Well... I have mine tracking properly and looking good, but now I have other issues. While giving the little guy a chance to run for an hour or...
I had a chance yesterday to run mine at length and the results aren't pretty. The pilot wheels on my sample have just enough pressure on them to...
John, those wood loads look great. Nice work on those locomotives in general. My L&N steam locomotives book has several pictures of 4-4-0 wood...
Ok, so I have mine apart. First, a quick rundown on disassembly. Remove the wheelsets from the trucks. Remove the four screws on the bottom...
Mine showed up today. It has the same problem that brokemoto mentioned. The pilot wheels are lifting the front driver just enough to stall the...
I ordered an undecorated from my favorite retailer this morning. They appeared yesterday, and I spent a day questioning if I wanted one. In the...
The diode in question is not a unidirectional diode (with a band), but a bidirectional diode. More specifically it is a transient voltage...
That would probably be why no one suggested it!
I haven't seen anyone else suggest this, but I'll bet you have tried. Have you hooked the system up to a separate bit of track away from your...
I am betting that the power panel circuit board is flexing and breaking a circuit when installed. That might explain why it works for NCE. I...
Maybe a reset on the decoder would fix it up, but if you don't run dcc, I'm guessing you have no way to perform said reset. Maybe the universal...
I would pretty much agree with the wiki. My understanding was that advances in computers/ micro processors, were the key to using ac. I know...
[img] Sometimes, just for a moment, you can go back in time.
The end railings loock like alco, the cab more like ge. I can't place it. Could be a rebuild or export, but I can't find an exact match. I'm...
My girlfriend and I just laughed our butts off! The part where they "review" and have the image of Tootle from the Little Golden Books in the...
Here's a few I snapped this weekend. I don't get out much during the winter time, but I'll brave it for some snow. [img] [img] [img]
Thanks for the kind words and info, everyone. I do not have a website w/ the photos posted, but am looking into the possibility. I appreciate...
[img] Altoona is a great trainwatching spot. There are two pedestrian bridges between the museum and downtown. [img] I was rained on both...
A few more. These are a few of my favorites. I think I took about 500 pictures, if not more, but for everyone's sake I won't post them all!...
