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Lillian “Curly” Lawrence and the history of live-steam locomotives
Mar 27, 2006

Lillian “Curly” Lawrence and the history of live-steam locomotives

Lillian “Curly” Lawrence and the history of live-steam locomotives Lillian “Curly” Lawrence was a British model engineer who lived from…

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Fire up a small-scale live steam locomotive
Mar 27, 2006

Fire up a small-scale live steam locomotive

The No. 24 was the last locomotive supplied to the two-foot gauge Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad in Maine.…

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Designing a garden railway for live-steam locomotives
Mar 27, 2006

Designing a garden railway for live-steam locomotives

A Roundhouse “Fowler,” fitted with a coal-fired boiler by John Shawe, at work on the author’s garden railway near Toronto.…

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The importance of ballasting gauge-1 track
Mar 24, 2006

The importance of ballasting gauge-1 track

The importance of ballasting gauge-1 track: LGB track is heavy enough to float by itself in ballast, just like full-size…

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A brief history of garden railroading
Mar 23, 2006

A brief history of garden railroading

At the turn of the century even the smallest trains left little room for indoor model railroading Back before the…

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Attaching wire to the rail
Mar 23, 2006

Attaching wire to the rail

Marc Horovitz Marc Horovitz Marc Horovitz There are several ways of connecting a lead wire to the rail. Perhaps the…

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Scale and gauge questions and answers about garden railroads
Mar 23, 2006

Scale and gauge questions and answers about garden railroads

I see there are locomotives in 1:24 scale for gauge-3 track. What width is gauge-3 track? How many gauges are…

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