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Has Anyone...........
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 9:17 PM
Has anyone here Been featuered in MR and Who here handlays track?
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 9:35 PM
nope but i intend to be featured (cough cough)
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 19, 2004 7:07 PM
Cool I'm hopin i can get into MR some times[:)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 19, 2004 7:31 PM
I hand lay track
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Posted by TrainFreak409 on Saturday, June 19, 2004 7:39 PM
Someday I will be featured in Model Railroader. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not in the next fiver years, but it WILL happen. And, no I don't handlay track.

[8]TrainFreak409[8]

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Posted by fiatfan on Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:28 PM
I have hand laid track in the past. Being featured in MR is not one of my goals in life.

Tom

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:51 PM
I have Hand laid some track on a past layout, but I'm only planning it in one place on this layout so I can have a smaller code on a couple of sidings. The track has gotten more realistic with tie plates and scale spikes. I can't really do better with handlaid.
Enjoy
Paul
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 19, 2004 9:37 PM
I haven't done any of the thing you ask for, but I surely intend to be on MR... just you wait until my pike is finished (mwahahaha!)
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Posted by CBQ_Guy on Monday, June 21, 2004 12:03 AM
,,,No
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 21, 2004 9:46 AM
Maybe sime day I'll be featured in the magazine, I'm sure you guys would all like to see the face of one female modelers [:D], but there's no way I will ever hand lay tracks, there are much other things to do on a layout to get my attention.
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Posted by jslean on Monday, June 21, 2004 9:48 AM
My railroad hasn't been in Model Railroader but it has been in Craftsman and the Journal. I do handlay most of my track. The only exceptions were a few sidings that were hard to reach and a curved switch that I didn't feel like building at the time.
Why are you asking?

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Posted by Pruitt on Monday, June 21, 2004 10:52 AM
I've been published by MR. Some years ago I wrote an article titled "Beyond Railscope."

Some years ..... man, that was a long time ago! I'M GETTIN' OLD!!
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Posted by darth9x9 on Monday, June 21, 2004 3:27 PM
Sometimes you have to learn to crawl before you can run......and get yourself into other publications before you get into MR...... mark my words..... a hint of things to come. [8D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 21, 2004 3:38 PM
no and no

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Posted by trainfan1221 on Monday, June 21, 2004 6:21 PM
Only when they become really desperate. And no, I don't handlay track.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 11:20 PM
No and yes our club has some hand layed track on part of our layout
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 10, 2004 8:35 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jslean

My railroad hasn't been in Model Railroader but it has been in Craftsman and the Journal. I do handlay most of my track. The only exceptions were a few sidings that were hard to reach and a curved switch that I didn't feel like building at the time.
Why are you asking?

John Slean

I'm asking becuase I've wondered for awhile whos been in MR and I had to Handlay a short section on track on a trestle.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 10, 2004 1:55 PM
I have not been in MR... hopefully after I retire from the USAF and own a basement (with a nice house on top of course) and get my layout going, Ill be in MR.

I do handlay track, all of it. I used to use flextrack, but I found I can detail handlaid track much more than plastic (this is just MY observation, I have nothing against flextrack or those who use it). I had Tim from handlaidtrack.com make a tie laying jig for me, works great. I also have a #8 turnout template from him as well, another fine tool. I used many references to learn how to handlay track, and my first attempts were, well, lets just say it could pass for an abandoned line. But now that I got the hang of it, I dont see me ever going back to flex track. If you are an N scaler, check out some back issues of N Scale Magazine. For HO or N, backissues of Model Railroading have some great info as well. I also used Kalmbach's Trackwork and Lineside Details book (some great ideas in there for details).

Matt

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