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More of the Same, But Different
More of the Same, But Different
Time to assign some power to an early 60’s Southern Pacific passenger train. One loco will be a Life Like era Proto 2000 E8 in Black Widow. As on the UP e-units, the Kato motor transplant, drive line upgrades, truck tuning, LED lights, and Tsunami 2 are the same. The choice of speakers and mounting are different. More follows
HO Gondolas
What HO gondolas are available that would be correct for a late 70s-early 80s time period. I believe alot of the Thrall gondolas available were based on mid 1990s models.
EZ Command Experiment
I did an experiment tonight.
I use the Bachmann EZ Command DCC system. I have the EZ Commander, and two "Walk Around Companions" on my layout.
So I placed all of my DCC engines on the layout tonight. (I usually run with just six DCC sound engines, one lighted car that uses track power, and one DCC sound car)
So tonight, I put them all on.
NINE DCC sound engines, ONE DC engine (the Pegasus) the light caboose (Proto 2000) and the BLI sound cattle car.
Track plan critique
Hello folks. I've finally screwed up my courage to post a track plan I've been working on for some time. It's meant to be a single module with staging on the right side. As of now this is all the room I have.
Anyhow, here we are...my first real attempt at an N scale railroad empire. The module is 18" x 60" I'm using Atlas code 55, the turnouts on the main are #7s and #5s everywhere else.
problem finding JMRI
Hi guys,
ive been looking at assembling a dcc++ base to be able to program and test my motive power and to just generally play with until i get a running section complete on my new layout. i already have an uno and ordering the motor sheid this weekend. the problem im having is that i cant seem to find a working link to download JMRI. ive used 3 different browsers and every link seems to be saying site not found. any ideas? thanks
Decals for US Plywood Thrall all door boxcar.
Does anyone know if there are decals available for the US Plywood Thrall all door boxcar in HO scale?
I've done the normal web search and, so far, have come up empty handed.
Thanks
Larry B
IAIS's West End - Favorite scene
A couple months ago I was posting about my layout's signature scene, but this time, I thought I'd veer from that to discuss my favorite scene: The crossovers at the west end of Atlantic, Iowa.
Details in the first reply.
Layout design question based on TOMA and One Town Layout concepts
So life has decided for me that I will be creating a switching layout so im going to embracethe TOMA concept. My layout will be Grand Trunk Western ...
Epic keepalive failure
Just in case somebody else thinks about adding a diy keepalive to a loco, please take note of how catastrophically bad things can get:
Note to self, google for "parallel tantalum capacitors", hit I'm Feeling Lucky, read on...
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