TIME, the lack thereof!
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Track fiddlerYeah. Coming home every night waiting for my track and it's not there
Um, don't you have a tracking number for your track?
Nearly all shippers provide them these days. Hope it arrives today!
Cheers, Ed
What's driving me crazy is that my signaling system all of a sudden started showing wierd signals aspects (green over green, green over yellow). Founnd out it's actually an issue with my digitrax command station. Apparently I have somehow overload the buffer in it. It's also having a hard time consisting for some reason. Since its 22 years old now I'm not sure a trip back to digitrax is going to help. I was able setup a temporary stand alone loconet minus the command station and everything worked perfectly. Now I need to decide if I want to separate the block detection and signaling from the actual train control DCC and have two isolated loconet connections or upgrade to a new command station.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
Renegade1cSince its 22 years old now I'm not sure a trip back to digitrax is going to help.
Have you looked into firmware upgrades, Renegade? I was having trouble getting my Duplex throttles and UR92s to play nice then I sat down and went through the firmware upgrade procedure one night and that solved a whole lot of problems.
http://www.digitrax.com/downloads/
or
https://www.dccguy.com/?p=4398
I don't know if this will help you with your exact problem but it might be worth looking into.
Good Luck, Ed
Not real nuts, but enough to get me going on it. A caboose shortage. The track is all in and working, I've been enjoying running trains. There is room for 6 trains in staging. Only 3 cabeese on the layout, and 4 box shaker kits in storage. So today, (Wed) I got 'em out, glazed the windows, put Kadees and metal wheels on them and got 'em on the rails.
Dr Wayne: Those Korber Roundhouses leave a lot to be desired, don't they? I framed mine up with tight grained wood cut on a table saw. Expanded to 6 stalls, it's not complete, but is in use on the layout. My roof is removable in 2 sections; the front section and the larger rear section. Dan
Silverliner266 steemtrayn We can have this...WHY???? This drives me crazy, one of the brass manufactureres even went as far as to make one of these in N scale but no one has ever done a Reading T-1. I would pay good money for that just to have a Ramble on my layout.
steemtrayn We can have this...WHY????
We can have this...WHY????
This drives me crazy, one of the brass manufactureres even went as far as to make one of these in N scale but no one has ever done a Reading T-1. I would pay good money for that just to have a Ramble on my layout.
You'll probably gey your T1 before I get my BP20.
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Last basement progress photo's was from about a month ago, here are current:
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Trying to find good running D&H locomotives for less than $60!?
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
My YouTube
HarrisonTrying to find good running D&H locomotives for less than $60!?
There are a couple on Ebay right now, Athearn, Atlas.
Mike.
My You Tube
For trains or in general? If trains, getting each piece of track wired with feeders. I hate wiring! At least I have a process for doing it that makes sense to me.
mbinsewi Harrison Trying to find good running D&H locomotives for less than $60!? There are a couple on Ebay right now, Athearn, Atlas. Mike.
Harrison Trying to find good running D&H locomotives for less than $60!?
Did I mention that I am looking for 4-axle, 1970's and 80's locos?
Did I mention that I am looking for 4-axle, 1970's and 80's locos? Maybe I am to picky.
Harrison Did I mention that I am looking for 4-axle, 1970's and 80's locos? Maybe I am to picky.
Should be plenty of 4-axle loco's for that time frame on Ebay. A few examples that come to mind:
Atlas GP38 GP40
Proto 2000 GP7/GP9/GP30/GP38
Athearn blue box and RTR GP35, GP40-2
Athearn Genesis GP40-2, GP9
I'm not up on GE loco's but some can offer makers of 4-axle versons of them.
I just looked again,
1- Athearn PA, which I guess is too "old" I think they 40's and 50's
1- Bachmann GP38-2 with DCC, I have a couple of these, they run great for the money.
1- Athearn SD45, also good runners, and good DCC conversion candidates.
All painted and lettered for the D & H, and all under $60.
SeeYou190What is eating at you right now?
Gilbert Grape
Not knowing what I don't know. At least when I find out what I don't know it is easily fixed.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
steemtrayn We can have this... this... and this... but we can't have this... WHY????
We can have this...
this...
and this...
but we can't have this...
WHY????
rrebell steemtrayn We can have this... this... a but we can't have this... You aren't going to like this but just saw one a week or so ago. Looked at it because I admired the work but didn't need it
steemtrayn We can have this... this... a but we can't have this...
a
You aren't going to like this but just saw one a week or so ago. Looked at it because I admired the work but didn't need it
Brass, right? I have an A-B-A set, factory painted from Oriental, but I'm waiting for someone to mass produce them in plastic. The excuses I get don't make sense to me, when those other limited interest units are being made. (Which, by the way, is a good thing.)
Too bad Canadian National never owned a Baldwin RF-16, because Rapido would have already made us a beautiful model.
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STRATTON AND GILLETTE management desperately want an A/B set of these locomotives, so I hope if they ever do get made, an undecorated DC set is an option.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190Too bad Canadian National never owned a Baldwin RF-16, because Rapido would have already made us a beautiful model....
You're probably right about that, Kevin.
How bad were the ones from Model Power? I had several of their FA/FB units, and while they weren't as accurate as later offerings (especially those from Rapido), they didn't look all that bad to me. They were also excellent runners, with a huge can motor that could handle a lot of extra weight, making them excellent pullers.
I still have four of these, all-powered, despite no longer modelling the diesel era, and another 4 or 5, also all powered, in various factory paint schemes and undecorated, too, stored in boxes...
I modified these two into an FPA-4/FPB-4 set, and regret selling them, even though I have no use for them....
If the contours of the nose weren't correct or the shape of the windshield was wrong, it never bothered me. They were great runners and fantastic pullers, too. The Model Power Sharks used the same drivetrain and motor, and some of my FAs, if I recall correctly, had the same underframe as was used in the Sharks, narrowed at the front end.
With some wire grabs and a few other details, I'd guess that you could come up with a decent representation...better, in my opinion, than not having one at all.
I changed the body panels to better match the real FPA-FPB-4s, along with the fuel tanks...
Wayne
Lack of time, lack of money, lack of vision. I have a room 11 x 23 and have it drawn out on paper in a 2 foot grid. Thinking of only using 11 x 15 as layout space. The more I read, the worse I get. Now I am thinking double deck with a helix.
Maybe I ought to just start something and go with the flow.
Robert H. Shilling II
Lack of spell check in what should be quality forums.
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
What drives me crazy ?????
Trying to find Jordan vehicles, now that Jordan no longer exists.
Rust...... It's a good thing !
Yes..... trying to get my layout off the dining room glass table into its permanent position so my wife can breathe a little again. I have to work Saturday but I'll start on it Saturday Night
Trying to remove 40+ year old paint from an old dummy FA2 (Model Power/Roco, I think) that is being converted to a camera car for my club. The previous owner gifted me with boxes of old HO equipment. This particular piece was custom painted in New Haven colors, but will be repainted in club colors...if I can get the old paint off!
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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The CF-7...a waste of a perfectly good F-unit!
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the
end of your tunnel, Was just a freight train coming
your way. -Metallica, No Leaf Clover
Arjay1969 This particular piece was custom painted in New Haven colors, but will be repainted in club colors...if I can get the old paint off!
After hearing good things about Superclean I have tried it:
https://superclean.com/products/
Works perfectly for me, both on brass or plastic for paint removal. When I'm done, I strain it and keep the used stuff, in a separate bottle, for next time, replenishing with new as needed.
Try it, you'll like it.
I use the Super Clean, I get it in the gallon jug, but, one thing that drove me crazy, some factory paint on Athearn locos refused to budge. Took a few days!
On some, the paint fell of in big pieces, go figure!
I'm going to try the Dr.Wayne suggestion of methyl hydrate. Local hardware store doesn't have it.
mbinsewiI'm going to try the Dr.Wayne suggestion of methyl hydrate. Local hardware store doesn't have it.
You guys have gas line antifreeze in Wisconsin? That used to be 90 to 100% Methanol. Same = same.
https://www.splashwash.com/products/antifreeze/gas-line-methanol
https://www.splashwash.com/application/files/8615/4820/2948/SPLASH_Gas_Line_Antifreeze_All_Sizes_11-30-18_1.pdf
Try a little and see if it works on your paint.
This stuff is mostly (75%) methanol, too:
https://www.rei.com/product/837419/crown-fuel-alcohol-stove-fuel
So, methyl hydrate and methanol are the same?
mike.
EDIT: I just looked it up. OK, Dah!
A case of the modeling doldrums aggravated by adjusting to a new blood pressure med. In the meantime seeing the facinating work being accomplished by the modelers on this forum is a big help in brewing up some wind to again fill my sails.
Thanks and regards, Peter