Locos - Rolling stock (general)
Ontario South Central Railway
Hello, my name is Brad Ketchen. I am a musician, music engineer, sound editor and composer living in the Greater Toronto area. I say the GTA as my Girlfriend and I are moving to a condo in Toronto. This creates a dilemma, as I figure out the future of my railroad, Ontario South Central Railway and accomodating it in our new living space. Luckily, my girlfriend understands the need for a room to relocate the OSCR as well as my current location of the railroad on the adjacent wall to my recording work station.
Improving the rolling of Spectrum passenger cars
I have a question on how to improve the rolling characteristic of my Spectrum heavy and light weight passenger cars. They are equipped with the stock trucks and wheels. I have body mounted the couplers on all cars.
Thanks
Andy Hauser
Antique Collectors' Item
FOR ANTIQUE MODEL RAILROADER COLLECTORS
Found this while browsing an auctioneers web site. I'm not interested but you may be. Many other model railroad auctions on the web site.
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/19870369_american-flyer-o-gauge-9915...
My favorite Steam Loco is an RSO Pacific 4-6-2
This is my favorite of all my steam locos. Why, you ask? Well, because it is the oldest in my fleet, the quietest when moving, works far better than all the rest of my steam locos put together, and the most realistic when rolling out of the station or yard on start-up with momentum switched on.
HW Passenger Car Wheel sets
I am working to improve the rolling characteristic of my HW sleepers built from Branchline Trains kits. I have rebuilt the first ones I did to insure they were square and did not bind the wheels. I have modified the bolsters and cut the center sills to allow for an adequate truck swing. I run these cars on the club layout which uses primarily PECO track and turnouts( code 83).
My next step is to replace the wheel sets that came with the kit. I am considering Reboxx (.088). Any advise on this? Any suggestions? Thanks for the ideas.
Alternative to lead weights in locos; regaining what's lost when fitting DCC decoders/speakers
Has anyone had to remove weight from a loco to allow fitting of a DCC sound decoder, speaker and/or KA capacitance device? I'm wondering if anyone has tried using tungsten as a weighting material in place of lead; tungsten is less dangerous environmentally (or so I've read) and can be up to about 1.8 times the density (weighing up to 1.8 times as much as an equivalent amount of lead). The Pinewood Derby guys sometimes use this stuff to weight their cars and it seems like something good for loco weights.
How do you clean loco wheels?
Now that I've managed my Labor Day goal of getting my track down (all 20 ft of it), I've discovered the wheels of my Bachman 44 tonner exude black gunk. After a just a couple of weeks on a shelf, it stalls randomly on shiny rails. It's particularly sensitive to track irregularities (nice of it to point those out), and starts up again with just a breath of a push, so it clearly has dead spots on the wheels.
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