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Power Supply Cradle from PDC.ca - for Railpro and more!
I kinda' hate power bricks. They are always a pain to keep tidy and to mount.
Depending how you truss them up, they are difficult to remove later too.
Faced with mounting yet another power brick, this time for my RailPro system, I came up with a tidy little mount that allows you to easily slide the brick in and out with no other tools.
Available now from PDC at $14.50 including shipping in the US or Canada...
Colin's Cabin - Harriman Plans
This is a HO scale scratch build using plans from Pat Harriman's book "Early Wood Frame and Stone Structures". This is a build of the second plan in the book, Colin's Cabin.
Intermountain HO SD40-2 upgrades
Like a lot of modelers, I've long been in search of the "perfect" SD40-2 - in my case, to model UP units using trackage rights to operate over my prototype. Athearn's models have grown consistently better in detail and paint over the years, but in my experience, have never run as well as Atlas and Kato diesels. Kato SD40-2s, on the other hand, can run great, but earlier versions require the factory pick-up system to be re-worked, and all fall short of the level and quality of detail of most current offerings.
Increasing car weights
Joe, I understand that after operating on Mike C's Allagash you are experimenting with heavily weighted cars. You said you have made some CV changes, I think in regard to momentum. Would you mind sharing the knowledge gained? I am running fairly new Athearn Genesis SDP45's with Tsunami decoders and having great results with momentum settings of CV3=60, CV4=30. I am going to try your 1 ounce per inch weights on a set of cars and see what a difference it makes. Regards, see you in August at Portland! John Colley, Sonoma, CA
Small Miners Shack - Harriman Plans
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This is a HO scale scratch build using plans from Pat Harriman's book "Early Wood Frame and Stone Structures". This is a build of the first plan in the book, the Small Miners Shack. |
Highland Industry Park Florida
Hi all
I'd like to introduce you to my Highland Industry Park
hers a link to the latest YouTube update
and its Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Florida-Highland-Railroad/641156309317261
Is it wrong to prefer things unweathered?
I see photos of beautifully detailed and weathered locomotives and cars in all scales. I think they are works of art. But when it comes to my own rolling stock and engines I prefer them pristine. I don't know why. I almost took to an Atlas C424 to weather it and make it look used. I couldn't do it. The gorgeous CPRail action red, the crisp whiteness of the pac-man, the dark black of the trucks and underframe....
locomotive/accessory decoder and CV29
I am building a motorized overhead crane that I would like to put on my accessory bus. I have two motors that I need to control, and would like to use locomotive decoders for them.
If I understand the NMRA spec correctly, if bit 7 is set to 0 in CV29 then it is an accessory decoder. It appears that all of the regular locomotive decoders ignore bit 7, I have looked at both NCE and Digitrax decoders.
Do any of the other locomotives support changing bit 7?
Or is there another way to control the motor with an accessory decoder?
Thanks
Unhandlaying Switches
You can find a lot of information on handlaying switches but this may be the first on "un-handlaying" switches.
Model Rail Radio...
The latest episode of Model Rail Radio is now available, featuring yours truly!
- well, ok featuring may be an overstatement.
Check it out: http://www.modelrailradio.com/archive.html#108
Cheers!
- Bill
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