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Peoria, AZ

I bought a Shay up in the Northwest, when they first came out, (#81198 Ely Thomas, 36 ton, 2 truck)up in the Northwest, because I have always had a love of Shays. Retired and am finally getting into putting an outdoor layout in the yard and have begun R/C'ing and weathering the Shay, so I came across your site while looking for info. Great info! I thought you might be able to help me find an owners manual for my Shay. Thru 3 moves, it somehow got lost. I have written to Bachmann, but got no reply. Any ideas?

via MLS

England

Hi george, just a quick note to check & change Barry's e-mail & post address.
I will put a link to your site onto mine soon, the server is being changed at the moment.

Yours Peter Bunce

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Ex. St. Albans, England, now Puebla, Mexico

Excellent site George, especially the info on web page preparation... will be a huge help when I get round to doing mine (soon?). And the trains? Ahhh, left all that behind in the UK, but have just lugged two suitcases of 0 Gauge out to Puebla!!!
Thanks for your hard work!

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Calgary, Canada

This is a most helpful site for me, as I am considering getting into the hobby to entertain my first grandson. I can not believe it has not had more hits than indicated. I will certainly pass it along to some friends who are just getting into G Scale as well. Keep up the great work!!!

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From Madrid, Spain.

You have a very nice web page with interested links. Thank you very much.

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Bouse, Arizona

Thanks for a great site!
I am a true newbe and have not even purchased my first piece of rolling stock or track. I have big plans and hope to get started soon after the 1st of Jan. 05. My father had a large O gage setup years ago. Now it seems I have got the bug. I am planning some 268 feet of road bed initially most of which will be suspended or tussled, ranging in height from 36 inches to 8 feet. My initial engine will be the Astro Craft EMD, SD-45 in the Southern Pacific. I plan on using stainless track. The suspension road bed and tussle system will be fabricated by myself as I used to do a lot of ornamental and security iron. So I have the time (retired), skill and equipment to do the steel work.
Agin thanks for the site!
Ted

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Chardon Ohio

I currently run ho scale trains and have always wanted to run G scale. I love your site, my ho layout is from the era! I'm cosidering selling it all to start a G scale set. Thanks for getting me excited to do just that!

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Bethlehem,Penna - the Christmas City

The tips BB for Large gauge trains is really supper. Since I do not buy new stuff but used stuff these tips have helped me use the old Aristo controls. And the tips on the Doodlebug and switches really helped a lot. keep up the grest tips. and Thank yo.!!!

RJS.

luck

Scranton, PA

Great site. Especially like the scanned books. a8ee7730e97c6@yahoo.com

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Barnegat, New Jersey

Fantastic website - I just forwarded you an email to get info on g scale train tressel construction

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Penn.

I feel you have built a very imformative site. keep up the good work.

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Chino Valley AZ

This is a vast wealth of information and especially useful to "newbies" in big trains. Having modeled smaller scales these big boys were intimidating but you go a LONG ways toward helping. Thank You

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New River AZ Just outside of Phoenix

Thanks for all the details on Aristo SD-45
I have been haveing trouble with one of the PC boards. I now have the information to fix it thanks to you.

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Wisconsin (formerly Upper Michigan)

George, Thanks much for all the info you share! You have made my modeling so much easier and enjoyable!! The best to you and your family, God Bless!

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Covington Kentucky USA

We are going to the UK in a few weeks. Art is a WWII Vet and was billeted near Liverpool in 1944 and went over to Normandy on 6/28/44 with the 86th Chemical Mortar Batallion and on to the Battle of the Bulge.

I was just looking over English facts when I accessed your items. It is awesome. I cannot wait to tell Art what other people think about the English food. I know he will say 'that hasn't changed'. We will survive.

Thank you for the info on this wonderful site. I will pass it around.

Please take a look at our web site when you get a chance.

Thank You,

Rose Pranger

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Dumont New Jersey

A great site. Very usefull information. Thank you

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south wales

are you sure you went to the right south wales ?sure doesnt sound like the place i live in when you visit again let me know and i will show you the real deal none of the fake touristy stuff!!

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Washington DC

Your turnout info and tips really helped me understand some basics. Thank you.

