 2016 : 12:03:09 AM
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Last night I put a 4 foot shop light up over my layout table. I placed it right in the middle aimed across the 8 foot way. It's neatly in between two floor joists tucked up above the bottoms of them.
I always wondered what mods I would have to make to my large dropdown dust cover. But the light shines nicely down right thru the clear plastic so I did change anything..
I will add two more towards the ends of the 20 foot span in the future...
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Posted - January 14 2016 : 10:33:26 PM
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Playing with the phone camera last night.
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Posted - January 25 2016 : 05:53:52 AM
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Took a couple of minutes for a pic on the layout last night.. I should have swept the road off before photo!
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Posted - January 25 2016 : 9:47:44 PM
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| Nice photos Walt. I see what you're saying about dusting the road, but really, when it comes down to it, most roads have stuff lying all over.
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Posted - January 30 2016 : 04:39:34 AM
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a couple of pics of the straight train track areas
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Posted - January 30 2016 : 5:37:13 PM
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| That has the potential to be one busy hub of activity. Pretty awesome Walt.
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Posted - January 31 2016 : 6:49:41 PM
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Thank, Barry The outer track is over 42 feet long ... One side track doubles around and is even longer. A lot of area to display my train cars, but still not sure if there's room for all of 'em! 
I counted 88 train cars on my layout table and stopped counting at 100 more still stored in my boxes. 
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Posted - February 02 2016 : 5:22:42 PM
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| Your scenes continue to be more interesting and colorful as the weeks pass. Thanks for sharing.
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Posted - February 02 2016 : 9:14:25 PM
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Thank You, Richard. I have a few areas that I can get a reasonable photo... Is that a blue dumpster to the left??
Here's a pass by Tyco's Machine Shop...
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Posted - February 03 2016 : 02:41:52 AM
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which is the rear of Grusom Casket Co kit 
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Posted - February 04 2016 : 8:49:26 PM
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New Challenger ragtop in town...
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Posted - February 04 2016 : 9:18:29 PM
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| That night shot with the Challenger and the streetlights is awesome. Makes me want to be standing in that room viewing the action. DCC for slot cars . . . screeching tires . . . shifting gears . . .
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Posted - February 04 2016 : 11:44:46 PM
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NICE. Shoot us some video. Especially of the dumpsters.
Holy Tyco Batman. You have been a busy fellow. I hadn't
checked this post in about...7 or 8 months. You have caught
fire, my dear fellow Tycohead. I forgive you for robbing us
all of every lamppost known to mankind. Those night shots
of the freeway are awesome. In fact, the whole get up is
pretty jaw dropping.
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Posted - February 05 2016 : 12:43:35 PM
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Thank You, Barry!
Chops124, Thank You for all your nice comments...
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Posted - February 08 2016 : 8:33:23 PM
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Looks like a four way street drag going on here...
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Posted - February 09 2016 : 7:40:51 PM
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| I can just about hear 'em Walt.
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Posted - February 09 2016 : 8:36:59 PM
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Man Walt, that layout is just freakin' awesome. Wish I had that kind of room to work with
(ungodly amount of drool here).
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Posted - February 10 2016 : 5:09:58 PM
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Thank You, Barry...
And Thank You, George... Still tons of detailing to be done... But I thank God for what I have and what I have done here..
PLUS, My ProPeak power supply arrived today an just a little while ago I went down and quickly hooked 30 streetlights to it. It worked fine and now I have 64 lights working and it has not even fazed this unit... I love it! And it eliminates a half dozen transformers....
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Posted - February 25 2016 : 02:19:03 AM
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 Lighting some building and poles on the block with the &-UP, KFC and the Machine shop. First pic of 7-UP the flash went off. The Tyco Mercury pole light is working here. It puts off a cool blue light that the flash ruined.
Machine shop with a light in it
Notice the blueish Mercury bulb on the left. Have 92 bulbs working now on the Ripmax power pack.
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Posted - February 25 2016 : 5:05:00 PM
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Tyco/AHM 7up building!
I DO wants!
Life-Like made that in N scale as a State Prison
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Posted - February 26 2016 : 01:49:46 AM
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Yes, Ben... The 7-UP building is pretty cool. I actually painted the building completely before adding other paint color details. It lights up nicely with windows on three sides. I originally thought it was drab but I recommend the kit now to others...
The building lights I am wiring direct which makes them brighter than the street lights that are wired in pairs. I have 92 lights working on the one power box now. This evening I hooked up one of the Tyco Blinking Traffic lights at one intersection... This just keeps getting a little crazier!
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 Posted - March 05 2016 : 8:49:29 PM
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This Tyco Factory was wired up today. It is the 100th light on the layout being powered by the Ripmax power supply. Of course this building does not light up well. The bulb is too bright and the light shows thru the walls. I will address that issue sometime in the future... like tomorrow...
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Posted - March 05 2016 : 10:14:06 PM
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| You must have a pretty healthy wiring harness under that table Walt.
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Posted - March 06 2016 : 12:52:18 PM
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Actually Barry, I bought a 100 foot roll of the double wire clear wrap 16 gage wire and first run it around the bottom side following the slot car track. Then I branched it out here and there and splice into it with the lighted items. The Pro Peak power supply was designed to have a steady accurate 13.8 volts at all times with a fuse incase of a problem.
Explained to me as this is kind of like having a strand of 100 Christmas lights.
