Well good day and bad day, Busy for sure.
Got my wheel cars, parts from Jeff the train tender and nice to say after swapping out all the wheels and axles to needle point fast angle sets and re-wiring them the celebration blue stripe passenger cars run flawless. Thanks Lionel for such a challenge. WTH?
The bad news, The ZW I got from Chief many years ago got real hot when I was running the five illuminated passenger cars with the illuminated baggage car, a trainsounds boxcar and the three motor A-B-A set along with the inner loop and the MOW bump run. I noticed that the main loop slowed to a crawl and then smoke and stink from the ZW. Swapped it out with the spare and all seems good after 1/2 hour run and little to no heat up. Must be something wrong inside the ZW? Put a call into the guy who does transformer service in Shorewood where the daughter lives. Hope he is still alive. I can't understand why this ZW would fail after only 58 years?????
Back to good news. I also finished the Alaska ALCOs today because I got the Eskimo guys for the sides of the engines. I am very happy with the outcome of this set build. Check it out!
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Kev, From The North Bluff Above Marseilles IL.
Very nice looking set Kevin. Great Job.
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Kev - that set looks awesome!!! The diesel sounds are coming from the boxcar?
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submmbob Kev - that set looks awesome!!! The diesel sounds are coming from the boxcar?
Yes Bob, it is the Alaska Boxcar With Diesel TrainSounds 6-26817 that started the whole Alaska thing in the first place.
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