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AnthonyDuarte wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:14 am

Clarification... I took an airplane from Chicago to Harrisburg.

Do you plan to give it back?

Will you be attending as a vendor?

Tentatively sold....

AnthonyDuarte wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:37 pm

Machining is machining. It’s all fun.

Mad props! This is liiiiiiit!

Hi all, I've decided it is time to part with my 1" Scale passenger car. As I understand it, this is the prototype for the Riding Railkits line. The reason for being so short is that the designers/builders wanted to run it on their property's railroad which had small radius curves, so they had to sho...

I had a Syren25 for my Maxitrak 0-4-0 electric.. But it could never "perform". Then the ONE night that I ran at nighttime (St Croix) I noticed that as I incremented the potentiometer for the throttle past ~35-40%, I was seeing a red glow coming from the circuit board. Come to find out, the error lig...

PM sent and Email sent.

When I worked for Rock Island Arsenal, I worked with VTLs... Pretty cool stuff. We machined parts for the M198/M119 Howitzers on these. The tooling was massive. We had to use the overhead cranes to load the tooling. Sometimes I wonder if I should've stayed. Then I wouldn't be where I am today withou...

If you anticipate making a sale on Chaski, you would likely have better luck by taking each piece of equipment out from it's storage space and getting quality photos of each item. A lot of the photos you have shown are stashed in the barn and difficult to evaluate if buyers want to shell out that ki...

thomaskremers wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 18, 2018 4:31 am

the FLLS requires a current , for 2019, boiler hydro test and locomotive safety inspection including working brakes

I dont believe this applies to 1" scale.

What happened to the LS forum?

Actually, you might be thinking of Carey Williams... He has quite a few HOD and Cagney locomotives. Both in 12" and 15" gauges.