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waltersrails
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Posted by waltersrails on Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:49 AM
cool
I like NS but CSX has the B&O.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:28 AM
Anyone modeling the IC line? Just curious to see some pictures. I'm not a proto type guy.
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Posted by icmr on Thursday, April 20, 2006 11:00 AM
Im not sure if they are exact but you can put them in.

And yes, IC rules.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:41 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by dingoix

I'll be using manual Atlas snap-switches, which are $8 a pop. My next layout will hopefully use Peco. Tell you what, tonight I'll add up how many I need. I'm curious myself. If I could stop buying engines I'd have more of my track, but I might get an IHC 4-6-2 within the next 2 months[swg]


This is proably a common question but I thought I would ask here too. Are Peco Switches similar to Atlas #6 Customline? Reason I ask. I have a plan done up in Atlas RTS and I just want to convert the Atlas #6's to Peco Switches.

IC Rules!
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:03 AM
Cool. I actually shouldn't be buying any more motive power, I should fix my Spectrum 2-8-0. But an IHC 4-6-2 Pacific is only $71. An IHC 2-8-0 is $65.
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Posted by icmr on Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:08 AM
Steam is fun. I have a IHC L&N 4-8-2 Mountain type.



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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 10:35 PM
Great. Hopefully I will get an IHC 4-6-2 within the next 2 months. I want to run steam!
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Posted by icmr on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:40 PM
Hey guys. How is everyone.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by icmr on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:24 PM
7000.

I have revised the Club Rules.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:26 AM
What did you number your IC SD60?
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icmr
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Posted by icmr on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:24 AM
Bump. Hello all.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by icmr on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:34 AM
Im going to use Peco on my layout, flextrack and turnouts. IC # 7000 is just fine, needs a few handrails but other than that its fine.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:16 PM
I'll be using manual Atlas snap-switches, which are $8 a pop. My next layout will hopefully use Peco. Tell you what, tonight I'll add up how many I need. I'm curious myself. If I could stop buying engines I'd have more of my track, but I might get an IHC 4-6-2 within the next 2 months[swg]
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Posted by waltersrails on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:10 PM
how is 7000 doing
I like NS but CSX has the B&O.
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Posted by waltersrails on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:00 PM
lol
I like NS but CSX has the B&O.
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Posted by icmr on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:48 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by dingoix

What's the biggest problem for me is turnouts. Flextrack isn't too expensive, but I'll need a lot of turnouts.



[#ditto]



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by waltersrails on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:26 AM
happy 1004 posts
I like NS but CSX has the B&O.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:20 AM
What's the biggest problem for me is turnouts. Flextrack isn't too expensive, but I'll need a lot of turnouts.

Hopefully I can get my layout raised up to 50" within the next few weeks. After that I can start adding on[swg]
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Posted by icmr on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:12 AM
Great news dingoix. Im going to have to get more roadbed and alot more track than I had thought.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 10:46 AM
Cool. I've got 15' of flextrack, 15' of cork, railjoiners, and 3 cans of Floquil caboose red on the way from hobbylinc. In a week I should be painting 1 of the GP30s[swg].
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Posted by icmr on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:48 AM
We have reached 1000 posts!!!!



Victor

Happy Railroading.[swg][swg]
Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by icmr on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:47 AM
While on our last club trip we saw IC #8701 with an IC caboose on display. It was a great sight but something was wrong with the engine, They had instaled metal rods on the hand rails so kids could safley walk on it. This made me mad. It took away from the appearence of the locomotive.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by icmr on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:33 AM
Has anyone seen any IC engines lately?



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by icmr on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:19 AM
I also worked on the layout/layout room sunday. I also painted my autorack primer and put a death star logo on it.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by icmr on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:16 AM
We also had a five train meet at Golden Gate saturday. One of the trains was a 30 to 35 car "K" Line stack with a single NS SD70M-2 on point.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by icmr on Monday, April 17, 2006 9:32 PM
I saw a few trains after school today. One of them had three UP engines on the point.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by waltersrails on Monday, April 17, 2006 12:13 PM
i agree
I like NS but CSX has the B&O.
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Posted by icmr on Monday, April 17, 2006 12:13 PM
Cya later.



Victor

Happy Railroading.[swg][swg]
Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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Posted by waltersrails on Monday, April 17, 2006 12:12 PM
yes we do
I like NS but CSX has the B&O.
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Posted by icmr on Monday, April 17, 2006 12:11 PM
Yes because we need to start the planning of the trip.



Victor

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Illinois Central Railroad. Operation Lifesaver. Look, Listen, Live. Proud owner and user of Digitrax DCC. Visit my forum at http://icmr.proboards100.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Dream. Plan. Build.Smile, Wink & GrinSmile, Wink & Grin
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