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05-07-2008, 08:42 AM
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new member
Hi guys, Just thought I would let you know about my railroad. It's freelanced and to take care of the fact that I have a hodgepodge of equipment it is tourist slash freight railroad. It isn't based in any paticular time period (at least Not yet), or any particular area (loosely based in western Pennsylvania). It's pretty small, it's in a 10x10 room. It's done in modules so I can add on as room and budget allows.each module is 24 inches by 4ft. At the moment it consists of one small town and a tourist trap section. It will have a lot of country scenes for the tourist railroad. I have a lot of small cabins. to save money I built the cabins with layered posterboard. I make the basic structures out of the posterboard cut to shape, then cut individual boards out of posterboard and glue on. I also make log cabins out of wood kitchen matches. The large matchens scale out to about 9 scale inches. I make porch posts out of the small wood matches, they scale out to about 6 scale inches. When I get a way to post the pictures I will.
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05-07-2008, 08:58 AM
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Pennsy..Cool!
Hi ya Spider, nice to have you join the site! Looking forward to seeing your structure building, as it sounds like we're on the same kind of budget!!  If you didn't know it, there are some Major Rules to deal with- don't want to scare you off or anything, but I think I need to let you know!! They are:
!. There's no dumb questions here.
2. This is a fun hobby, and you do it the way YOU want (you live with it, we don't!)
3. There is no plagiarism in Model Railroading!
4. Participate as you can!
5 Have a nice day! 
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05-07-2008, 04:32 PM
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Glad to hear from you,Spider,look forward to seeing more from your layout,all the guys here are wiliing to help in any way possible,don't be afraid to ask.
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05-07-2008, 05:08 PM
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Brakeman
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Join Date: May 2008
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thanks guys I'l be sure to get some picks out as soon asI can swing the price ofa camera
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05-07-2008, 05:38 PM
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Conductor
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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That will be great,Spider.
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05-07-2008, 06:08 PM
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welcome Spider Nice to have ya here with us. Like all the other guys said we look farward to seeing some of your work and talking trains with ya. We also have a chat room that we use every sunday night around 9:00 eastern time, If you will check you mite fine a bunch of us in there on sat night as well.
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05-08-2008, 04:13 PM
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Welcome To The Whistle Post spider. Enjoy Your Stay Here.
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05-08-2008, 05:15 PM
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Sounds like a nice layout, spider, and by doing it in modules its easy to add on and move it if you have to. I love the idea of the tourist trap section. Look forward to seeing some photos of it when you get a chance.
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05-08-2008, 09:30 PM
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Brakeman
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Join Date: May 2008
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tourist trap
The tourist trap consist of a few log tourist cabins, a general store, and a diner. I have a service station to add to it and I'm thinking about building a pottery shop and an antique shop.
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05-08-2008, 09:37 PM
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Here's a few ideas...
Have some oddity in the middle of the thing "The World's Largest Turnip" or something like that, with a bunch of people taking pictures of it. At the service station, have a wrecker pulling in a car with NY License plates and a bunch of moping people with it!
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Where Alcos, Fairbanks-Mrse, Baldwins, EMD's and the rare GE live on
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