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Woots I need you help

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  • From: Maryville IL
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Woots I need you help
Posted by cudaken on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 2:10 AM

 I need your electical skill. Well you seen my bench so you know I needed your help but it is not my bench I want help with.

 I fixed my PCM Big Boy Tracking Problems, but head light and numbers boards don't work and smoke heater and fan is dead.

 I will have Bob from BLI fax me the wiring digram. Now that it pulls and track I don't want to waite 8 weeks for them to fix it!

 Call me at work, 618-463-0765.

 By the way how are you doing on the bench and can my BL2 make the turns?

                            Cuda Ken 

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  • From: Northeast OH
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Posted by jktrains on Tuesday, August 7, 2007 10:01 AM

Is this another locomotive that derails when going around a curve?  A BL2, do you mean the P2K diesel? 

I think I'm noticing some commonality here.

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Posted by cudaken on Thursday, August 16, 2007 1:11 AM

 Jktrains this is a BL2

 

 I have 4 of them in Monon colors. They are Proto 2000's and are the brown box ones.

 As far as derailing around a turn? Toots has 15" turns he will be running Small Lumber engines on his layout when he has engines. I let him use one of my BL2 to do a test run, it is the smallest engine I have.

                       Cuda Ken Not Derailing again!

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Posted by jktrains on Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:55 AM
I am well aware of what a BL2 is and its history.  Based on your posting history it didn't seem like an engine that fit your MO - no factory sound, not big steam, articulated or something that is likely to derail and needs to be tinkered with.  While 15" radius is VERY tight, I would think it could handle such a curve at slow speed.  Your friend needs to look into lumber engines like shays, xlimaxes and heislers which will easily handle such tight radii.
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Posted by cudaken on Thursday, August 16, 2007 6:51 PM

 Jktrains, I bought my first steam engine a round Nov last year. Bought my first Sound Engine BLI Class J 611 Dec 2006. Went DCC around Jan or Feb with T-stage old EZ. right now I only have 6 sound engines. Most of my rooster is smaller DC engines. A line is DC and B line is DCC.

 I understand why people here think I have problems all the time, but I really don't! You only hear me asking questions about problems. Big Boy is doing great, till I get my Y6b my Big Boy is the only large engine I have.

 Bottom line is if all I had was problems like about a year ago I would have never spent the coin on a Big Boy rather it be the ill faithed Athearns or the PCM Big Boy.

 I am doing way better than you think I am.

              Cuda Ken

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