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Remember that because of the war there were still a lot of '20's and '30's cars in use, even in the mid '40's. so you can load up on "older" cars for your layout scenes. One who was there, and still remembers! John
Question: One of my P2K GP7's recently developed an occasional clicking sound and I am wondering if this indicates a possible split gear or bad universal joint at one end drive tower? Most of the time it runs OK but this occasional thing has me perplexed. Has anyone else experienced this? John
Well, we have one lady in her middle sixties at our local train club who is not only a model railroader but has two differently focused layouts in construction: 1 an older N scale layout for the '50's with a loggling branch, and 2 a contemporary HO layout with city and industrial switching. But the funny part is how she got into the hobby! She was for many years modelling ornate circus wagons until someone gave her a train set, as a gift, so she would have a place to show off her collection
For information purposes here's what I do in HO: I lay out the centerline using the bent stick method for easements, then I lay the cork roadbed with caulking. I mark it out to the outer end of the ties and mark the two ends of the easement, ie: the tangent and full radius points. I then glue down a 3/32" square balsa or basswood strip along the inside of the end-of-tie line the full length of curve plus easements. Using the curve ends of the easements I lightly sand the strip to a taper
I find it interesting that some decoders have available "Auto-Notching" and some very few allow manual notching separate from the throttle setting so that one can creep up a serious grade around 10 miles an hour while the diesels are screaming in notch 7 or 8, as is often the case on the prototype, This ability is something to look for if you are into realistic operations. John
Also we must remember that "back in the day" the caboose had a crew, too. Thus there were horn signals to the Conductor, and for calling in the tail end Brakemen prior to moving the train. John
check in the manual or online for the settings for CV29 usually whatever the setting is adding 1 to it will reverse the direction of operation. John
Affirmative! The "number" of the turnout indicates the frog only. What decides the radius is the distance from the points to the frog. If you laid a #8L on a #8R turnout you would see why the frog angle becomes a #4 (because both sides are diverging) and the frog axis would be right on the incoming tangents' centerline. I hope this clarifies. John
I had great sucess using two 2" metal corner brackets from the local hardware store. They even came with screws! John
Jim, If it is not too impolite to answer a question with a question, may I submit the following for your consideration: Is there a possibility our neighbors to the North ever ran a CP or CN Hudson down to Seattle? Just a thought! May the winds be with you, and your seas be calm! John