Ok so I just put a tsunami v1 in a rsd 12 the other day and an nce dasr in another rsd 12.  I am trying to speed match the 2 but the tsunami even though having a 0 start voltage, a max voltage of 10 and a mid range of 1 is still light years faster than my dasr equipped one.  Nothing changes how it crawls(it does not really crawl at all starts off at like 5 mph).  How do I change this so it crawls slower and can get it to match with the rest of my fleet of locos.  Or is this doomed to be the one oddball.  The tsunami 2 i have matched everything nce dasr equipped pret

I've just bought "Make it run like a Dream: Rolling Stock".  It's an excellent book and a "must have".  I model Danish railways in the late 1960s (the very end of a very long steam-to-diesel transition period for the state railways), so not everything is relevant to my situation but there is more than sufficient meat to make the book a very good purchase.

The last chapter in the book on car weight is thought provoking, and as Joe Fugate suggested, likely to cause some controversy.  So, let me add a footnote to the controversy.

I have just come back to N Scale after many years away. My first purchase was of a Loco and some freight cars. The majority of the freight cars turned out to be Model Power. Their knuckle coupler doesn't seem to couple easily to Atlas locos. Hence, I went and bought a stock of MicroTrains trucks - Bettendorf 1003-10.

Now I get to take the trucks off one of the cars, I find that there is nothing in the MicroTrains pack that will fit the hole in the bolster. Can anyone advise the best way forward?

Doing a nice looking weathering with Pan Pastels is quite easy - but after fixating it with a coat of acrylic matte varnish it's nearly invisible.

What is happening here? And how to avoid it?