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	<title>The Model Railroader</title>
	
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		<title>Model Trains – A Hobby Made For The Whole Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Model train building has been a hobby that has fascinated both adults and children alike since the invention of these wonderful machines. In today’s age of gaming consoles, highly stressed work environments and dysfunctioning families, building and enjoying a model train together can be a great way to guarantee some quality time for the whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Realistic Model Train Scenery – Mountains &amp; Rivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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There are so many different things you can do to improve the scenic effects on your model layout that there is no difficulty in finding subjects to choose from. No matter what part of the trackage you look at, something needs to be done. Let&#8217;s look at the building of a miniature mountain.
To build a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Signal Your Model Railroad Layout</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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The signal systems used on the real railroads have grown so elaborate and complicated that it is really impossible for the average miniature railroader to keep up with them. Some of the big metropolitan model-railroad clubs, and a few exhibition layouts built by the railroads themselves do actually reproduce these complex features, but the individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Using The Model Railroad System Software?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deepwoods Software just released a new version of the Model Railroad System (ver 2.1.9) a few days ago. If you&#8217;re using their software, this latest update fixes a couple of bugs, one fairly significant one with the Time Table code.
If you&#8217;re not using it and don&#8217;t mind getting into some fairly technical stuff, both on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Model Railroad Wiring In Three Easy Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s the stuff of Hollywood &#8211; a mess of tangled wires, sweat dripping from the hero&#8217;s brow as the clock counts down and finally a nervous clip of a wire and the clock stops.&#160; But enough of that, we&#8217;re talking about Model Railroads not bombs &#8211; even if some enthusiasts have threatened to blow their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toy Trains vs. Model Trains</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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For non-enthusiasts the concept that there is a difference between a &#8216;toy&#8217; train and a &#8216;model&#8217; train is a subtle one.&#160; Granted both hobbies involve small trains that may or may not be replicas of existing larger ones &#8211; but really that is where the comparison ends.&#160; Toy trains are typically marketed to young children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frogs Explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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Why did the frog cross the rail? Because it was there!&#160; In railroading and railroad modeling a &#8216;frog&#8217; refers to the part of the system where the curved rail from a diverging line crosses the line of the main rail.&#160; It is technically and more usually referred to as a &#8216;crossing&#8217; in fact, and got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Ideas For Prototype Layouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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Any good model railroad started from an idea for a layout and worked up from there.&#160; Let&#8217;s face it &#8211; when you are building a world from scratch to display and run a train through, you need to have an idea of what type of runs you want the trains to make before you get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Lichen On Your Model Railway Layout</title>
		<link>http://www.themodelrailroader.com/landscaping/using-lichen-on-your-model-railway-layout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Landscaping]]></category>
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You won&#8217;t be in this hobby for very long before you start hearing about Lichen, and how you can use it to make realistic trees, shrubs and undergrowth. It&#8217;s a real plant, a delicate, interlaced, mossy sort of plant that is really part algae and the other part fungus. You can find Lichen all over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modeling Roads and Ground for Your Model Railroad Layout</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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Some of the most interesting things you can depict with a great degree of realism on your model railroad layout is the way you can render roads, ground and rail crossings. Since most people use rail crossings as a point of reference, (it&#8217;s where most of us see trains close up for the first time) [...]]]></description>
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