Last night after a few bottles of Coors I ordered Bachmann K27 464 from Ridge Road Station
Anyone here already have a K? I need to know what type of Kadee couplers to get for it to connect upto my LGB car's.
Boy Brian, do you even have any track to run it on or is it going to be a dusty shelf queen? Don't let the missus see the bill for that one! Then you'll have to get a bunch of 1:20 cars to go along with it. No idea on the kadees maybe JDM will chime in here.
-Brian
lol shelf queen!
Right now I will be able to run it around the oval of track I have setup in my living room all the curves are R3 so shouldnt be a problem... Untill I get back to working outside then all that track is going in the backyard... So... I will be able to run it for a few weeks or so untill I finish my roadbed outside then it will be a "Shelf Queen" untill I finish the outside layout.
Next friday (5/30) im planning a day trip back up to Flint Michigan to visit and ride the Huckleberry RR at Crossroads Village and hopefully get some more pictures of the real D&RGW 464 in action
lol I'm not married I live with my folks and work enough overtime to make a sane mans head spin
Besides its my birthday tuesday and I have been putting off getting one for 6 months, Haaaaappy Birthday to me!
You mean a HogWart is gonna own a real engine now !!!!
That's GERRRAAATTE......
Byron C.
Mr_Ash wrote: work enough overtime to make a sane mans head spin
work enough overtime to make a sane mans head spin
Your sane?
Toad
EMPIRE II LINE wrote: You mean a HogWart is gonna own a real engine now !!!!
Well remember now he has to do all those upgrades and kitbash to it so it will be a real train!
LMAO no just a K27 unless you pay me
People giving me a hard time I must still be a noob lol
Mr_Ash wrote: LMAO no just a K27 unless you pay me People giving me a hard time I must still be a noob lol
Nah Youngster,
We just mess'in witch'ya a bit that's all, just in fun, don't take us so serious......
As a train person/nut, you one of us, OK......
BTW that K27 is really a nice one, spent the day at a fellow club members house, he had DRGW and was it really nice, he made a custom steam donkey car and a few others to go behind it, all to scale it was really a beauty of a train. Wethered and all.....
Mr_Ash wrote:Besides its my birthday tuesday
Besides its my birthday tuesday
In that case Brian may I wish you A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY
I hope you are not working that day and can spend it running trains.
Alan, Oliver & North Fork Railroad
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. Lewis Carroll English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)
unfortunately I have to work 4-12 monday and 8pm to 8am tuesday night into wednesday <- Smily is perfect because I work at a soap factory lol
I ordered the K on friday so it wont be here until wednesday or thursday at the latest, I work wednesday night into thursday and thursday I plan to sleep all day and drive up to Flint MI in the evening to spend the following day at Crossroads Village so chances are I wont get to "play with it" until next weekend I allways have my Annies & Big Haulers to run untill then so I'll live
As far as birthday stuff goes im getting abducted after work today at 4pm to go play a round of golf with my sisters fiancee and my dad then were meeting up with the rest of the family to go out to dinner and then see the new Indiana Jones flick
Your sane? Toad
I plead the fifth
JUST THINK SOON YOU WILL BE AS OLD AS ALOT OF THE REST OF US.
SO......... HAPPY BIRTHDAY............. TO YOU
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
dwbeckett wrote: JUST THINK SOON YOU WILL BE AS OLD AS ALOT OF THE REST OF US.SO......... HAPPY BIRTHDAY............. TO YOUDave
Don't remind me Pops.......Have a good B-Day! Soap? Which one?????
Dial Soap, I work security
Any second, minute, hour UPS is going to ring my doorbell and "IT WILL HAVE ARRIVED!!!" lol... I got off work at 8am came home cleaned and oiled all of my big haulers & annies, cleaned my track, mowed the lawn, used the weed eater on the sidewalks, patio and "city limits" for my garden rr under construction all the rain in the last few weeks really helped the weeds grow up and some ants moved in too!
I just got finished helping the city worker cut up the tree limb that fell across our driveway in that big storm last weekend, mowed the parkway and cleaned up the lawnmower...
