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Posted by Ken68 on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:11 AM
Also added some more Playmobil Future Planet sets to my setup. The green base station with solar powered fan and battery powered lights and guns. Also the red base station with battery powered gun and remote controlled car. Also the green remote controlled car as well. Also added more automobiles and figures from the spy tech theme as well. Just picked up the Playmobil Police helicopter as well.
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Posted by Ken68 on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:03 AM
Picked up the LGB 2nd motor unit for the LGB Ice 3 train and installed it and removed the LiFePO4 battery pack and added some Lead weight as well. Also picked up the LGB 1st class and Bistro Restaurant Ice 3 cars as well. Also added the metal wheels as well. As a bonus the local hobby shop sold me a old used LGB 10A 24V Jumbo power supply unit that just needed a little bit of work for $75.00. I bought it and took it home and fixed it up and it only took about 1/2 an hour and it was back up and running. Repaired some poor solder connections and cleaned up some minor corrosion points as well. I then purchased the corresponding LGB Wired Remote for the LGB Jumbo 10A 24V power supply. Using it instead of my separate LGB 6A 18V transformer and LGB 5A throttle combo. I love the ability to adjust the braking and throttle ramps and min/max voltages as well. Will look into the Jumbo's built in automation features later on as well.
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Posted by Ken68 on Sunday, December 29, 2013 6:39 AM
Cool what they done with that real train. I do not have the room or the finances for something like that though. I will stay with my model trains. Installed a red led light in the back of the ICE 3 train with a switch and a 14V 10A LiFePO4 battery pack to run the led light till I get the motor upgrade kit next year.
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Posted by Gaby on Sunday, December 29, 2013 6:04 AM

Hi Kenneth,

Go to WWW blue-star-train.de to what they have done with dilivering food.

Tom

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Posted by Ken68 on Thursday, December 26, 2013 10:09 AM
I have also added a LGB yellow crane car and a silver tank car to my diesel freight consist. And purchased some Bachmann G scale logs for my LGB Flat Car with steaks as a better looking load
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Posted by Ken68 on Thursday, December 26, 2013 10:05 AM
I have added to my set a Playmobil train station and a Playmobil motorized cargo crane. Also added a Playmobil cargo train with added coal tipper car, flatbed car and a LGB toy train caboose. Just bought a LGB toy train ICE train as well. Will be getting the 2nd motor unit with LED headlights for the ICE as well as the 2nd passenger car and the bistro restaurant car as well. Later on planning to add a Playmobil airport with cargo jet. Also a Playmobil clinic as well.
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Posted by Ken68 on Friday, August 2, 2013 12:05 AM

Well I purchased the replacement drive motor for my starter set locomotive and installed it. The locomotive is up and running like new again.

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Posted by Ken68 on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:13 AM

Well I had my first fatality running my train set. I setup my starter kit steamer with it's tender and four lighted coaches going around the layout fine. I left it running at about half speed for a few hours. Then I fell asleep for the night. I woke up at 4:30am this morning and heard the engine puffing away. But then I noticed it was puffing away sound wise and the lights were running but the train was standing still. I turned off the throttle and checked everything. No derailment no track blockages nothing. When I picked up the engine I noticed the bottom was very hot and I smelled a hot electrical and hot grease smell coming from the bottom of the engine. So I disassembled the engine and extracted the drive motor. A bearing on one side of the armature had failed thus disabling the drive motor. So the steamer is out of commission until a replacement is available from LGB at my local hobby store.

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Posted by Ken68 on Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:46 PM

You are welcome.

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Posted by SparkyJoe on Sunday, July 28, 2013 11:02 AM

Thanks Ken. I will give it a try.

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Posted by Ken68 on Sunday, July 28, 2013 7:24 AM

I used two small gauge wires to connect directly to the LGB Ball Bearing Wheel power pickups in parallel with the wires going to the LED light.

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Posted by SparkyJoe on Sunday, July 28, 2013 6:58 AM

Ken,

Neat idea with the capacitor. I have a couple of Bachmann coaches that could benefit from your idea. Can you show me where you hooked this up?

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Posted by Ken68 on Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:35 PM

I have decided to split my cars up between the Santa Fe Steamer and the DB Diesel. The Santa Fe Steamer will be a passenger train and the DB Diesel will a freight train. So I will put all the freight cars and the lighted caboose on the DB Diesel. And the Santa Fe will get the lighted carriages. I have a 4 axle flatbed, 3 2 axle box cars and a 2 axle lighted caboose for the freight train. For the passenger train I have 3 lighted carriages with passengers. I will be getting another carriage tomorrow with more passengers for it. I already have the LGB Ball Bearing Wheel Set with Power Pickups and a white LED for it to light it up. That will give me four lighted coaches for my Santa Fe Steamer. Later on I will get a fifth coach and lighting parts and passengers to complete the passenger train. As far as the freight train goes later on I will pick up a crane car to complete the freight train. Then I will see about getting more track for when I setup outside.

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Posted by Ken68 on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:22 PM

You are welcome.

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Posted by monsterbigmike on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:18 PM

thanks for the pic

I have n scale and G scale

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Posted by Ken68 on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 9:46 PM

Here is a link to a post with some photos of my steam train on the first page and on the third page is pictures of my LGB #2051 S Diesel Locomotive.

http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?151012-New-to-G-Scale-Model-Railroading!/page1

 

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Posted by monsterbigmike on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 10:22 PM

I would love to see some pics please

I have n scale and G scale

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Posted by Ken68 on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:13 PM
Well I picked up on my lunch my used LGB 2051 S Diesel Locomotive. Will be cleaning it's wheels up then running it tonight.
 
