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 Posted - October 11 2015 : 12:37:52 AM
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My BOTW is the Life-Like Kramer Home.. The rear has a nice sunroom...
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Posted - October 11 2015 : 1:06:12 PM
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My BOTW is a Pola Made in Western Germany H0 scale depot.
-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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Posted - October 12 2015 : 8:45:52 PM
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A mineral silo by Gary Walford, in El Paso. Recently taken at mall train show.
Nice use of colors, Walt, that lavender is particularly striking. Ah, you will
notice Gary's silo has no light posts. I think you own them all.
Edited by - Chops124 on October 12 2015 8:46:43 PM
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Posted - October 12 2015 : 10:13:14 PM
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Nice Silo, Jeff... About the lavender trees, I have never seen a box of Life-Like Spring Trees with the two lavender colors as these. Seen them on ebay, I couldn't buy them quick enough....
As for the light poles, I still have no idea what I'm going to power them with. May have to use 15 or 20 Tyco transformers to power 16 lights on each one. Don't want to do that though...
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Posted - October 13 2015 : 7:57:10 PM
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Maybe you could mount them on the roof and use them for
Christmas lights. Or you could open a boutique at the mall:
Walt's Street Lights: In Miniature.
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Posted - October 13 2015 : 8:28:01 PM
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| Great ideas, Jeff. I emailed "The Hobby Shop" in the Dayton, Ohio area about power for my light ups. They sent me a reply claiming they had a transformer that was high powered that would light 150 of them safely... $84.00. Didn't tell me the make or I could probably find it on an Ebay auction...
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Posted - October 16 2015 : 8:12:28 PM
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quote:Nice Silo, Jeff... About the lavender trees, I have never seen a box of Life-Like Spring Trees with the two lavender colors as these. Seen them on ebay, I couldn't buy them quick enough....
As for the light poles, I still have no idea what I'm going to power them with. May have to use 15 or 20 Tyco transformers to power 16 lights on each one. Don't want to do that though...
Originally posted by walt - October 12 2015 : 10:13:14 PM
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If you are looking for a reasonably priced high power AC power supply for your accessories I recommend getting an old Lionel Transformer. I use a Lionel transformer to power the Peco switch machines on my HO layout and it works very well.
Scott
Proudly keeping Tyco Pluggers out of landfills since 2016
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Posted - October 16 2015 : 9:59:29 PM
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I don't think you understand Walt's fascination with street lamps.
Walt might be served better with a home generator or perhaps
a water wheel thing driving a generator down river from his
home. He tried using solar panels, but the number of lights
caused the panels to melt.
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Posted - October 17 2015 : 12:13:04 AM
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LOL... Actually , Jeff I had lost count after 225 light ups. But I think I will only use 150 of them, OR, maybe 175.... Heck, I don't know! 
Thank You for the info Srenchin!!
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Posted - October 17 2015 : 10:58:49 AM
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225???!!! No wonder my house went dim the other night! My life will be incomplete
until I own some of those lavender trees. Those are just crazy.
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Posted - October 17 2015 : 9:48:37 PM
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| You know, Jeff... That is the only box I've ever seen with those brighter colored trees. Love to find two more boxes of them. They are called Spring Trees, by life like... The norm is a dull lighter pink color...
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