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Sheldon, Both the BAR and the New Haven had State of Maine cars as both were ordered at the same time. The NH saved a few bucks per car by using the same paint scheme. These were insulated and heated cars (with charcoal heaters) to keep potatoes from freezing during shipment. The NH cars were made after the BAR order, and there's a pic of a NH State of Maine car dated July, 1953. The NH's more colorful era of orange and black boxcars started in 1955 with Pres. Patrick B. McGinnis arrival
Oh, and I should have mentioned that each road varied for "transition" depending on the condidtion of their steam fleet and their finances. The NH was an early diesel road because their steam fleet was, for the most part a WWI-era roster, was all worn out by the 1940's (and especially after WWII). The NH's first diesel engine arrived in 1931 (a High Hood-type Alco). Their 2nd diesel arrived in 1936 when 10 GE switchers were ordered. By the time WWII started, the NH had some 58 diesels
CNJ, I also concur about the running quality of a good brass steamer. They can be superb, and can be made to be so if they aren't. My W&R NH Y-3 USRA 0-8-0 is so smooth it looks like it's running on glass...and it's well over 10 years old. It's a better puller and a better runner than any P2K USRA 0-8-0...and it looks much better, besides (well, it's "NH USRA" and not generic USRA). As to the collector vs. runner... I've been around the hobby for almost 20 years
When I was working in a shipping area, we called those "cubes" on pallets "Tri-walls" because they have three layers/walls of corrigated cardboard. We only had the ones that had the seperate lids. We filled them with loose parts and other things that we could fit. Throw in some padding, and then strap the lid down with two metal straps going through the pallet. Making them was fun... We had a large air powered staple gun with some nasty looking staples. You could just reach the
Vermont&Maine, CD's are not obsolete. And even if they were, they came out 27 years ago in 1982. That's hardly "quick", especially in electronics and home consumer goods. The only way DCC is like CD's is that both are widespread standards that are not going anywhere for a while. Sure, CD's and CD players may go away in the next 10 years, but the data is still good. I can rip the music from any band's CD and put that in my latest tech toy as they are compatible. Likewise
Pete, About the UP mess: UP had a change of CEO's, and the new one wasn't as dedicated to the issue as the old one was. Also, from what I hear, MTH's lawyers 1st order of business was to ask for all memos and paperwork that UP had on the licensing issue. This resulted in many hours of billable time, which only further weakened UP's resolve on the issue. Since this seemed destined to take some serious time and effort to deal with MTH's lawyers and since it was bad PR to boot, UP
Dave, Well, if you're going to be "that guy...", then I'm going to be "that other guy..." and correct the correction! The Boston & Albany Railroad was just as much a New England institution as any other railroad. It could trace it's roots to 1831 as the Boston & Worcester RR. The Western Railroad was completed in 1841 to Albany from Worcester, and could probably be called the New World's first mountain railroad. Merged by 1870, the Boston & Albany was
Sheldon, I was born in 1975, and my folks had 33's and 45's. I used to listen to them as a kid, specifically the comedy albums from Bill Cosby ("Why Is There Air?"), sound effect records, and lots of music during the X-Mas season. My folk's old turntable could stack something like 10 discs on the spindle, and would automatically play each, one right after the other. After it died, they got a system 2nd hand that plays CD's, cassettes, and has a turntable. To this day, each
Sheldon, I have 1 GP9 and 6 FA/FB's from P2K. They all had cracked gears. At my club, there are many, many more that have needed to be replaced. Any P2K with the Athearn clone drive is suspect. The P2K PA-1's & P1K DL109's that I own have never had the cracked gear problem due to their non-Athearn drive components (and not that it's an Athearn problem...P2K cloned it wrong). My Athearn-clone P2K's run, but they don't run great, not like Atlas and Kato. The PA's and
I echo the call for using a DCC sound decoder in a stationary mount hooked up to a nice, quality speaker of good size. The nice thing about this is that you could have one sound decoder mounted under the layout programmed to a certain address, like "1234". To get the sound to match your soundless loco, M.U. the soundless loco (say, address "0780") to the sound decoder's address of "1234" with your throttle. Now when you run the loco, the steam sounds match the performance
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