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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:54 PM
How could you make a motor small enough to fit in that!?

A even better question, how on earth would you make the tiny running gear, plus make that operate perfectly?!

The one advantage is you could model every mile of track of a medium sized railroad in that scale!!
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CBQ_Guy
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Posted by CBQ_Guy on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:22 PM
Try counting THOSE rivets...HA

Alright, already...I'm amazed. Just don't sneeze at one of his op sessions!
"Paul [Kossart] - The CB&Q Guy" [In Illinois] ~ Modeling the CB&Q and its fictional 'Illiniwek River-Subdivision-Branch Line' in the 1960's. ~
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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:53 PM
Ay Carumba! Sorry folks, I cant do anything small enough to risk swallowing if I inhale too fast....

   Have fun with your trains

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:25 PM
One more thing, anyone ever heard about this french guy who made trains in a scale of 1/1000?
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cwclark
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Posted by cwclark on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:01 PM
nice small train...just don't breath hard on it...it will send it flying into the next room...

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 11:08 AM
wow... they just keep getitng smaller....
how would you ever work on one of those?
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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:56 AM
that would make great bookshelf layouts
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CNJ831
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Posted by CNJ831 on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 8:36 AM
Interesting. But certainly not the ultimate in small gauges. As I recall, about 50 years ago MR ran a story on a layout done at about _one half_ of Mr. Sherwood's scale (something like 1:700 I think). It was in some way air operated and about suitcase-size.

CNJ831
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Posted by simon1966 on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:26 AM
How do you fit a sound decoder into this one?

Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 1:22 AM
Oy, Again with the small scales. There comes a point when small is to small to be practicle. With my big hands HO is a chore to work in some times. What N scale stuff I have handled is completely handled with pliers and tweesers after the shell comes off.

1-400 scale. iye yie yie yie yie.

Good luck to the people that can work with it.

James
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 20, 2004 12:52 AM
yeah it would be cool to have something like that but imagine trying to get parts you would have to scratchbuild everything!!!
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Posted by BNSFNUT on Monday, July 19, 2004 9:33 PM
Good grief [:O] I have enough trouble seeing HO scale.
There isn't a pair of glass in the world that would help these old eyes see to work on that scale. It is neat though.

There is no such thing as a bad day of railfanning. So many trains, so little time.

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AlcoRS11Nut
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Posted by AlcoRS11Nut on Monday, July 19, 2004 7:50 PM
Holy Crap, that's small!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the smell of ALCo smoke in the Morning. "Long live the 251!!!" I miss the GBW and my favorite uncle is Uncle Pete. Uncle Pete eats Space Noodles for breakfast.
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Posted by dave9999 on Monday, July 19, 2004 5:09 PM
That is pretty amazing. And to think I sometimes get frustrated when working with HO. He must have
a very steady hand. And patience to spare. Dave
GO GATORS !! Old layout http://photobucket.com/albums/v491/davegator/ New layout http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v491/davegator/New%20Layout%20Building/
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Amaze yourselves!
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 19, 2004 4:52 PM
*sideshow barker voice* Step riight up! Witness one of the greatest feats in model railroading...okay maybe not, but this is really amazing:
http://www.fielder-rowe.freeserve.co.uk/aasherwood.html
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