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Posted by vsmith on Saturday, February 25, 2012 4:46 PM

Seen the cover and Rene's mystery RR is Dave Winters Winter Valley RR, great! Smile, Wink & Grin

   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by Marty Cozad on Saturday, February 25, 2012 11:31 AM

 

 

what??? just kidding.

 Is this the Mike from CA I talked to on the phone? I have a new DVD made by a friend for ya.

e-mail me

cozy6z@yahoo.com

 

 

This is NOT modern enough for you?????

 

I only run steam because I like BIG steam.

 

PS OHHHHH, you took Rene's high school photo down...

Is it REAL? or Just 1:29 scale?

Long live Outdoor Model Railroading.

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Posted by JennyPFan on Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:57 AM

Marty,

Modern to me is the 70's up to now. Nothing against steam engines but I am not really into anything earlier than the 50's which seems to be most of what is in the magazine. I wanted to find back issues but specific ones covering the time period of 70's and on.  I am also not interested in spaghetti type layouts.

Would love to see more video's of your operation as it is pretty impressive but I think I have watched all of them.

Michael

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Posted by JennyPFan on Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:51 AM

Thanks Rene, I ordered Dec 2009, April 2006, and Oct 2008 and got them a couple days later.   The Snake River Railroad is pretty awesome and I will be reading that one over and over.

I am operation minded as well as prototypical minded.  I am looking to model the Milwaukee Road in Lynden, WA in the 70's as prototypical as I can and plan on a lot of switching work. 

Michael

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Posted by Marty Cozad on Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:42 AM

define modern?

 

 

 

Is it REAL? or Just 1:29 scale?

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Posted by dwbeckett on Sunday, February 19, 2012 10:34 AM

Rene S

 

Also, we will have a 1970s themed indoor large scale layout in the April issue. It's fantastic.

How about preview since it's not avaliable.

Dave

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Posted by Rene Schweitzer on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 12:41 PM

We've featured a number of diesel railroads in the past:

June 2010

December 2010

October 2009

October 2008 for starters

 

Also, we will have a 1970s themed indoor large scale layout in the April issue. It's fantastic.

Rene Schweitzer

Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader

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Posted by dwbeckett on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 9:50 AM

The railroads you are looking for are in past issue's. such as Oct 2008.

welcome to the Forum

Dave

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Posted by two tone on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 8:00 AM

Hi Jenny,  You do not show where you are as you can see im in the uk, it helps to know then others may be able to help with any problems.   If you have a copy of the magazine email Rene she will be able to helpSmile

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Modern Railoading on Garden Railroad
Posted by JennyPFan on Monday, February 13, 2012 7:29 PM

Looking to find what issues of Garden Railways had an article about someone's garden railroad that had a modern railroading motif or even a switching layout.  Everything I have here at home are in the other scales which in a sense does not transfer well to a garden railroad. 

Thanks

Michael O

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