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ISO Atlas Reading And Northern 2 Rail O Locomotives
Looking for the Atlas Reading & Northern U23B or SW8 2 Rail O locomotives in good condition. If you have one you'd be willing to part with, please let me know.
What's on your workbench - July 2020
Launching a new thread for your July 2020 workbench progress. Let's see what you have been building!
Eric
Eric Hansmann
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Shorting Sunset Models Brass O-8
Hello everyone.
I am a novice at brass locos and I have just bought a Sunset Models Great Northern O-8 class. I have the issue of the driving wheels shorting out the test track when attached with the rods. The wheels are fine but once I install the rods it begins to short. I have done everything I can find on the internet to "fix" the issue.
Does anyone have any solutions or have a suggestion for someone to fix it for me?
Whither Ops Sessions?
It's been a while since I've posted, but suffice it to say that most of May and June were taken up with car and house projects. Thankfully, those are in the rear-view and I'm turning my attention back to the layout. But everything's a bit different - I haven't had a monthly ops session since the end of January.
Unused brass track - worth trying to sell or just junk?
A few years ago when I first tried to start model railroading I got a lot of old brass track from a friend. It looks pretty much new, but I've decided that it's probably best to use nickel silver track instead. The only question I have is what to do with the brass track. I have a lot of it in good condition, is it likely that it could be sold on eBay or elsewhere, or is it just junk that no one would buy?
Animating Semaphore signals
Apart from servos controlled by ardriuno or similar complex electronic devices, are there simpler ways to operate a semaphore signal? I have thought of two. 1. Use a relay, by soldering a piece of wire to the moving contact, you can then attach that wire to the actuating arm of the semaphore to operate the blade/arm. My prototype (South African Railways) used upper quadrant semaphores, so I simply have to push the arm/blade up and keep it up till the train has passed and triggered an optical sensor to disconnect the power to the semaphore which will then reset it to danger.
Organizing, storing, and keeping track of stuff for the layout
I've seen some other posts on the NMRA facebook page about how people store things. The one constant is that everyone accumulates lots of stuff and then needs to find it. A couple of thoughts about the tricks I use:
Organizing:
help to identify N scale loco Arnold Serie 2
I came across some model freight trains of my late father. And could use some assistance identifying the loco in the pic. It runs!. I'm still learning the wheel nomenclature.
Is this an 0-6-0?
The middle two wheels don't drive but not sure if that is just a model difference or if original was built same way?
Name?
As always, thanks in advance for review and comment. This is always a very helpful forum.
An update on the "please show us" series. (includes new update on shift over from "blog" format to "topic" format)
Note: All future "Please Show Us" Series entries will be made in "topics" instead of "blogs."
Armchair workdesk
To spend more time with family I want to create an Armchair workstation that allows me to spend time with the wife and still be able to do trains in some small way. What suggestions or ideas for operating a workstation in your lounge/ living room. I've already able to have a live-rail display but want to move that to doing that to a armchair workstation. What pics do you have if you are working in an Armchair. Is it a feasible goal and what sort of tasks do you do. Obviously spray paintinging is out of the question but there is few tasks i could do while watching tv.
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