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Making your own insulated railjoiners?
Does anyone know what I could use to insulate railjoiners? I can't purchase anythig so a DIY method would work.
Who's making this building?
Hi all,
I recently saw this building on a modular layout (HO scale) at the US RR Convention in Rodgau, Germany. I snapped a quick photo but I didn't have a chance to track down the person who built this module and ask: who makes this building?
I haven't been able to find it online (walthers, etc). It would be perfect for an empty lot on my layout.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Guido
Backdrop colour
Hi everybody, I'm building an industrial switching layout and have been putting some taught into backdrop colours. Instead of trying to replicate sky and background buildings using photos etc, I have been thinking about using black colour. One advantage to this is that it emphasizes the structures and groundwork. I have included some photos to show how it looks. Any thoughts and comments would be greatly appreciated.
Supplemental battery power?
Before starting to lay track on my new layout I'd like to explore the possibilities of supplemental battery power so I could only wire up the connecting tracks and leave the turnouts dead. This would greatly simplify the wiring and eliminate the need for tortoise or blue point controllers to power the frogs. It seems like a small battery could power the locos over the dead rails as long as they could recharge on the bulk of the track when running? The Stanton S-cab sounds like about what I want but I don't know anyone who has one.
Grade Testing Equipment
There was much conversation on the forum here about the engine going up a 9% grade. Many ideas were given on how to improve traction and so forth. This morning I did some testing on a track test bed I had built last year to test the pulling power of model engines. I never finished it totally.
The new Bachmann S-4
Got the new Bachmann Milwaukee Road S-4 in the mail Monday. Sounds nice. Although the horn volume is quite low. I have the master volume set to 255 and the horn volume set to 255 but its still low. The bell and the prime mover sound just fine though.
Florida Highland Fleet as of November 2015
Hi all
just like to share a quick video of my growing fleet for the Florida Highland Railroad
The FHRR is my freelance addition to the Pinsly railroad operations in Florida. The idea behind it is that the FHRR links all five Pinsly shortline from Newberry in the north with Lake Wales in the south via old abandoned lines. Their HQ are based in Highland City FL.
A Christmas n-scale layout...
Well, I want to start a small layout for Christmas in n-scale. My son and his wife gave me a pair of micro trains PRR heavyweight passenger cars, so I thought I would do a Pennsy layout. (they both went to school at Penn State, too, and the layout would essentially be a loosely translated Bellefonte, PA)
Slowly, s l o w l y I'm making progress!
You know, I'd be further along on my railroad if I didn't have to go and visit Michael Rose and eat all that good food! (grin). Well, I can't really blame him - I'm just SLOW and spend a great deal of time detailing as I go along. So I am getting close to getting the landform completed for the cabin and in the picture below I've detailed the rocks and added a bunch of greenery. I'm hoping that I can finish this (just this scene!) before the end of the year.
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