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Posted by Randall_Roberts on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 8:08 PM

The pages with the videos have a pull down menu that let's you select MPEG 4 or Flash video.

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Posted by loathar on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 4:50 PM
 Randall_Roberts wrote:

Reality Reduced is a series of online podcasts by Leo Bicknell.  He has one episode on ballasting, in which he gives his mixture information.  Another is on wiring NTrak modules.

Here's my list of links to the individual episodes:

http://modeltrains.about.com/od/nscale/tp/reality_reduced.htm

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Do you happen to know what software is needed to play those podcasts on a PC? I can't seem to get them to load and play.(Quicktime??)

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Posted by Randall_Roberts on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 2:00 PM

Reality Reduced is a series of online podcasts by Leo Bicknell.  He has one episode on ballasting, in which he gives his mixture information.  Another is on wiring NTrak modules.

Here's my list of links to the individual episodes:

http://modeltrains.about.com/od/nscale/tp/reality_reduced.htm

Best! 

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Posted by jrbernier on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 1:36 PM

  The roadbed should be 'flush' with the end of the module.  The track ends about 2.5" from the end so that a 5" section of Atlas track can be used to bridge the connection.

 

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Posted by Forte God DX on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 1:24 PM

thanks for trying

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Posted by Pathfinder on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 1:23 PM

Sorry, I am not an N scaler so can not offer much more than that.  Hopefully some of the good N's will be along to help out.

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Posted by Forte God DX on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 1:12 PM
thanks for welcoming me. also i have the book and it doesn't really say how far and I checked the site.
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Posted by Pathfinder on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 1:11 PM

Welcome to the forum.

There is lots of info on ballast out there.

As for NTrack, you may want to check the actual specs at http://www.ntrak.org/index.htm

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2 questions
Posted by Forte God DX on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 12:52 PM

My first one is in one of the issues there was an article about how to apply balist. Can anyone tell me what the mixture he used was?

The second one is I'm building my 1st module using NTrack and was wondering how far do you end the track/roadben from the end?

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