Modeling topic

Kansas Pacific Boxcar

Mon, 2014-12-15 14:30 — ferroequinologist1

Locos - Rolling stock (general)

Kansas Pacific Boxcar

To All: One of the neatest freelanced lines I have done is Anthony Lorch's Kansas Pacific RR. I painted, lettered, weathered and dull coated this 40 foot Athearn car. Decals are available from Highball Graphics. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

Sonora Baja California railroad GP40

Mon, 2014-12-15 07:47 — TRENET

Locos - Rolling stock (general)

DCC readiness

Mon, 2014-12-15 03:49 — Martin Larsen

Hi Gang,

I am contemplating investing in an Athern RTR GP38-2, the CSX #2559.

I am wondering weather or not this unit is DCC ready and if so, what decoder to choose for it - I prefer a drop-in sound decoder, but beggars can't be choosers...

Thankyou for your time,

Martin

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Anyone tried to fix dt300 with bad capacitor issue?

Sun, 2014-12-14 18:32 — Delray1967

At our modular club's last show, someone picked up an old dt300 throttle and found the display to flash between the voltage display and the hexadecimal display every second or so. Doing a quick search with my phone, this turns out to be a common issue caused by bad capacitors being installed when the throttles were made (NOT Digitrax's fault at all). I read it would cost about $35 to send the throttles back to Digitrax to repair (we have two of them), which is a bit much for our club, especially since these throttles get very little use.

Pagosa & Southern RR (East Coast Version)

Sun, 2014-12-14 16:45 — jarhead

First and foremost, I want to thank Dave Meek for the inspiration. Here is the beginning of my version of the Pagosa & Southern in N scale. But mine will be a modern version in South Florida, Florida East Coast will be the main railroad serving an industrial site. The following photos is just the beginning. The layout is the same size as Dave's, 1' x 6'. Made from a shelf bought at the big orange box store. Came to the exact size. The frame I made from fine pine with a decorative lip. I am planning to take this layout to my office at work.

A Good Railroad to model (NASA RR)

Sun, 2014-12-14 16:20 — jarhead

This will be a great railroad to model. You have different scenery, bridges, loads from the harbor, the spent rocket boosters, interchange with the FEC RR. A lot of operational opportunities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZZV4yZCcEQ

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Changes at Cranberry

Sun, 2014-12-14 16:09 — mesimpson

Trackwork

Something has been bothering me about the Cranberry Portage siding and interchange track. My original trackplan had a crossover switch about 1/2 way down the siding, with the idea that if a passenger train was there a second train could still access the siding. However in reality my standard sized passenger train (2 FP9A, 1 SGU, baggage car, 2 coaches and 2 sleepers) was too long to fit in the siding and leave the cross over unblocked.

Rail GAp device

Sun, 2014-12-14 15:09 — Larry Kedes

I lost track of information about a commercial product for stabilizing track on either side of an inserted rail gap. My recollection is that the product was a metallic set of ties that are slipped under the rail at the site of the desired gap, The rail is soldered to the metallic tie set and then, once the rails are firmly in place, a gap is created. The tie pads on either side of the gap are of course not electrically continuous.