richhotrain ... So, I need to start over, and I have several questions: 1. Which is better, DC or DCC? 2. Who makes the best steam engine? 3. Should my track work be continuous loop or point-to-point? 4. Why did they paint steam engines black? I need answers and I need them now. Rich
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So, I need to start over, and I have several questions:
1. Which is better, DC or DCC?
2. Who makes the best steam engine?
3. Should my track work be continuous loop or point-to-point?
4. Why did they paint steam engines black?
I need answers and I need them now.
Rich
1. Neither one. Use AC with sequence reverse.
2. Lobaugh
3. Point to loop is best.
4. The red was used up on cabooses.
Paul
MisterBeasley I'm going to consist an AC4400 with a Big Boy, and the rivet-counters be damned!
I'm going to consist an AC4400 with a Big Boy, and the rivet-counters be damned!
If you want, we can put a GE Cab on a Cab Forward & really Sci Fi it out!
"JaBear" So, I need to start over, and I have several questions: 1. Which is better, DC or DCC? 2. Who makes the best steam engine? 3. Should my track work be continuous loop or point-to-point? 4. Why did they paint steam engines black? I need answers and I need them now. Rich
1: Do both (in a section), with a switch so you can enjoy all your New & Old products!
2: Iron Horse Models for Precision Scale Co. (At least in HOn3 Shays)
3: Yes, all that
4: All the Red got used up on Barns, the White on Houses, plus Black (then) covers rust better than any color.
More questions Please!Yes I am being facetious, but we enjoy that..
richhotrain I cannot believe this. December 21, 2012 came and went, and we are all still here. What went wrong? I had sold off my layout and donated the proceeds to the Mayan Relief Fund. Well, at least I think I did. Yesterday, two little Russian ladies in babushkas approached me in the grocery store parking lot and said that they were acting as couriers to take cash to the Mayans so I entrusted all of my money to them. So, I need to start over, and I have several questions: 1. Which is better, DC or DCC? 2. Who makes the best steam engine? 3. Should my track work be continuous loop or point-to-point? 4. Why did they paint steam engines black? I need answers and I need them now. Rich
I cannot believe this.
December 21, 2012 came and went, and we are all still here.
What went wrong?
I had sold off my layout and donated the proceeds to the Mayan Relief Fund.
Well, at least I think I did.
Yesterday, two little Russian ladies in babushkas approached me in the grocery store parking lot and said that they were acting as couriers to take cash to the Mayans so I entrusted all of my money to them.
Gidday Rich, maybe this may help..............
http://www.marklin.com/start/ho.html
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Alton Junction
phew I was on pins and needles for a while. It must have been those guys in the Jello commercials who went and sacrificed pudding on the Myan temple who saved us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItjE3f3clQQ
UPinCT I'm not clear on the Myan end of the World. Are we safe by now or does the world end at 12 midnight?
I'm not clear on the Myan end of the World. Are we safe by now or does the world end at 12 midnight?
12 midnight is technically December 22, 2012, so we lived through it.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Welcome to the new world, glad you all made it!!
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
http://gearedsteam.blogspot.com/
I thought I had it figured out - there are no Mayans in the Alfred E. Neumann universe.
Then I checked, and discovered that the Neil Armstrong universe (aka reality) is still here.
So the odometer rolled over. Can we put the Mayans out of our minds for the next 300+ (or 5000+) years?
Chuck [Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - today (12/21/12) and for the foreseeable future]
Motley According to "Doc", we have entered an alternate time divergant. Our earth has in fact, been destroyed. But we are now in another world and the date is: Nov. 5th 1955.
According to "Doc", we have entered an alternate time divergant.
Our earth has in fact, been destroyed.
But we are now in another world and the date is: Nov. 5th 1955.
Yesssssss! And this time around, I am NOT going to sell my huge collection of Lionels. Or the original boxes.
Instead, I will finance my HO layout by betting on the Jets to win the Superbowl in 1969.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Motley andrechapelon Motley According to "Doc", we have entered an alternate time divergant. Our earth has in fact, been destroyed. But we are now in another world and the date is: Nov. 5th 1955. Oh goody. Now I can go up to San Jose and watch steam powered commute trains. Or down to Bakersfiield to watch the San Joaquin Daylight swap GS-4's for F7's (or the other way around depending on the time). The Friant Branch is still using 2-6-0's. Not only that, but gas is now 29 cents per gallon!!!!!!!!!!
andrechapelon Motley According to "Doc", we have entered an alternate time divergant. Our earth has in fact, been destroyed. But we are now in another world and the date is: Nov. 5th 1955. Oh goody. Now I can go up to San Jose and watch steam powered commute trains. Or down to Bakersfiield to watch the San Joaquin Daylight swap GS-4's for F7's (or the other way around depending on the time). The Friant Branch is still using 2-6-0's.
Not only that, but gas is now 29 cents per gallon!!!!!!!!!!
....and the dollar is much more valuable and we are still on the gold standard.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Karl, that is probably the best point that anyone can come up with!
I'm still alive. No real big events.
MisterBeasley It is now obvious that the Mayans preferred continuous running over point-to-point.
It is now obvious that the Mayans preferred continuous running over point-to-point.
I woke up this morning and looked out the window. The world was gone. There was nothing outside but blinding white light...
Then, I woke up a bit more and realized that I'm at a ski area, and it's snowing.
Still here. Everything's is just....wait. Hold on, what's that?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
richhotrain NP2626 My working for a living- life is ending today. I walk out the door here today and that will be it, I have retired! Maybe the Maya knew this was happening and that's what the Mayan Calendar was all about! How nice of them! Happy Retirement and welcome to the club! What's the plan beyond today? Rich
NP2626 My working for a living- life is ending today. I walk out the door here today and that will be it, I have retired! Maybe the Maya knew this was happening and that's what the Mayan Calendar was all about! How nice of them!
My working for a living- life is ending today. I walk out the door here today and that will be it, I have retired! Maybe the Maya knew this was happening and that's what the Mayan Calendar was all about! How nice of them!
Happy Retirement and welcome to the club!
What's the plan beyond today?
No big plans, going to a beer joint to have a few with working buds, tonight, then get intensly into the hobby over the winter. Taking a tour of Austria, next spring with side trips to Venice and Budapest.
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
Yes, Happy Retirement. It's a great life!
There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....
It's gone, it's all gone. We are gone we just don't know it.
Impending doom is here!!!!!!!!
Well.....I am still here - now I have to go out and shovel snow. Didn't get gas for the snow blower because I didn't think I would be needing it......
There are still people moving around. They must be zombies.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Good morning, fellow modelers.
Well, this is it. According to the countdown timer, there are just over 35 minutes to the end.
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?day=21&month=12&year=2012&hour=11&min=11&sec=11&p0=0
I ran my trains last night for the last time. The Woodland Scenics Realistic Water pour still has not completely cleared. Now, it never will.
Nice knowing ya !