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Posted by Ken68 on Tuesday, July 9, 2013 9:49 AM

Will be picking up soon a LGB #2051 used Diesel with sound from my local hobby shop to add to  my setup.

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Posted by dwbeckett on Thursday, June 27, 2013 9:31 AM

try online you may be able to fine Bud truck complete with case's of bottles the larger the truck the more bottles ( that's 1 ton and up ) they are 1/24 scale. the manufacture 's name slips my mind . darn old age.....

Dave

 

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Posted by Ken68 on Monday, June 24, 2013 1:34 PM

Added a capacitor to each of the lighted coaches to prevent flickering. Waiting for the LGB Ball Bearing Wheel kit to arrive to light up my last coach and also will add a capacitor to that coach as well and then my complete train will be on metal wheels. Then all I need are more seated passengers for the coaches and some beer bottles and cases for my beer cars.

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Posted by Grims on Friday, June 21, 2013 4:34 PM

when will we see pics of your set up?

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Posted by Ken68 on Friday, June 21, 2013 6:04 AM

Well I picked up another set of spoke metal wheels and two sets of solid metal wheels for my train set. The spoke set is for my Nestle car and the two solid sets are for my 4 axle flat car. I also picked up another used LGB #3 passenger coach in beige and orange. I will be adding LGB Ball Bearing Wheels and a LED as soon as my hobby shop gets them back in stock.


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Posted by Ken68 on Friday, June 14, 2013 9:54 PM

Well I upgraded to a LGB 6 Amp Transformer, picked up some Ball Bearing Wheel Sets and LEDs to light up my coaches. Also picked up a used LGB 20020 Fortuna Flyer for my kids. Cleaned it up and the kids love running it on the track.


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Posted by Ken68 on Sunday, June 9, 2013 1:10 PM
Well I am out in my driveway again with an even longer and wider oval to run my LGB train on. I want to run it few a few hours t test the capacitor in the caboose. I it works out after this test I will outfit my coaches with them when I get the LGB Ball Bearing Wheels from the hobby shop. I was at the hobby shop yesterday and picked up two LGB Metal Wheel Kits and outfitted my two beer cars with them to replace the stock plastic wheels. Now the only cars with factory plastic wheels left is my flatbed car and the two coaches. Wednesday if the hobby shop has more metal wheel kits in stock I will pick up two more kits to outfit the flatcar because it requires two kits because it has four axels.
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Posted by Ken68 on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 6:32 PM
I added a 200V 638uf Electrolytic Capacitor in the caboose connected to the yellow LEDs to prevent the flickering from intermittent power connections. It works flawlessly. I got the capacitor from a defective battery charger. I did not connect one to the cabooses marker lanterns because I feel they look better flickering while rolling down the track.
 
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Posted by Ken68 on Sunday, June 2, 2013 9:37 AM

Well last Tuesday I picked up the fencing kit to finish off my Noch Z scale briefcase layout. I also picked up 7 figures (4 seated, two standing and one walking) for my coaches. I also picked up a Bachmann Track Tools Kit and detailed my locomotive, tender and caboose with that kit. I also picked up the last full box of 10000 R1 straight tracks. But when I am ready the hobby shop has stock of used tracks that just needs cleaning from being stored in a unheated shed, the brass rails are tarnished but in good condition. They will give me a good price on it because they know I will have to spend time cleaning it up before I can use it. By the end of this summer I want to have 12 complete boxes of 10000 R1 straights and 12 complete boxes of 11000 R1 curves. I currently have 4 complete boxes of straights and 3 complete boxes of curves. I also want to get some more track magnets and more manual R1 turnout left and rights probably 2 more of each. If my LGB 1 AMP Transformer becomes no longer powerful enough for the larger layout then I will replace it with the older Lionel 18V AC 40VA Transformer I have on my N scale layout and use the LGB 1 AMP Transformer for the N scale layout. I also ordered more LGB Ball Bearing Wheelsets. Over time I am going to replace all the plastic wheelsets with LGB Ball Bearing Wheelsets to have the least amount of rolling resistance to prolong the life of my locomotives gears and motor. Also metal wheels look better as well.

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Posted by Ken68 on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 11:16 PM

That is a beautiful Live Steam Locomotive for sure. Congratulations. I am just starting out and not building a outdoor layout. I setup my G scale and take it down currently. I just bought 4 painted seated passengers and put them in my red coach. I also bought some tools and glued them on my Locomotive, tender and caboose for a more realistic look. Asked my local hobby shop to see about getting more passengers for my coaches. Also picked up the fencing for my Noch Z scale briefcase layout and finished it off and closed off that layout as finished.

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Posted by emdmike on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 9:57 AM

Sounds like you have a great start in G scale.  Here is a pic of my engine to give you some food for thought, its a Roundhouse Lady Anne that I built from a kit(can also be bought RTR and RC controled), it burns butane gas to create steam.  No need for any power on the track.  I, like you, started with all LGB stuff but moved away from track power once I put up a perminant outdoor layout.  I run live steam only at the moment but plan to get a diesel that will have onboard battery control in the future.  I also model in the smaller scales, but only have a small HO/OO layout now thats mostly for testing models I have repaired for others.  My main interest is in UK/European style narrow gauge trains. This engine looks stunning pulling my LGB blue/cream 2 axle passenger coaches !  Cheers  Mike

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