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O scale Christmas village choices

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 12:00:15 +0000

If you’re looking for an O scale Christmas village or O scale holiday village to go with a Lionel train or similar train of another make, you’re in luck. You have two good choices. The biggest names in Christmas villages

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An HO scale Christmas village

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 11:00:41 +0000

Occasionally someone asks me to recommend an HO scale holiday village or HO scale Christmas village. The big-name villages are too big for HO scale trains, generally speaking, so I understand. There’s no big-name HO scale holiday village but there is

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What scale are Matchbox cars?

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:00:01 +0000

What scale are Matchbox cars, you ask? Unfortunately it varies a bit. Nominally they’re around 1:64 scale. But scale isn’t Matchbox’s objective. Fitting in the package is. That means the size of Matchbox cars is between 2.5 and 3 inches,

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Creative sourcing for O and S scale train layout figures

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 11:00:26 +0000

Hobby shops frequently carry a decent selection of figures for O and S gauge layouts, but if you look at the magazines long enough, you start to see almost all of them have the same figures–and they’re probably the same figures

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Tips for using Dept. 56 and Lemax-type buildings with Lionel trains

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 11:00:17 +0000

A frequent question I see regards the proper scale of snow village-type buildings, like Department 56 and Lemax, and whether they’re suitable for use with Lionel electric trains. The answer is that their scale varies, but the buildings work very effectively with

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Setting up the tree and the train

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:35:42 +0000

Although some of the people in our neighborhood had their Christmas stuff up well in advance of Thanksgiving, my wife and I did the traditional thing, setting the tree up the day after Thanksgiving.

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Cheap source of parts for projects, electronic or otherwise

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:54:22 +0000

I went to Dollar Tree today and picked up some of the street lights for their Cobblestone Corners holiday village series. It's a cheap way to get some parts for projects, electronic or otherwise.

Where else will you get a battery pack for two AAs--complete with two-position sliding on/off switch--some bits of wire (22 gauge?), and up to three grain of wheat bulbs for a buck?

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