I'm sure after 12 installs you will have it down to under an hour per! The good news is the DCC board is making contact with the frame. There is...
For the GP30 chassis, under the plastic cover there is a bit of a ledge for the fuel tank. Half of that would probably need to be milled down for...
The GP30 fuel tank is a plastic cover over a Zamak core from the frame. If you brighten the photo Matt posted, you can see the tabs at the front...
I believe this is a know issue that many people have with that AZL light board/DCC design, and one of the reason they are moving away from it with...
A bit of an update. My first conversion using the 7mm motor and Don Fedjur wheel wipers worked quite well. The only issue with the 7mm motor was...
Steve, The motors came from tramfabriek. https://tramfabriek.nl/motors.html#!/~/ I first ordered a set of the 7mm motor. The conversion went...
I mostly use white glue. Almost all of my buildings are placed either on foamboard or a a wood base square with the table to keep everything...
My measurements were collected with a digital caliper. I held the locomotive to a straight section of Rokuhan roadbed track to keep the trucks...
It seems I have some errors, in what I said earlier. 36 should be 34 feet. Beyond that, F7s are shorter than FP7s. GP35s are shorter than...
Much of my free time got sucked into Minecraft this winter. There is a mod for the game called "Create: Rails and Steam" That allows you to build...
The F40PHs have a 33 foot distance between the centers of the trucks, similar to the F59(35') and GP38(34'). The GP35, and similar GP30 had a 32...
For the Chassis I would consider either a AZL F59PHI, or an AZL GP38-2. The F59PHI chassis doesn't have couplers attached, the model has body...
No make the meter high bridge! I think your calculations are off. Height of 69’ 2” = 830 inches. Divide by 220 = 3.77 inches. 1 inch = 25.4 mm....
I remember long ago, there was a guy on the old Atlas forum that would buy N scale locomotives, and run them continuously until they died, and...
I have not seen anyone modify the 0-6-0/2-6-2 chassis to Nn3. The drivers have a round bushing, and the frame has thin walls where these bushing...
I have a question regarding this Z scale shay. The parts on Shapeways don't entirely appear to be the ones used for the assembled z scale shays...
Yikes. I guess I better get my 44 tonners built. Sad to see TheZMaker go as your designs were elegant, and you filled an underserved niche....
Looking good so far. I really like the long mainline, bench work, and the scenery you have completed so far. I'm not sure why you are having...
I was playing around with a different version of a cheap power regulator off amazon that was similarly listed. The issue I had with it is that...
I upgraded one of my F7s to the tjdreams / Tramfabriek 7mm motor upgrade and the Don Fedjur wheel wipers. The combo makes for a very nice running...