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Catenary construction tips?

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 20, 2005 9:12 PM
hi,

some example of home-maide catenary in big scale:

http://club.ccac.free.fr/Images/Galerie/Depot/DSCF0093.JPG

http://club.ccac.free.fr/Images/Galerie/Depot/DSCN2503.jpg

http://club.ccac.free.fr/Images/Galerie/trainsenlignes/photo0002.jpg

http://club.ccac.free.fr/Images/Galerie/trainsenlignes/DSCN2449.jpg

regards,

nick
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Friday, May 20, 2005 9:53 PM
These videos (from an earlier post by digidanny) show a lot of catenary work. They look like O-guage to me, but they are well worth looking at for trolley fans (or MR video fans) of any guage.

www.modeltram.amsterdamsetram.nl

The site's native language is not English, but if you click on the Homepage button, and then go down to the bottom of the red box on that page, and then go to the blue box that pops up, you can select each of 3 really nice videos. They are each about 2 minutes long, and fairly high quality, so if you're on dial-up you'll have time to meet the girl of your dreams and raise a family while waiting, but for the rest of us, they are quite a treat.

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Posted by NHRRJET on Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:41 PM
Bilby2k:
MR (8/04) did a cover feature story on my HO NYNH&H layout with correct NH style catenary. Review the article. Should you have any questions, please contact me at ep5379@aol.com. I'll do what I can to answer any questions.
Richard L. Abramson
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Posted by jrbarney on Friday, May 27, 2005 9:58 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by trolleyboy

. . . . One other suggestion that I have is alpine scale models they manufacture overhead wire and polls this is the old sudyam line. www.customtraxx.com lists them. I beleave the Bowser site has a link for alpine as well. . . . Rob

Alpine Division Scale Models has their own Web site:
http://www.alpinemodels.com
so you can go there directly.
Bob
NMRA Life 0543
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