The 4 lane lights are wired in a series (half as bright) and the building and 2 lane poles are mostly wired in parallel. I test each bulb before installation to see how bright it is then decide which way to wire it...
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Posted - March 09 2016 : 08:06:57 AM
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Walt, your layout is a thing of beauty.
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Posted - March 09 2016 : 6:41:04 PM
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Well, Thank You, Zelda! Still a long way to go with ground cover , lighting, etc...
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Posted - March 21 2016 : 9:47:53 PM
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Thinkin' of doing this section with ground cover next. I have lights around the Cabinet Factory already. The Tyco restaurants in this section light up well except the HoJo's need a little light bleed thru work... Should be a neat section when done.
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Posted - March 21 2016 : 10:38:52 PM
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Groovy, Walt. Like, totally tubular!
Who makes that Tastee Freeze?
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Posted - March 22 2016 : 3:21:24 PM
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Ice Cream Freezee is an old Life-Like kit from the mid 70's (First cataloged in 1974) ... I love this kit ! Always have...
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Posted - March 22 2016 : 3:32:14 PM
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quote:Ice Cream Freezee is an old Life-Like kit from the mid 70's ... I love this kit ! Always have...
Originally posted by walt - March 22 2016 : 3:21:24 PM
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yeah it was a former McDonald's building
but apparently L-L didn't get total permission to make it 
& so now there are going for $100++ on Ebay 
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Posted - March 22 2016 : 8:17:49 PM
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| Having both kits to put side by side, I can't say that this is the former McDonalds kit. Obviously they used some tooling to make this kit but they are considerably different. The base is quite different, the walls have a completely different pattern on the exterior side. They do have parts of the same like the common garbage cans that were used with the Life-Like restaurants, the benches, umbrellas etc...
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 10:29:37 PM
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See if I can load some pix here...
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Posted - April 25 2016 : 10:48:31 PM
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Found a little traffic running around the layout tonight. A couple of pics taken at the 4 lane split near the 7-UP building... Last pic looks like night shift going well at the Life-Like Cabinet Factory...
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 12:06:26 AM
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Great stuff, Walt. I see one of those magnificent lavender
trees lurking in the background. That four way split has
great visual impact.
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 08:23:21 AM
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All the thrift stores and ebay have been freed from holding their lights and piggybacks hostage...there's none left for anyone else.
Beautiful work!
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Posted - April 26 2016 : 8:23:23 PM
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Thank You, Jeff and bnsfiA... Tonight's pic by the 711...
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Posted - April 28 2016 : 11:42:09 AM
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quote:Yes, Ben... The 7-UP building is pretty cool. I actually painted the building completely before adding other paint color details. It lights up nicely with windows on three sides. I originally thought it was drab but I recommend the kit now to others...
Originally posted by walt - February 26 2016 : 01:49:46 AM
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see WHY I wants one!?
I want to use my 7up semi trucks with it too
Possibly add a rail line embedded in the asphalt too
cause I wanna use the L-L 7up boxcar with building IF I ever get both
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Posted - May 04 2016 : 8:14:28 PM
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After a lot of talk on how to build my table in late 2013, I'm soo glad I used the overkill method of 2X4s. Here's a pic of why I'm happy I done that. My boy thought it was funny today and snapped this pic...
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Posted - May 06 2016 : 7:23:10 PM
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https://www.facebook.com/walt.lewis.33/videos/vb.100001254744767/774037202648097/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/walt.lewis.33/videos/1087109048007576/
https://www.facebook.com/walt.lewis.33/videos/vb.100001254744767/818761034842380/?type=3&theater
Figured how to get these short clips on here. Fire chief (2) is two years old. The train clip, more recent, I have the one train going way too fast!
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Posted - May 06 2016 : 8:34:35 PM
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That is quite the sturdy table
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Posted - May 06 2016 : 10:18:09 PM
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| Yes Zelda, I think you could park a small car on it!! It was too big to not build sturdy. I knew I would spend a lot of time on it!
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Posted - May 06 2016 : 10:48:42 PM
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It's probably as sturdy as my steel desk. I can stand on that w/o stressing it despite being the best part of 400 lbs
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Posted - May 07 2016 : 01:12:33 AM
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| Funny, I just found my thread where I was questioning what to use, etc... Titled, "Building Layout Table Questions"... A couple of members was urging me to use 2X4s for the sizable layout. One interesting thing is I told one member I didn't think I'd be climbing on the table. That couldn't have been more wrong!
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Posted - May 07 2016 : 3:46:50 PM
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| That was one screamin' trooper in that cop car. Cool video Walt.
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Posted - May 08 2016 : 12:50:02 AM
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| Thank You, Barry! Yes took those short clips two years ago. Had to play with them , not even sure if all the track was totally laid down at that time...
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Posted - May 17 2016 : 01:59:55 AM
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I have been recently planning for a 6 inch addition on this left 20 foot side of my layout. This addition will be easily removable if needed. I have too much rolling stock and need more display room. I figure 2 more 20 foot long tracks will allow me to display over 60 more train cars. Don't want to keep these pieces on a shelf or in a box.
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Posted - May 21 2016 : 12:24:52 AM
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Working on the right side of "Center Street". Lighting all 6 buildings with quite a few light poles along the stores. Quite a crown gathering at the Lowe's Theater...
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