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kitbash articulated
I've been thinking about using spare parts from a few nonworking steam locomotives to build a articulated mallet. I have 2 or 3 0-6-0 that dont run and was thinking about building a 0-6-6-0. What would I possibly need to do to make this work??? Has anyone ever done something like this?
eliminating the car reserves in JMRI
I would like to eliminate the reserves that are listed at various locations. I can not get certain trains to move cars because the reserve for that spur has a large number listed in the reserve column.
I tried resetting the car moves to zero with no success. I reviewed the JMRI Operations manual. I tried going on the Yahoo users group but that was an exercise in frustration.
There must be a simple solution but it eludes me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated....Ken
CONSOLIDATED NICKEL MINES Co.
Dear model railroad hobbyists.
Herewith a recent report about Consolidated Nickel Mines. You can find other info (especially relevant to one section of our layout - its rotary railcar dumper) in the MRH blog "One for Dr. geoff - Working tipple and rotary dumper).
From 29 September to 1 October we exhibited Consolidated Nickel at the Modell-Hobby-Spiel 2017 of Leipzig, Germany.
Coatesville
Coatesville is a major city at about the midpoint on my layout, home of Lukens Steel Co.
Reader question: How to reletter locos
Got this today from a reader ...
In the Ken Patterson Column in your Oct Issue, Whats New, page 6 of the article, the blue diesel I believe is an Athearn Genesis unit and I have 2 of these units with the same cab number 1201.
My question is: how to change the number? I don't know if it is a decal or printed on the cab? Any advice would be appreciated.
Thank you for your excellent publication. It's a great resource for the hobby.
Robie MacDonald
Santa Fe Train Station (actually a UP station in LA)
I have a strong preference for steam engines, but have collected lots of diesels as well. So lets say I will model that transition era were both were utilized. I am also not a strict time frame person that feels a need to model any particular era. I just like the looks of model trains, particularly the highly detailed ones that have come out over the past 15 years.
BQR Control Panel Update
As with everything on a model railroad layout, after I thought I was finished I had an inspriation as to how to connect a second RRampMeter to the other booster. And had been working on the train elevator and came up with a way to integrate its control with the panel.
You Call That a Tank Car?...
....Now that's a Tankcar!
No not really but its origin is obvious!
It is actually several scrapped tank cars welded together to form a pipe. Not sure if it was done for an actual job or just to prove they could do it.
It was done by The Railroad Yard, Inc. a company which supplies scrapped tank cars for culverts and bridges.
Eastbound on the St J and LV with all leased power
The video and related entries are no longer representative of the present state of the layout. Many changes have occurred since. Seen much more recent entries/diagrams to get a sense of the layout's arrangement. We usually limit the number of cars to 24-28 but cn do longer trains if a helper arrangement is used. I'll see what I can do for a fresh video.
Building in paper and a new peeling paint discovery
I have discovered a new (at least to me) method for peeling paint. This is in N scale.
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