LOL my son called me & told me that the MTH 2-8-2 that i got him was running on the layout & suddenly it just jerked & died sooo he figured that he fried the decoder welll as he walked over he noticed
that the firebox was glowing hummmm OHHHH CRAP ITS ON FIRE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well the strange thing is after he put it out , it still runs on DCS & DC !!! mth tooo funny
Um, funny??, I'd say more like Dangerous! Our layouts generally cannot withstand a real heat source, let alone fire! Could you imagine an engine inside a tunnel and derailing? Lovely! By the time you fished it out, that mountain would look more like a volcano!
Karl
NCE über alles!
Been there, done that, got the shell to prove it.
I made some temporary repairs by applying modeling clay and paint. NYCT uses Bondo for this purpose, but I didn't need that.
This is a six car set, the middle two cars are brow with the silver roof. I have four brown cars with brown roofs and will replace the red bodies which will be repainted yellow for work trains.
BTW: The fire was cause by a track side resistor which over heated when the train derailed. The dead short drew five amps, but was far short of what my 15 amp regulated supply was putting on the tracks.LIONs use the 1/4W resistors to slow the trains as they enter the station. Him was told that the 1/4W resistors would be sufficient since the train would only be in that block for a matter of seconds.
Oh well, LION had been taking LEDs from Christmas light sets, and now him has a whole stack of 3A buses. Him plans to put them into the lines that feed these sections of track.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
well i talked to my son & hes putting on a shelf for now then he mite replace the decoder later
"DCS...Our stuff fires like the real thing!"
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL