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Mine was a TYCO F unit in Santa Fe War bonnet colors. It was a Christmas gift in 1963 (I was 6). It came in a set with a refer, a flat car (with concrete pipe load) a VIRGINIAN Hopper, and a 4-wheel caboose. I still have them all. Over the next few months, my dad built a layout with sectional brass track and one spur. The train went around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around
My thinking is that you have a hypersensitive circuit breaker. As electricity flows through these things they heat up a bi-metal trigger. The more current the more heat. When the trigger gets hot enough, it pulls away from the contact and thus opens the circuit (and it routes power to a light filament, so the light comes on). If the loco draws enough current, it will heat up the trigger and the circuit will break at about the same time, every time you operate. So... You could open the controler and
This is one of my favorite photos of my layout: It was taken from the back wall looking toward the front (I used a little tripod and the self timer.). Everything in the picture is from that "can't see" angle, For me, this one picture is good enough reason to finish everything all the way around.
[quote user="richg1998"] Right now Bachmann has three truck Shay for HO but they are known to have a cracked gear issue. Your mileage may differ. Search the Internet for shay cracked gear. [/quote] I don't have one of these, but I've noticed an advertiser in the NG&SLG is selling steel replacement gears (about $25, I think). That's an indicator that the cracked gear problem is a real issue, and that there is a solution. All of my shays are brass. On ebay they usually sell
I think this one looks darned good: http://cgi.ebay.com/GEM-St-P-P-ST-PAUL-PACIFIC-GN-WILLIAM-CROOKS-4-4-0_W0QQitemZ400079130516QQcmdZViewItemQQptZModel_RR_Trains?hash=item5d26930f94
Reading Model Railroader in the school library is how I got started in the hobby, 40 years ago.
I think the technology probably is already there. A few years ago there were some toy R/C cars that were about the size of HO slot cars, so receivers and electronic speed controls are already small enough to fit most HO locos. Batteries don't have to be large, because they could continuously recharge from the track (yes, that would require track to carry power, but it wouldn't have to be super clean because the battery would power the loco over dead spots). I met a friend of my father who
I like the way brass looks. Granted, today's plastic models are darned good, but there are still a few tip-offs that they are plastic. That's one reason I like brass. For me, they are also something I admired as a kid. I was in high-school and college in the '70s and I'd look at the brass models in the hobby shop display cases and admire the models in the PFM/United/Tenshodo/NWSL ads. I wanted them so bad I could taste it, but for me, $75 (the price at the time) for a brass shay was
I like old wood kits that I buy on eBay or at train shows: I like the look of real wood, and they are easy to modify (I usually cut them down to 36'). A LaBelle or Huff n Puff boxcar usually takes a couple of evenings and I think they look great.
I am not a subscriber any more, mostly because I find the content is too elementary for me and they focus too much on new products for my interests. I don't fault them for that; they are targeting the magazine where they get the best sales (magazine sales and advertising sales). Even so, there are two things that would bring me back: Editorials that closely resemble Linn Westcott's At The Throttle columns. That was the first page I read every month in the '70s and it would be worth the
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