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Good Morning All: At my age ya'll are making me squemish with all this talk about getting the prostrate test done. The last one that I had done was by a woman and I've never heard that glove SNAP so loud, She had to have done it for the antipacition it stirs up. LETS MOVE ON TO A MORE PLEASENT SUBJECT because we all agree that it sould be done once a year. Fergie: What reverse lever?? If it's the detail part on the engineer side of the loco just under the running board, use a Cal-scale replacement - it looks alot better. I wonder why they called them running boards. When I was young (1,000 years ago) I tried to run down one of them and hit something with my sholder and fell off. Being a young squirt, I wasn't going to tell Dad as that would get me a wippin' for playing on the loco, I just limped around and told him I stepped in a hole when I was running. For the un-knowing, my Dad was a maintence super for a small RR in GA. It was the Albany and Northern, Ga Northen and half-himmers. ***: Forget about the snap track. Flex goes where you want it to go, not where it wants to go. Layout out the centerline of the track with a straight edge and compass (buy some drammel points at a school supply house). Lay the cork roadbed - be sure and sand it after the glue sets as it may not be level.. Buy some "Ribbonrail" gages at your LHS. Use these when laying out curves as they make the curves very smoooooth. I have a 3', 4', 5', and 6' metal "yard" sticks and my straight track is straight. Be sure and solder your track joints in the curves before laying the track as they will kink if you don't. I use Walthers cd 83 turnouts and Atlas cd 83 flex. The ties are a little bit different in thickness but I haven't had any trouble. One guy (he'll tell you he's God) on the forun told me that I would have to shim up the turnouts or I'd have derailment problems, 23 switches and 200+ feet of track had already been laid with no problems. He couldn't understant why. As many of you know I don't count rivits but my trackwork is good. Well I'm going to go upstairs and test some track. I finally got the decoder in for an Athearn SD75M or whatever and I'm going to try and get it sounded today. Ya'll have a blessed day and remember SANTA FE ALL THE WAY Bob
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