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Bye Bye to the Northern California Consolidated
Well, this is the beginning of the blog to track my progress of an N-scale endeavor.
Three road names of Western Pacific, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe.
As you can see the pics show the layout as a round the room...the duck under was low enough that my dear wife whacked her head three times in a row in less than a 5 minute time span, no joke. So I, yes I, decided to move it, because it was built to move, to the garage for a while.
ATLAS selector
I know this sounds basic but how do i wire an atlas selector? a schemeatic would be nice, thanks in advance
Painting Locos and Cars
I'm curious to know if anyone has ever removed paint from one of the Proto 2000 E series locomotives and what advice they may share with me. Thanks.
A little different - Real Operations - would your ops team organize this at home?
I suspect this is not approved for copyright, so view while you can. It's almost an hour's entertainment. So get comfortable first.
Athearn RDC
I wanted one RDC for my layout and I bought a Athearn at a swap meet real cheap. It was brand new in the box.
I'm sure I will need new rubber bands but has anyone repowered or regeared these? Does anyone have any experience with the Ernst kits for these? Can you still get them? It seems they are backordered everywhere.
Any ideas or info would be appreciated. Thanks MARK
Glueing Metal to Cardstock.
Hello All!!
I'm just now, going to glue Northeastern Scale Models(NSM), Corrugated Metal (HOSSMRSB) roof material, onto cardstock. But in the past, I did have a problem where the metal roof material, literally just popped right off, afte being glued well, for days! Obviously the wrong choice of the glue I used!!
Not wanting to make that mistake again, I decided I would conduct this little, totally non scientific experiment!!
Building a JL Innovative Brookside Ice House
Hello everyone
I thought I might as well share my latest project with you. I am building a JL Innovative Brookside Ice House kit. I have always liked the look of this kit from the pictures i have seen. When I got it home I realized that I don't really need an ice house. I assembled the main walls and started to think.
Generic equivalent to "boxcar red"??
Anyone ever experimented and found one? I have some Tichy boxcar kits that I will be lettering for my own road and also some for the Gorre and Daphetid. I know I can order some Polly Scale boxcar red for my airbrush or maybe a rattle can of Floquil and I may do just that. However, I'm on a tight budget right now and it occurs to me that since I'll be decorating the cars for freelance fictitous roads that if I can find something close enough down at the local Wally World, I could save a few bucks, especially when I start getting more cars.
Coupler picks and n scale
In a recent blog posting of mine, the issue was raised about whether it is a good (or even reasonable) idea to use a coupler pick with n scale equipment.
One side seems to say that the use of the coupler pick is just an invitation to derail the cars and promote the need to handle the cars to reset them on the track.
The other side seems to say that there is really no problem.
Another group (not really a side) is saying that magnets are a better approach all together.
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