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    How do I reply to a thread using IE11?

    I purchased a new computer a while back and recently updated Windows 8.0 to Windows 8.1. I like to use IE 11.0 for my browser. Recently I tried to post a picture or two to the screenie USA thread, but IE 11 would not let me do it, it just kept giving me the wait for something to happen sign...
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    When did shipping grain in covered hoppers begin?

    I am working on a transition era route, late 40's early 50's, and have a grain facility. Were they still shipping grain in boxcars at that time, or had they begun to use covered hoppers? There are some nice 40ft covered hoppers in Trainz but I don't know if they are of the correct period.
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    Prototype Yard Design

    I tried asking this question in another forum, but did not get too much in the way of useful information, so I thought I would try in here. I am working on a contemporary UP yard complex (formerly DRGW) in Grand Junction, CO. It is a fairly sizable complex with a flat classification yard...
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    Macbook Air WiFi connection issues

    Not a Trainz issue, but maybe someone can offer some advice. I bought my wife a Macbook Air last Christmas, and recently it stopped connecting to our WiFi. It just scans and scans and finds no WiFi, even though our WiFi is working fine and connecting other devices such as an iPad. I talked to...
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    HO Scale scale?

    One of the minor annoyances of using plans published by Model Railroader magazine is that for the convenience of the HO scale modelers they publish the plans at HO scale, which is I believe, for historical reasons, 1/87 of full size. However most architectural plans (at least here in the USA)...
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    MARZ Base Warning Message

    When I logged into arraial's Marz Base thread a few minutes ago, this is what I got from my antivirus system. No other threads in the forum that I visit are doing it.
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    Blue Comet

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    OK, so I ordered the Blue Comet

    Now how do I download it? Am I supposed to get an email or something? Where do I download it? The shopping experience at N3V is not a particularly good one.
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    Refueling The Old Fashioned Way

    I came across this photo of the Super Chief being refueled in Albuquerque and thought it was interesting.
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    Advertising Trees?

    Internet .com advertising on tree branches? What on earth are you up to here, Jan? I guess it is one way of "going green". ;)
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    Okeechobee City

    Cold weather's coming. Time to head south to the sunshine state.
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    BNSF Corp has been sold to Warren Buffet

    Just saw this on Squawk Box a few minutes ago. He is buying the rest of the railroad that he does not already own for $100 per share in cash and Berkshire Hatheway class B stock, which he is splitting 50 to 1. The stock prices of all the other Class 1 railroads are jumping in premarket trading...
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    UP under wire?

    It is 2015, and a pair of motors haul a Union Pacific freight up the Harriman cut-off on Sherman Hill. Inspired by the Photoshopped cover of this month's Trains magazine showing some future UP motors hauling a coal train. Did you know that the Union Pacific had a section of test catenary on...
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    Warm Reboot Problem

    A few months back I bought myself a new computer, and have been enjoying the new and improved performance. I have run into an odd problem however involving my raided hard drives and windows xp. If I try to do a "warm" reboot such as those requested by some software updates, the system will not...
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    Industry Track for Sugar Cane?

    Is there a track out there that produces and/or consumes sugar cane?
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