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Bachmann Gp40 accuracy

How accurate are the dimensions of the Bachmann sound value gp40s?
Thank you

Accurail WP ACF 3-bay Hopper

I bought an ACCURAIL ACF covered hopper that is a Western Pacific roadname. The CAPY shows 198000 and the LD LMT is 165,000. I thought the CAPY should not be greater than the LD LMT. Are there decals available to match the Accurail lettering to correct the LD LMT?

Con-Cor MP-15

I recently purchased a Con-Cor EMD MP-15 (DC) locomotive.  The locomotive ran pretty well right out of the box but was rather noisy.  The documentation said that it was lubed at the factory but greasing it with LaBelle grease made a big difference in the running characteristics.

Is there a good reference on the controversies around MTH and HO/NMRA?

So, in my experience, Mike's Train House HO products invoke a response very much like partisan politics. 

You either love them and buy the heck out of them, Or you want Mike strung up for ruining the hobby. There's no middle ground. 

I've heard enough bad things about DCS/DCC interoperability and bad faith between MTH and the broader community, that I simply won't buy, but at the Trainclub, we're convening a standards committee for locomotives, and we have at least one member who likes MTH.

Great videos found on YT

Just found two wonderful short videos on YT:

 

 

 

Really impressive!

 

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mth gp40 sound on dc

with the ho scale mth sound equipped gp40s can you run them on dc and have sound work on dc?

Cannon & Company parts compatibility

Cannon & Company parts compatibility

This is a shot in the dark question (hoping someone here has had experience) in reference to Cannon & Company diesel parts working with Atlas diesel shells.

Specifically are the Cannon radiator fans and dynamic brake fans a drop in fit or will I need to modify the shell of the Atlas GP38. I'm not impressed with the molding for the Atlas fans and would prefer the fine detail and etched screen of the Cannon part.

Thank you,

Shane

overall length of well cars?

Hi. I just registered  earlier today and have been perusing forums for a while. I think this is great and will probably be very helpful too as I am a beginner building my first layout.

My question is this; what are the overall lengths of a 40', 48' and 53' well car?

I have searched the web for answers on google more than once but surprisingly no luck!

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

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Whisker Kadee's

Any negative comments on the whisker Kadee couplers. ?

I'm sold on them, and my future plans are to put these into as much of my rolling stock as possible.

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P2K Alco S-1 Switcher DCC

Okay, so, I just got a blue box Life Like Proto 2000 Alco S-1 switcher... and I thought to myself "Hey... I have a Digitrax sound decoder, factory speaker, and some LED bulbs, I'm going to put DCC into this DCC ready engine!"

The problem, is I have NO CLUE where I'm going to fit it. It looks like there is zero space between the top of the frame, and the top of the shell!


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