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HELP? Reverse Loop Questions
I posted this track plan in the opening dialogue as I felt multiple references back to it might be necessary. (sorry for the lousy quality, I don't do computer drawings)
Custom designing a shell for a passenger coach
another neat project of mine I am currently working on. I am planning on designing and building a body shell to fit on top of this Athearn Observation coach kit. The planned modifications would keep the observation deck, but add a dome that extends almost the full length of the coach, as well as the possibility of a small anti-aircraft turret on the section of the roof above a the deck. The completed coach would be named “Primo Victoria”, which is Latin for First Victory. Any thoughts or advice on how I could build the dome?
Possible uses for an articulated tanker?
Alright
so I recently acquired a pair of tanker cars that are literally the exact same, with the same car number and labelled for the same company. I decided that instead of repainting or renumbering the cars, I would use an extra bogie I had available to make what is now my only articulated car. It can still take my 18 radius curves, but the question is, what sort of operating capabilities do I have with said car? Any thoughts or opinions?
DCC tools
I'm in the midst of upgrading several brass steam locomotives from straight DCC to full sound DCC with Keep Alive/CurrentKeeper devices. The Keep Alive parts are new to me -- I'm a bit late to get into the game and am excited about the possibilities -- so I cut out styrofoam sample pieces sized to match the Soundtraxx and TCS keep alive offerings (Photo 1). I use these when making my initial assessment of what can fit inside my often-compact logging steam locos. Very handy tools the avoid a lot of unnecessary keep alive device handling before installation begins.
Western Maryland - GP35 (Circus Scheme) Project...
After not being able to source another HO Scale - Western Maryland - GP35 in their Circus scheme, I decided to have a go at making my own.<
New ISE sound module
New ISE product – Soundbytes! Check out the new sound module offered by Iowa Scaled Engineering. A neat little unit for playing single sounds. I plan to use some for the crossing bell for my three grade crossings. They offer a number of prototype bell sounds which you can hear on their product page and they plan to release more sounds in the future.
HO scale DCC operating CNJ steam crane (and wreck train) build. The journey.
After a lot of back and forth with myself I decided to strip the repaint the cab with the correct decals to the era I model as well as changing out the digitrax decoder for an ESU loksound micro. I then added a custom made sound set I created using their software and lokprogrammer.
There's never time to do it right but there's always time to do it over (Turnout replacement and switch machine control)
When I was making the push to get to driving the golden spike on this version of the Black N' Blue and I got to the end of the line that is the two stub end staging tracks in the closet, I ended up shoehorning in a left handed turnout where the flow of the track work really called for a right. I thought it would be fine, its an unscenicked hidden area so I wasn't worried about looks. For the time being, I had just temporarily fixed the points in the diverging direction and moved on with other things.
Decoder wire
Is 30AWG wire okay for running from the decoder to the motor ? Seems a little small.
Chet
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