A one-time post to alert anyone interested that I've listed the first Allagash Railway locomotive on Ebay. As previously posted (with permission) I will be doing a couple of weathered freight cars per week, and the occasional loco.

Thanks for looking. Here is the link

https://www.ebay.com/itm/273726269565

Mike Confalone

Photo tutorial of improving the electrical pickup on the newer Genesis locomotives from Athearn.  Also works for P2K, Atlas, Kato and others with this system.

I have been doing this for years now and it really helps improve the performance.

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I’ve been impressed with the value of the Proto2000 (P2K) GP-7/9/18/20 series since they began coming out in the late 1990’s.  For between $40-70, you can get a great running diesel locomotive with just a little bit of elbow grease.  I recently looked on eBay and found over 40 GP9s for sale, and even more GP7s.  These are readily available at train shows as well.

I am looking for Atlas side handrails for the Atlas S1/S2/S3 or S4 to support a kitbashing project that I am working on (Western Maryland Slug 138-T).

I checked ebay, the Atlas spare parts website, and posted to  the groups.io site "hoswap".

Smokey Valley makes a set of hand stanchions but naturally Walthers is out of stock.

Any ideas on where else to look?   I am loath to buy another Atlas loco just to score the handrails.  I purchased a set of Alco handrail stanchions from Precision Scale but they are the wrong type.