An N scale AC-12 in a far flatland: Italy
As this place seems "immune" from the Intermountain's AC plague (Ho model seems to suffer of never end discussions and some N scale too), well, mine run nice from the beginning!
One nigth of the last week, I took my Cab Forward from the black huge box and start to ... open the tender. This weekend we have a Fremo meeting, and I want to have the AC ready to surprise all coming kids with steam, whistle and bell sound!
I must say fitting a Micro Tsunami inside was not really a figth, I've just to discard the original metal weigth as his millimeter high give no way to close back the tender body! I've replace it with two lead pieces one in front & other
on back side.I hear some others have made a lead box for the speacker, but I choose the simplest method.
Using a brass sheet I cut an "U" shaped cooler for the decoder to dissipate heat. Then made from styrene a sealed box around the rectangular loudspeaker (this time I don't forget to solder two wires on it and make a
little hole to connect on the plug!). The decoder stay on top of the styrene box with a dual face tape.
Only remark I've to do is: don't care about numbers printed on the NMRA connector.... IM reverse the order of one row, so take in consideration the phisical position and you don't go wrong.
No time to test if is working, so, at Saturday mornimg, after finish to put toghether a 20 meter long modular layout.... we go! We have a Zephir panel and no time to play with CVs, so we run "as is": I must say "she" creeps starting at level 2 (after a carefull oil maintenance on all moving parts) and after few runs was able to mantain a 2 mph yard speed. here is a "PQ" (poor-quality) video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5a1zPXj63Q
Please, don't care about landscape... our Fremo modules are based on Nord Italy flatland!
After the Sunday session we have several 3-4 years kids around and the best show of the day was looking his faces following the "Yellow Train" along the rails and claiming "please, whistle again!"
Enjoy
Enzo Fortuna
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Looks and sounds good Enzo.
Most of the modules shown in the video were "grass lands" which would be prototypical for California's central valley between Bakersfield and Sacramento, actually even North of Sacramento to about 100 miles from the Oregon border. The only thing is it would be correct for winter and spring. Our grass lands turn "golden" (my wife from New York calls it "brown" and dead) in summer.
Nice Engine Enzo The only
Nice Engine Enzo The only thing you need to do is speed it up and go faster, My Great Granduncle Was an Engineer on AC-8-9-10-11 &12s and he would Brag about running down the San Joaquin Valley at 70 plus Miles and Hour hauling Sugar Beets from Bakersfield to San Diego.
Dan
Rio Grande Dan
Believe it or not
I wouldn't think the wheels and bearings on those old GS gondolas could take that speed for long.
Mark Pierce
was it PFE reefers
It could have been PFE reefers. They were many times assembled into solid-blocked expedited freight.
The beet gons were placarded for 45 mph max., and you learned really quickly to be well back from the right-of-way when the beet gons were going by, lest you get beaned by a stray beet that was bounced out.
Don
Rincon Pacific Rwy, 1960. HO scale std. gauge - interchange with SP.
DCC-NCE, CMRI, JMRI
Thanks for the positive
Thanks for the positive comments. friends! Have still to whether all my rolling stocks and steam power... and expertize on take better videos.
In fact we are analizing if some of these modules can be used also for a "just born" idea to start an US-N Italian Fremo group and made some Western based modules. I well know the Golden grass color of the hills and as soon I reach the scenery stage on my layout I plan to have at least one.
Unfortunately my SP line is running on flat land along the Bay, so no helpers. ..... I've to set a reservation for the next layout?
Enzo Fortuna
Modeling the friendly Espee in Italy
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