Close Call !!!!

[jlcjrbal]

Well I decided to go with the WS risers and such. Began working on the Mainline and I was just having my Loco go around really slow to see if my efforts paid off. First time around was perfect second time I watched my 2-8-2 BLI fall off the side and under the bench..my heart just sank. all in all I just lost one of the spokes that held the handrail the went down the engine

Anyway I think I will purchase a tester Loco as I would hate to see anything else happen to the BLI.. Any suggestions???? Doing HO BAlt-Ohio Steam, will eventually have a turntable, yard and such LMK Joseph

[Anonymous]

I'd suggest you look at Bachmann's steamers - these are fairly cheap and available in a wide variety of colour schemes - not sure how accurate they are (suspect not very!) but they are far cheaper than BLI. I would suspect that steamers would be less forgiving of track problems than diesels as they have longer fixed wheelbases. Bachmann have three 4-8-4s that might be good as testers - none are B&O though. The largest B&O liveried loco they offer is a 2-6-2 tender loco - as said before, I have no idea whether this loco is accurate but it is fairly cheap and should be good for testing.

[NZRMac]

I have two new passenger cars




While running them up on my mainline behind my wee Bachmann 2-6-0 they mysterously uncoupled and became runaways.
I wasn't looking but heard the crash, it's an aweful sound, but luckly not much damage the wheels all popped out easily fixed!!
I will have to fix an outside guardrail or something. I don't like that crashing sound.

Ken

[jlcjrbal]

Thanks for the info, I am still in the planning stages of my layout and I know I am planning a yard-turtable-roundhouse so I had already been thinking about a train to do the dirty wotk in the yard.. Joseph

[Anonymous]

I have had a few freight cars take a dive. Its always as if time just stops as you watch the cars fall 50" to the concrete floor.
I then ask myself why in the world I did open grid benchwork.
I myself still need to cut some strips of cardboard and palce them around the dnager zones.

[csxengineer98]

been their..done that... had a loco take a header off the layout at the club one night... lucky it only shook it up and bend the frame..i was able to fix it no problem...but i would put sheets between the right of way and the benchwork..and thumb tack them down good..that way if it wants to grow wings and try to fly agin.. its going to land in a safty net.... nothing worse then seeing one of your prized engins trying to impersonate an airplane...
csx engineer

[Leon Silverman]

On the last layout I built (HO), I had to be concerned wtih catzillas. I cut two inch wide strips of plexiglas which were supported by pairs of 3-inch wood screws that were placed strategically around the perimeter of the layout. The trains could be viewed through the plexiglass but a strip could be removed temporarily if you had to do something to the trackwork. Keep the head of the inner screw above train level so that the cars or locomotives don't scratch their paint. For the same reason, you might want to tape over any threads exposed at the bottom.

[challenger3802]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jlcjrbal

Well I decided to go with the WS risers and such. Began working on the Mainline and I was just having my Loco go around really slow to see if my efforts paid off. First time around was perfect second time I watched my 2-8-2 BLI fall off the side and under the bench..my heart just sank. all in all I just lost one of the spokes that held the handrail the went down the engine

Anyway I think I will purchase a tester Loco as I would hate to see anything else happen to the BLI.. Any suggestions????

Gaugemaster Controllers sell a loco tester with ammeter built in. Available from The Signal Box, Rochester, UK. Follow the link below, buying online is possible as well.
http://www.thesignalbox.co.uk/?initial_record=10&action=showall&cat=23&sid=qz18_wtg1493xhfnk2z^6e4

Ian