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Direction of Southern GP-30s
I have a rather odd question. I am trying to replicate Southern Railway's GP-30 #2601, which itself has been preserved at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. In doing research, I have ran across a photo of the 2601 after restoration, with the "F" to indicate "Front" at the short hood end of the loco. Were not all of Southern's fleet set up to run long hood forward, or was the GP-30 class different? Or, was 2601 reconfigured to run short hood forward?
Anyone ever use a sound cam with a Bachmann HO shay? With the Bachmann climax?
Looking for recommendations, hints, warnings, etc. about using a cam to get a WOW decoder to support the shay's 3 cylinders; also not sure if it's worth the effort for the gearing that complicates the relationship between cylinder vs. wheel rotation ratios of a climax.
ATSF Paradigm Division - Just Running Trains and Finding More Stuff to Fix
I have spent several hours over the last month pulling up each of the 48 insulfrog turnouts on the staging level to insulate the frogs. This was fairly easy but tedious as I use track nails to hold down my turnouts and I do not solder them to the incoming or outgoing tracks.
Things got built
It's been a while since the last update and I actually got to build something. However, my building efforts didn't quite follow my original plans.
Landor Street - Exhibition Debut.
Landor Street was exhibited for the first time yesterday at TVNAM in the UK. I'm very pleased to say that the layout ran flawlessly all day and seemed to be well received by the visitors to the show. A big thank you to my guest operator Steve Williams (seen in the pictures) who looked after the layout for most of the day. Sorry for the poor quality of the pics - the yellow walls played havoc with the camera settings.
An Exercise in Selective Compression
One of the rural towns along the area I would like to model is Hartland, Wisconsin. I really like the track schematic as seen here:
I did a full scale mock-up of this keeping the proportions as close as possible to the picture above:
Alternate materials for scenery, landscape, terrain, rocks and trees modeling
I recently purchased a new micro cut paper shredder and after shredding tons of old paper clutter, I realized that the shredded paper was so fine that it could be used to build model scenery, rocks and landscape.
Most of us own some kind of paper shredder but the stuff from the "cross cut" type really works, since it cuts it very fine. Micro-cut shredders produce much finer particles, so they can be used in scenic modeling requiring smoother surfaces..
Turnout and Signal Operation for DCC Decoder
I had this challenge of operating a turnout motor and simultaneously operate a signal to indicate the direction the points were set.
Since I do not use the expensive Tortoise or Cobalt turnout motors that have a set on contacts to operate accessories, I came up with this simple idea and circuit to operate both accessories simultaneously, from the same DCC trigger.
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