Diesel locos
How To Disassemble An ATLAS HO ALCO S2?
I have an ATLAS Master Line Series HO scale ALCO S2 with ESU LocSound and I'm attempting to disassemble it for a repaint (currently in B&O livery), but I can't figure out how to get it apart! When I was a kid, getting the F7 shell off a frame was as simple as getting a finger nail between it and the chassis. Not so with the more modern models apparently.
The best and worst model of an EMD F-unit???
So, Jimfitch and I were discussing Value Trains and agreed to disagree on that topic. An intriguing aside to that is this: What is the best model F-unit, and also what do you consider the worst? My picks are the Highliners kits, my least favorite is also probably the most common, the Athearn Blue Box. Reasons, Highliners set the bar high and the ability to detail to a specific prototype. The Athearn because the early drive was only able to go at warp 5 until the rubberbands broke, and the shell is inaccurate especially the windshield. So lets have it!
DCC Sound System Question
Folks,
I have a question regarding the different types of DCC sound systems out there. I know there's Lok Sound, and Tsunami, and others, but I'm buried trying to make sense out of this.
Kato HO scale locomotive poll
Just got an email from Kato, and they are running a poll: Which of their out-of-stock models would you pick to produce in 2019:
1. HO GE AC4400CW (CP, BNSF)
2. HO EMD SD38-2 (EJ&E, DM&IR, C&NW)
3. HO EMD SD45 (ATSF, C&NW, DRGW, PRR)
4. HO EMD SD70MAC (Alaska, BNSF, TFM, CSX)
Difficult Athearn SW1500 NiB
I just received a NiB Athearn Ready to Roll SW1500 DC locomotive but DCC ready today.
I removed it from the box and tried a 9 volt battery to the wheels and only the headlamps came on.
I then placed the locomotive on the track and fired up my DC transformer/power pack.
The lights came on again but no movement from the locomotive at all but there was a very loud humming from the locomotive.
ProtoThrottle Firmware Update (v1.1)
Firmware v1.1 for the ProtoThrottle has been officially released:
https://github.com/IowaScaledEngineering/mrbw-cst/releases/tag/1.1
Full release notes can be found at the link above, but here are the highlights:
Ore Train, 100 cars and a few other random sightings at Carquinez MRR
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Whole layout paint scheme : modelling "Kodachrome"?
Dear MRHers,
Was musing to myself about the history of proto RR photography, and the early colour-photo era. The use of "Kodachrome" film brought a very definite colour reproduction and impression to many railfans, and by-extension to modellers.
Knowing as we do that Kodachrome had a distinct "look" (whether that was accurate when compared to a Mk1 eyeball of a human standing trackside is an acknowledged variable),
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