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hi fidel, I see you got plenty advise on the resizing of the photo's, so I am sure you will find the best solution. For what it is worth, the one that I am using is simply MS Office 2010. Right click on the photo and choose the option to open with "MS Office", which then allows you to easily resize ...

Hi Fidel, not sure how you resize your pictures, but with my limited knowledge it will be hard to resize without losing detail when you zoom. I always resize to "web large". Suggest if someone needs full size pictures, they can e-mail you and you can send it seperately. Good job on the layout ...

Hi Fidel, your layout is progressing very well, and looks exciting! A lot of work to say the least. I am currently not doing anything as far as my N-layout is concerned, and is focusing on my new HO layout. Will post some pictures. Keep up the work. Regards Arno

Hi Fidel, congrats, it looks very good! No one who has not attempted this before will know what it is really about. I quickly gave up on the Blue 6E I attempted to convert. Do you have a layout that you run these on, or do you only build the models? Regards Stasiemeester

What a pity! Look on the website www.sa-transport.co.za. Search for photos under the E Class loco's. There is a photo of what you saw which was taken in 2004. It looks dreadfull. Wonder if one can contact them in some way.

Thanks very much John, thats very well explained.

Hi John, I saw those photo's, they are very nice and taken at the right time of the year, no doubt. I took some photo's on my recent visit, but I am not sure how to upload them and what size. Do I add it at the "upload attachment" section just below this message?

Hi Fanie, nice meeting you. Since the oNeTrack concept has no circular tracks (which I have seen) I use 100mm straight tracks where the sections join, but it won't apply to your layout. I have a very busy work schedule for the next two weeks, but will post some photo's soon.

Thanks John, will do so. I have a mojor interest in the Sishen Saldanha line and visited Saldanha about three weeks ago, and Sishen last week. Since it was a business trip I could not spend any length of time at either. The one farm I visited near Vredenburg, has a view of the Saldanha Iron Ore ...

Hi Fanie, nice to see such a neat N scale model. I am modeling in both HO and N scale. I have had a fairly large HO layout since 1987, but it was never displayed (built) I started on the layout about 3 years ago, in the basement of a rondawel. Since my time and space is very limited, progress is a ...