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Posted: Mon Oct 9th, 2017 05:10 am

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Daniel Asselin
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It is a Brass 040 Sadel Thank engine the maker is UNK. The scale is HOn3

Posted: Mon Oct 9th, 2017 05:25 am

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Daniel, it would be very hard for me to give you an answer on this. Can you supply a photo? The only saddle tank HOn3 loco that I am familiar with is the old Kemtron "Teakettle" and it was a kit. However, are you quite sure that it will not operate on code 55 rail? Even the old Kemtron loco could operate on the track. If all else fails, how about soldering the rail to printed circuit board ties (explained elsewhere in Freerails) or perhaps gluing the rail to wood ties with contact cement, epoxy, or maybe some ACC (super glue). If you will be hand laying this rail, Micro Engineering makes some super small spikes-"Micro spikes" which are very tiny indeed. I believe that Micro Engineering still makes HOn3 flex track in code 55, turnouts...I just don't know. Good luck, a photo would really be helpful.

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Posted: Tue Oct 10th, 2017 03:46 am

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I'm having some issues loading pictures from photobucket.

Posted: Tue Oct 10th, 2017 03:58 am

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Hi Daniel

Yeah ... You and another few million of their customers !

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Posted: Tue Oct 10th, 2017 09:21 am

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Daniel, just send your photos here to the Freerails gallery. It is far better than any "photo host" BS and easier to post in a thread. Or just send the photos to the gallery and we can see them there.

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Posted: Tue Oct 10th, 2017 03:18 pm

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Hi Daniel

As Woodie

said, the Freerails 'Members Gallery' is the way to go with Posting pix.

There's lots of info on how to use it, in the 'Photo Posting' Forum.

Very easy, once you've checked out the instructions.

The other method is to use the 'Attachment' Button, at the bottom of the Main Reply Window.

In both cases photos should be under 0.5 Megabytes in file size.

Most 'web-sized' 800x--- or 1024x--- pixel photos are less than this.

All the best.

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Posted: Mon Oct 16th, 2017 02:57 am

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I followed your advice and tried glueing the rails in place.... This turned out better than expected, it turned out grate has a matter of fact. I also ordered some micro spikes.

On another subject I will be away for a few weeks. My wife and I are going to Cuba for a month. I will be leaving tomorrow morning on the 7AM flight. So, if you get no response from me you know why.

I would also like to mention what a very nice bunch of people you are.

Dan

Last edited on Mon Oct 16th, 2017 02:58 am by Daniel Asselin

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