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Sound decoder sound is too weak
Bought version four TCS WOW sound decoder, comes default full volume. Just too quite to satisfy me. Anyone else have this problem?
World of difference between it and my SoundTraxx
Railcar Truck Set Nomenclature
I have been tuning up my freight cars in accordance with the "Make it Run Like a Dream" series, and got some good information about wheels, trucks, suspension, etc. on the MRH rolling stock forum.
I also found this video clip that does a good job showing the real thing. Possibly overly long and overly simplified for many readers here but it's worth a skim.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMReh0VJ-2Q
Is my Yard workable? I've made some changes.
I'm starting on laying my yard and was wondering if it is the best for the space I have assigned to it.
MIDWEST PRODUCTS BASEWOOD STRIPS
Having hard time finding MIDWEST PRODUCTS BASEWOOD STRIPS came in blue package of 15 sticks 11" long. found some in Canada but shipping is $17.00. Any local USA and or Ebay suppliers only need 1 package of #8027 but will buy more to have on hand.
Carter
Bingham and Garfield Railroad, Ghost Rail.
Once declared “one of the most marvelous little roads in the World.” This was high mountain railroading nothing like it in the world.
Working Fence gate
A friend of mine has an exit to staging on his layout. We have been thinking of ways to block the line of sight.
The problem is that the way the track has to exit the layout, the light from the staging area, shines through onto the layout and distracts from the illusion he wants.
We have come up with an idea. We want to put a solid "gate" across the track on the staging side of the layout.
Can you locate the Engine or the Interurban Car?
California, would be my starting location "George Barris" year is around 1970...?
3 Paint Projects and Making A Wall Sign with a Color Printer
00:20 Projects Before
02:20 Billboard on a Wall
07:20 Projects After
Question about state bans of 4-wheel 'bobber' cabooses
I'm looking for information about where and when four-wheeled "bobber" cabooses were outlawed. From what I've read Ohio and Minnesota passed laws in 1913 and 1911 respectively that took effect in 1919, similar regulation took effect in New York in 1924, and I've found a source citing similar legislation in Montana being enacted in 1907 but with no effective date listed.
Looking for info on how to model an additional Electric Furnace, if it's worth the effort?
For a steel mill that existed in the early 1950s in addition to having the switching all of the spurs for the Blast Furnaces, Coke Ovens (and affiliated by-products), Open Hearth and existing Electric Furnaces, and the Rolling/Finishing Mills, I thought it would be interesting to also have under construction a new Electric Furnace IF it provided for additional switching of cars to bring in the materials to build it and take away whatever material needed to be removed.
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