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 Posted - February 01 2015 : 12:22:57 AM
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After talking and thinking about it so long, I finally got my track out, some salvaged foam-core board, and started picking out the best pieces of used track I had on hand. I finally found enough to build an 18" radius loop, with a switch and some spur sidings for future businesses.  Took some looking, but I finally found my N gauge spikes which I used for nails to hold the track to the foam board. Did some scrubbie-pad cleaning, and put my Life-Like BL-2 on the track first, to see what it'd do. Ran around fine, no issues! I then tried a Trix Conrail unit, but it was balky at one spot, maybe some track joiner power issues on that section. Then tried a Frisco diesel, it also did OK. Hooked up my 3 Santa Fe passenger cars, which I had finally gotten some matched trucks for before Christmas, and took them out for a spin finally.
So basically I got two things off my N gauge bucket list tonight.  Going to try to get that N gauge loop sceniced somewhat in time. Tired of just collecting, I want to operate some trains now.  Here's a few pictures of my loop and Santa Fe cars.
Jerry
  
The storage case is a long leader fishing tackle storage unit I found at Wal-mart, it holds long N gauge cars very nicely, I put some foam down in the bottom, to hold them up some, very efficient storage box. Overall a productive train day. :)
" When life throws you bananas...it's easy to slip up"
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Posted - February 01 2015 : 01:09:53 AM
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| That's a great start, Jerry... Glad you have it up & running!
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Posted - February 01 2015 : 01:20:10 AM
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Great job, AMC. I'm glad you were finally able to accomplish that.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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