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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:57 PM
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Posted by guilfordrr on Thursday, August 26, 2004 7:45 PM
Welcome to the forums ho-ing![#welcome]Man, talk about opening Pandora's box! However, Lionel all the way[:)][:D][8D][;)][:)][:D][8D][;)]
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Posted by guilfordrr on Thursday, August 26, 2004 7:48 PM
You also might want to move this to the Model Railroader forum.
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Posted by CBQ_Guy on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 1:06 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by guilfordrr

You also might want to move this to the Model Railroader forum.


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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:12 PM
"Lionel" is "O" scale.... and then there is Scale 2-rail and Hirail
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Posted by espeefoamer on Thursday, September 2, 2004 2:31 PM
HO is easiest to work with since so much is available[:)].
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Posted by egmurphy on Thursday, September 2, 2004 7:24 PM
Seeing as how this is the "Classic Trains" forum, and not "Classic Toy Trains" or "Model Railroader", I thought that the appropriate answer would be 12"= 1' . [swg]


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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 16, 2004 2:44 PM
since we are on the topic of questions,can some one answer this for me. ?????what is the difinition of" peddler freight" and way freight????? thanks guys.
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Posted by route_rock on Thursday, September 23, 2004 5:09 PM
Peddler or way freight is your basic local.Go out and pick uip and drop off loose cars at industries along the lines.BTW HO or Large scale and so what if hes in this forum [:D]

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Posted by railman on Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:54 PM
yeah, guilfordrr , this is THE pandora's box of the forum...if people get fired up, I'll predict no less than 25 pages....ha ha .
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Posted by ValorStorm on Saturday, November 13, 2004 4:51 PM
Z is really the best, as long as ya' don't have any rolling stock.

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