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Controller or phone holder
Well I picked up a DigiTrax wi-fi interface and it's working pretty good.
I upgraded the wife's phone and I'm using her old one as my controller. So I wanted a place to park the phone when not in use and went on a search. Went to the dollar store first and nothing peaked my interest there. Next was Wally World and wandered through kitchen, bath, and sporting goods, I ended up in automotive and came across a nifty little pouch that's supposed to hang from the vent in your car. It's made by Auto Drive. Pics below.
Kadee couplers
I want to change the couplers on my Athearn 60' Hi-Cube box cars over to Kadee's, any idea which model to use? Thank you in advance!
Making Covers for your Hoppers
I have a handful of hoppers that need covers to suit the needs of my layout as they will be delivering grain and hops to a brewery. I didnt want to use boxcars for this. Does anyone sell just the covers that I can paint to match? If not anyone made covers from scratch and willing to post a tutorial?
Santa Fe - High Desert Division - Update
Hi All,
I have attached the current version of the track plan that I am working on. For the most part its a double deck layout with lower staging. I am looking for tips, concerns, possible changes and suggestions. Below are a few stats about the layout plan.
Railroad: ATSF & DRGW along with BN, UP, C&W and Santa Fe Southern (Kansas and New Mexico Divisions)
Era: 1990-1996
Scale: HO
Min Radius: 30"
Turnouts: Main Line #8 all others #6 (fast-tracks)
General Cordless Precision Screwdriver Chuck for Drilling Needed
I am looking for a mini/micro chuck that will fit in a General Cordless Precision Screwdriver to make a cordless very slow speed drill for working with resin and plastic kits and kitbashes. I found the screwdriver at a decent price but attempts at finding a workable chuck for 60-80 drills have been thusfar fruitless. I found a Gyros 45-0181 Mini Adapter Chuck but it has a 1/8 inch shank and have not yet found an adapter to make it work with the fixed 3/8 inch hexagonal screw driver "chuck" of the screwdriver.
Image Converter
I have a number of traffic reports for inbound and outbound freight by location in PDF format. I only need some of the information so I did screen shots to PNG format....now I am trying to convert Excel format and not having luck. Anyone know of a excellent converter that is free that will do png to excel? Or should I try converting the original PDF to excel? What works best? Trying to save time from manually entering several hundred shipments.
Thanks
Michael
Best strategy/practice to plan transition from parallel tangent to parallel curved track?
I use 3dplanit and have a design I started to implement. It was based on 32" min radius for mainline. It is single track but has passing siding and other track in parallel around curves. I had settled in 2 1/8" center to center standard (from practical testing, John Armstrong's planning book, and car length to curve nX). Then I read the NMRA RP-7 and thought what if I need more spacing for future equipment.
"How much sound"? in a specific DCC consist?
Hi all,
While working on my new layout i will slowly be adding DCC to several DC locomotives on my fleet. I am having some thoughts and questions with respect to "how much sound" should i have in a particular consist.
The thoughts:
The consist will be having Genesis F units' for passenger service in ABBBA and AABBA setups.
The middle B unit on the first consist is going to be a dummy unit in the ABBBA consist.
I am thinking of having Sound decoders on the A units, motor only on the B units.
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