Most Importantly changed the picture above my fireplace from RGS20 to D&RGW 464
The K's first train will consist of a LGB Box car, Baggage car, closed vestibule combine & coach and USA woodside caboose
Still looking for 1 more closed vestibule coach or combine
You really need to get off that Rock Star drink man.........me, I have naps, so I can do things later....unless the Oberstgruppenführer is up in arms and she is barking orders. Then I move!
lol I was up all night working 3rd shift drank to much coffie this morning and havent slept yet I feel like... well its my birthday and waiting for the present opening to get started lol
OMG OMG OMG UPS IS HERE!!!!
yeah ive been running it off and on last couple hours, she really doesnt seem to like the R3 curves much sounds about the same as running an annie through R1's that said after 20-30 minutes of running she didnt seem to complain as much but it was enough to make me think about changing the curves im going to be using outside again.
I ended up using a Kadee 830 coupler for the tender with one of the bachmann coupler mounts, they look almost the same but the bachmann mount is a bit slimmer where the kadee mount wont quite fit the gap anyway just popped the couple & spring in and it works normal same height as my LGB/Bmann rollingstock...
Wow....I don't get excited for presents anymore! Wish I had some of it.
Same here toad but today i felt like i a little kid on christmas morning with the biggest box under the tree
I need to atleast get a 1:20 caboose though, I dont mind the scale differance while its running but a 1:22 car sitting behind it on the fireplace mantel looks small, and I thought the USA caboose looked big for 1:22
I need to figure out how to remove the snowplow, I dont mind all the lights being on but I would like to be able to turn the smoke on and cant get the smokebox door open with the plow mounted.. think ill just wait untill the other pilots are available and get a road pilot and switch it to that
I like the plow and all plus just about all of the pictures I have seen of 464 in service it has the plow mounted but 464 has a road pilot on it now at Huckleberry RR and I like the looks of it. Plus then I would be able to switch back and forth
Oh yeah I dont like those little lids that open on the tender trucks lol I thought I lost 2 already but they were just opened all the way had me digging through the box and searching the living room for a couple hours this morning before I picked the tender up and looked at it from the botom DOH!
Ill try and get some pictures later, the lighting in my living room sucks its mostly lit by outside light through the windows and its storming so the room is dark
wow im a dummy, the smokebox door is cut in half across the middle just above where the top of the plow is so it still opens DOH lol here was me standing looking at the locomotive on the fireplace mantel and I thought to myself "wouldnt that be funny if the door was cut in half and it opened" i tried to open it and sure enought... Im not amused! lol (this doesnt mean im not getting another pilot! lol)
Size wise compared to the 1/22 stuff it reminds me of a standard gauge loco converted to NG wich in my head works out okay because the Grande sold 2 K27's to mexico and they converted them to Standard Gauge (I know SG K27's look funny in my head too!) lol yeah its like K37 big compared to he 1:22 stuff but botom line is i can live with the size doesnt bother me to much with freight cars but passenger cars... meh the bachmann cars seem small for 1/22 (want to get an aristo C16 and run them with that!) and the LGB cars would be perfect if they were a bit longer the closed vestibule cars look the best out of all of them. I might get an accucraft caboose to keep it company on the fireplace mantel lol thats about all there would be room for
That engine weighs a ton! Im not sure if your saposed to disconnect the tender before you pick it up but I have been picking it up off my living room oval of track to the fireplace mantel the same as my 4-6-0's.... left hand thumb and 2 fingers on the steam dome and right pickup the tender... geez... before I got this i thought my annies were heavy compared to the big hauler's... this thing... OMG its heavy! I was moving 2 of my annies around today and it felt like i was lifting freight cars LOL!!!
Also i would like to add that I liked the DVD included with the engine, lots of pictures of K27's ive never seen before along with a nice lil history lesson
Mr Ash,
I would be carefull picking up the K by the steam dome as I beleave i'ts a press fit into the boiler and could come out. I use both hands to pick up my engine, seperating the tender before moving it. Have you had any problems with the plugs from the engine to the tender comming loose?? I'm running on a temporary loop of track 8' curves and the plugs have come loose 4 or 5 times. I have #455 post wreck w plow, thanks for the tip on the smokebox door.
chuckger
The steam dome seems to be pretty solid, the sand dome popped right off though. Im just paranoid im going to break or bend somthing if I pick it up from the botom, same goes for the tender im keeping it connected to the engine because im paranoid im going to break the wires or connectors by attaching and reattaching them alot. I had a hard time getting them disconnected when I took the tender off to open it up and switch the polarity
As far as the wires coming loose no I havent had that problem and im also just running it on a temp loop with R3 curves, make sure that the tab on the plug is snapped over the part where it plugs into the tender and is locked in place.
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