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Creating A More Realistic Locomotive Light
The project started innocently enough, upgrading several Stewart F-units to I-M bodies. The Kato mechanisms are excellent but the Stewart shell cannot compare with current highly detailed offerings. I changed the original shells out to those offered by Inter-Mountain and with some weathering, you almost do not notice the I-M’s slightly incorrect nose profile.
Configuring 16 mm Diameter Tablet Speakers For Installation in Diesels
The project began when I wanted to maximize the sound level and fidelity of sugar cube speakers to be installed in an early 2000 vintage Athearn RTR SD40-2. I assembled a selection of the familiar rectangular shaped speakers from An Affair With Trains in Phoenix. I also became aware of a round version while watching a YouTube video by Laurie McLean, an MMR in Australia. He made reference to George at TVW Miniatures in WI, so I contacted him. The website is www.tvwminiatures.com/. I purchased three with housings as my trial.
Ice House
In looking at models of ice house a come across this one and I was wondering how it worked.
Specifically where did they store the ice and how did it get on the platform? Also what is the cupola for? link is below. Thanks in advance
https://www.walthers.com/brookside-ice-house-kit-5-3-8-x-9-quot-13-6-x-22-5cm
Shingling in N Scale
Sometime back I believe I had posted a question about finding shingles for N scale structures. For lots of reasons I never got any further than that with the project. On our recent trip to MN my wife found N scale shingles from GCLaser. These things were great and I definitely recommend them. Easy to use.
AK Interactive Streaking Effects
This is the last video in my mini-series on AK Interactive weathering sets.
Peoria & Southern Tank Car
To All: I lettered this milk tank car for my Facebook friend Joel Pendegraft's freelanced Peoria Southern Railway. I did not weather the car as milk companies tried to keep these cars clean. This car will be routed to the Twin Pines Dairy plant on my layout. Who remembers Twin Pines Dairy out of Detroit, Michigan? Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.
Teenagers & the Problem with Model Railroading
It's a problem that I never had, at least nothing like it is today. When I first got into HO the nearest little hobby shop was full line, even though it was in a city with a population of only 25,000. Now I live in a city in excess of 200,000 souls but the only hobby shop has just a couple of aisles of model railroad items, mostly scenery, 1 or 2 locomotives and no power packs except those sold as part of the toy train sets for children.
Operations, and the West
Okay, so... taking stock at the collection so far, and figuring out maybe some ideas for a module, that will someday become a part of an Old West layout, and I figured this might be a bit fun to get some ideas from you folks. I have never been to an ops session, so I don't know the first clue about ops, or how to work it into the Old West, but... here's what I have so far (the cars seem limited and few, but, I've been building them from kits, they look real nice, and operate amazingly)
2 Alco 2-6-0 (DCC/Sound)
1 Baldwin 4-6-0 (DCC/Sound)
TT&TO Temptation
Since I started building the layout I have been expecting to use either the MBS (Manual Block System) or OCS (Occupancy Control System) method to control train movements. My initial era (mid 1990’s) put it squarely into the OCS era. I knew that CN used TT&TO until the early 1980’s but this was a bit of esoteric information for me when construction commenced. Since then I have backdated to the 1980’s for my era, but I continued to expect to use OCS.
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