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[quote user="SteamFreak"][quote user="chateauricher"] I've sent in a suggestion to the producers if they could do a show on how model trains are built.  I'd be very interested to know how these things are put together.[/quote]Now that would be appointment television! I hope they take you up on your suggestion. I'd really like to see the assembly jigs for the steamers.I'm pretty addicted to the show myself. I have people eating out of my hand at parties now that I can dazzle them with my knowledge of how Q-Tips are made. [:-^] [/quote]Uhh. I rather not.I just got done putting together three Athearn Blue Boxcars. I threw away the following: Elcheapo Plastic couplers, plastic wheels and one bad truck that does not track true. I used the following to improve them:Metal wheels from Proto, wheel gauge, Wheel reamer, 148 Whiskers, clamps for the weights and Xacto blade for the door bottoms and spare Athearn items.I do have a curiosity about how they are made, but gotta admit, I want to see the engines like the steam and desiels get made, tested and quality controlled. THAT's what I really want to see.. admit it! LOL.
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