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Get the engine just underway with CV2. Then speed match it to the same throttle setting as your fastest engine when doing what you feel is its maximum scale speed by adjusting CV5 (V-Max). CV5 may be the highest voltage setting number possible for the QSI, or it may be considerably less. If the range is 0-255, start with 200 and adjust in lots of 30 up or down until you are close, then go to lots of 10. -Crandell
Nice detailing in the wooden structure! I like the layout above, too...looks very natural as imaged. The backdrop is a nicely painted one. The Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway is beginning to receive their new order of covered hoppers. They are manufactured by the True Line Corp. -Crandell
I wonder if it is a spurious entry in the indexing. It might be smart to purge the memory and reprogramme it from scratch. I take it that there is no dirt or foreign matter in the drive mechanism or in the cogs in the circular rail inside the pit? I agree that a pit out of round could cause binds, but I thought Walthers had managed to eliminate that defect this time around. Their early non-indexed DC turntables were hit and miss. -Crandell
Heislers and Climax engines are also good back woods engines. However, they are getting scarce, and they are all light engines since they were small to begin with in the real world. You didn't really want a large, heavy, long-driver-based engine on droopy back woods light tracks where curves were tight. Tank engines of the 2-6-2T and 2-8-2T were widely used in parts. You could add weight to a tank engine model to make it quite heavy. Unfortunately, engines of that configuration are mostly in
Wow, you have done a lot of good work on that model...well done! It should be a stunning and strong performer when you are done. You may wish to take a look through this thread on another forum by someone who knows Pennsy engines and how they appeared to people viewing them: http://ogaugerr.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/57660482/m/956105581 -Crandell
And yet, it was a legitimate question. I don't weather the web of the rails on my layout that don't appear on camera angles or from the operating area. To me it is a mis-use of resources, time and paint, that could be used where they can be readily appreciated in view. Yet, again, it would be an incomplete model for me if I went to the trouble to pay for, and painstakingly erect, a model, especially an expensive craftsman type, and not do all I could so that it could be situated in any orientation
Thanks, Dale. I hope your lurking is a temporary remedy for what keeps you from being more active here, but even if we have to call on you this way from time-to-time and welcome you this way, it's cool with me. -Crandell
Fellas, the discussion is becoming circuitous and at the same time more political. Please do try to ask simple questions and avoid accusations. If the other(s) don't provide direct answers, or if they continually hedge and prevaricate, then the conversation should be over. Interested readers will have long since forumated an opinion or conclusions about the topic, so what's left is becoming stale and leaning towards being piqued and political. It has to stop. -Crandell
I guess it depends on the local/typical size of each product rendered by their respective 'plants'. In western British Columbia, the ballast is locally harvested from hillsides or pits, crushed locally, and trucked to where it is needed in ballast spreaders. I liberated a single piece from the facility at Wallachin (wall-a-SHEEN) feeling that the CPR was full of largess that day. I'm pretty sure, at least. Anyway, it measures just over two inches wide and about 1 3/8" wide, and about
If you can get a Heritage 2-10-2 2 without a traction tire and at a really good price, get it and apply Bull Frog Snot to one set of drivers. The Snot is marvellous stuff, durable, doesn't dry out like the traction tires, and a small $25 bottle of the stuff will last you many years and many applications. -Crandell
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