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Isle of Man

Good website, very interesting. Enjoyed your perspective on England's railways. Should have come to the Isle of Man - we have 3 diverse lines. I'm sure our cooking isn't as bad as all that - after all, the USA gave the world McDonalds.....

bachmann links

south wales uk

site very helpful, just starting in large scale garden rail. thanks dave

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Georgia

Enjoyed your shots of the Sugar Cane Train. Do you have any other pix of it especially there shops?

http://onename.co.kr

Great site!! This is really going to help me with my fishing. I hope that one day. Carp will be seen as an native, just like the trout. Keep up the good work.

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http://gowayo.co.kr
http://cardcool.co.kr
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North Hills, Ca.

George, you are an amazing person, my hat is off to you! Your G scale information site is the "Go To" place for information on the subject and then you go way beyond information. Thank you for all your wondful dedication and effort on this topic.
Tom Burger

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Michigan

Very informative site. Currently ready to get track out (O ga 3 rail) for my starter outdoor layout, its fence supported! Two short (18") truss bridges. Will use HO PP for starters and Can motored DC motive power. Wish George had an index of what of his hints were suitable for "O"...

Friend

Huntington WV USA

Keep up the Good work George

Browsing the web for technical information on DCC

Indiana

Yes I just puchased the new aristocraft Pacfic and trying to install a Decoder (Digtrax DG583S)
I get an error message showing I have a short. I wired in only the Left & Right pick up & the Left & Right Motor. (Wired into The J1 Dcc/Rcc Main Pins.

Have you or contacts run into the same problem.
note contacted Digtrax & Aristocrat. Got the normal run around. It must be the other guys problem.
By the way your web site has many great articals
Thanks for putting it together

Goolge search

South Africa

In your British travel report you said "The Underground could use some trackwork improvement as the cars lurch and sway quite a lot." Actually, the track-work is very good, it's just that the older parts of the the Underground, which were constructed in the late 19th century, actually have grades and curves like a roller-coaster! You can see this if you stand at the back-end of a car and look in the direction of travel! Don't do this if you suffer from motion-sickness.

Cheers
Freddie

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Palm Springs, CA

Nice website.

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Kelowna BC canada

wonderful stuff

Switzerland

Totally radical

Searching for large scale ride-on trains

I live in Grants Pass, OR (1 hour North of the California border)

Please Help Me! I am looking to build a ride-on live steam setup on my property for my son and I to enjoy. My father and grandfather both worked on the lines and are both gone now and I would like my son to experience the great history of our family and the railroads. I own a small fab and machine shop and so can build anything but I would like to start with a kit for the locomotive, passenger cars and track just to get my feet wet. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly apreciated! God Bless to all.

Gary Brogan sent me here

Pismo Beach, CA

Yes. I found a few typos as I was browsing through your material. I can't help it, I was a typesetter for many years. How would you like me to show you where they are?

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Findlay, Ohio

Just getting started in g scale model railroading.

aristocraft

Windsor,Massachusetts USA

Dear Sir, I'm trying to restore the SD40-2 that I foolishly bought on E-Bay. I would like to bring it back to the original condition. I asked USA trains but they were not very helpful.Do you have a wiring diagram I could use to help with this project. I am very new at this game .Any help would be great. Your web page is very helpful to us newbees.

Thank you for your time,
Bob VanDeusen

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pennsylvania

On your tips on couplers for aristo craft streamliners is the spacing cut more or less for s-curves I'm reading one but seeing the other? I am really glad to have found this site and have found pleanty of useful info thank you for your time and effort.

trainweb

cincinnati

About 4 years ago you wrote an article called "Snall DC Motor Tips". In that you made reference to a MicroMo,Inc. tutorial that you called "Small Motor Application Notes". I have tried to find the topic at M/M and can't seem to find it. Can you help me? Thank You.

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Utah

Thank you for posting and maintaining the "Military Railways" book online. I am making a display model, and having this information posted is a valuable resource, and saved me from buying such a book. This is the sort of thing the internet is fantastic for.

Thanks again,

Pedro

Hey George! It's me!

