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Newest Acquisition - Bowser MLW M636... with sound!
The mailman dropped off the newest member of my locomotive roster today: a new Bowser M636 decorated for Canadian Pacific. I just had to share my excitement!
DCC in a Dummy?
Probably an odd question, but here goes...
I have a staging yard that is three tracks; no way to turn around locos. Also, my layout (urban, industrial) has no wye or turntable. My loco for the train to and from the staging yard is an F-7 (Intermountain, sound, Milwaukee).
dcc sound volume
I recently learned from my "sound vs no sound" post that you can mute the sound on locomotives, but can a guy control the volume of the sound, and or have sound for the horn and bell only?? The volume on my Bachman blasts over the volume on my Athearn, and I have not yet ventured into higher end DCC with sound locomotives until the new proposed railroad budget gets passed by the war department...aka my wife..
Layout Planning and common sense
Has common sense left the layout planning process?
All too often I see layouts being planned and built that are way too grandiose for the size of the room. Staging for hundreds of cars and rolling stock that could never be run in any reasonable operating session. Poor access to rear areas of the bench work, tight bottlenecks between layout boards.
Does anyone have an electric liftup that is simple
Has anyone made or done a electric lift up. Can you show a pic and tell us how this is possible. Is it reasonably cheap? Is there already a product out there etc. Solving he doorway entrance to the train room.
Regards James
Walthers: Not supporting N scale?
I've been noticing all these great new products coming out from Walthers - the SceneMaster range, the Cornerstone Printing plant, cold storage facility, etc. Perfect for my modern outline layout (especially the cold storage facility, as my location has one in real life)...however...I model N scale...and all these new structures, people and vehicles are HO only.
Scratchbuilding an Animated Water Tower
Part 1: Basic Structure
All steam railroads need water towers, and the BVLC is no exception. I'd planned to have one water tower on each side of the layout, given that they depict different ends of the same line. With that in mind, I scatchbuilt and animated both of them.
Fascia color choices
Thanks to advice on these forums, I changed the color of my fascia and lower wall from a sage green to a brownish green and lower wall gray.
Eastern California V2.0 Update #6
Progress on version 2.0 of our Eastern California layout has continued and we are now on to the second phase, or the middle portion of the run from San Diego to Seattle. Geographically this is northern California and southern Oregon. I was particularly excited to get to the Feather River portion which includes a compressed Keddie Wye:
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Walthers Brickworks
Did anyone else notice that the "New" brickworks factory is really just Northern Light and Power with a different stock number?
I hate to be this snarky, but I think Walthers needs to step up their drug testing program.
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