Belair, Sth Oz

George,
I note you haven't updated your website for over 7 months, and haven't been in the LSC chatroom for at least that long. Your friends are getting worried. Is everything OK?
Phil

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Bachman Trains Site

North Carolina

Really Great, I'm starting my garden railroad this summer. You have given me alot to think about. You have a great garden railroad.

From Aristo Craft

Windsor Ontario Canada

Thanks for the insight George!

Hohenau , Itapua , PARAGUAY

Paraguay photos
I just visited your excelant homepage . Hello from south america

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Gig Harbor, WA

Great technical information!

Recommended by Rod Dangerfield of Outline Locos, Milton Keynes, UK

Devon, England, UK

My SR&RL Sampford Railroad & Richmond Logging Company is a very new 500 foot long mainline, folded double dogbone 1:20.3 garden railroad, 1890-1920 backwoods American Logging railroad with radio operated, battery powered locos. Hi All!!

aristocraft links

Indialantic, FL

Great site for information! Thanks for the tremendous effort!

Barrys Big Trains

Omaha, NE

Great job on your website George! Very helpful and informative. Really liked the way you explained things, especially on the tech pages...explaining drawbacks...remedies...how tos...what the new electronics do...all in plain English that we can understand.
Thanks again and keep up the great work.
Jack

Internet search using your name.

West central Illinois

You have a wonderful site but I don't understand the technical stuff.
Read your book about the Aristo Craft train engineer about 3 times but I don't understand it either.
TATE has been of some help but I have a long way to go.

'cos we're both old-timers!

Adelaide, Sth Oz

George,
Haven't seen you online for ever. You not allowed to come out and play anymore? We're planning on another chatroom reunion of us old original coots on LSC this month. I'll send you the info when we've set a date.
Best regards,
Phil

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Miami,Florida

Very nice and useful website. Please visit my website!!! :)

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Tewksbury,Mass

just starting out hopefully some of your experience
will save me grief!! Thanks for the tips!! Will visit
again I'm sure. Bill

Friend mentioned it

Tucson Az

Yes - you used power take offs for the Thomas the Tank train.

I put metal LGB spoke wheels on the carriages and put power pick offs on each axle, put in lights and hooked all of the cars together on a common power bus using LGB connectors. It works fine. Real tie counting slow speeds. I am doing this to all of my other trains. Works good on normally oxidized track out doors also.

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Florida

I am looking for affiliates for my web site and just stumbled onto this site. I would appreciate you looking as my site and see if you would be interested in featuring it. In return I would post a link to your site. Thanks
Lee

Glendale AZ

Thank you Thank You !!
I have been able to add many extras to my trains using your directions.
I used your lighting from track power and adding LGB smoke unit instructions. They worked perfectly.

searching google.com for G Scale RRs

Austria Europe

Congratulations on your homepage! I'm thinking about starting my own garden Railroad on a fix track (I have been assembling the tracks in different layouts for just one or two weeks for years.) Your site offers lots of good information! Thank you!
I would like to see a higher resolution image of your layout as I'm espacially interested in layouts and their possibilities - I'm more into variing trains rather than just watching...
I'll certainly check your site more often for infrormation as I continue planning my layout! Greetings from Austria, Robert

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Peoria, AZ

So far, you have provided the most info regarding questions I have as I put in my own garden railroad in the backyard. I have most of my contours, infrastructure, etc. put in, but am at the point of laying out wiring. Mine will be small to begin with. For awhile, it will be there for visitor interest and yard landscaping improvement. I am not really planning on intricate operations, but am focusing on the scenery & structures. I have gotten a lot of good info from your website and appreciate the help. Thanks!

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Oceano, C A just south of Pismo Beach

This is the very first large scale site that I've entered in my "favorites". Thank you. I've been interested for about 5 years; subscribe to Garden Railways; used to belong to the BAGRS until moving South; and have just begun the ground work for my next line. Your site (I haven't gotten to all the pages) so far is OUTSTANDIING and I thank you for your efforts. A few of my questions already answered!!!! Thanks again.......I'll be back. Russ

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Mexico

Wow! This site is full of great information and pictures of a lovely work. Thank you and congratulations!

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Hattiesburg, Ms

do you know any thing about the Munton or Melrose coupler invented by James Munton in the 1880s or 1890s.

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Milton Pa

great information