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Model Railroad Miscellany: May 2016
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016. European models aren't the main focus of my layout, but I do have some. There was a thread about modeling European prototype. On the Model Railroader forum recently, but it didn't get a whole lot of replies, and there was a tendency to equate European models with Märklin. I have some code 83 rack that's meant for both US and European equipment, mostly giving US equipment "trackage rights" in "Europe" to reach spurs and staging. Monday, May 23, 2016. Sunday, May 15, 2016. They appea...
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Model Railroad Miscellany: December 2016
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016. Finally a few months ago I got the confidence to rewire this section of the layout. I can't quite give a schedule for completion, because each time I think I'm getting close, I find something else I have to fix, but things are moving along. This video shows the result of some new track and complete replacement of wiring at CP CONN. I think this will pay off down the road. Tuesday, December 20, 2016. Bachmann E7 Is Out. Looking at photos, though, I see that Burlington, Southern...
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Model Railroad Miscellany: Four Cars For $9
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016. Four Cars For $9. I'm a sucker for the vintage cars you can often find very cheaply at swap meets. Last Saturday at the Simi Valley swap, a seller had a couple boxes of vintage cars selling for $3 each or four for $9. I bit. AHM stock car from the 1960s or so. Needs the same work as the Life-Like car. I hesitated over this last one. It looked vaguely like a Walthers, but not quite, and the paint has got to go - but for less than $3, I decided to give it a try. Ive emailed you ...
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Model Railroad Miscellany: January 2017
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017. Bachmann E7 - III. I found this YouTube video that shows a sound-equipped loco that does control the warning light separately from the headlight:. Here is the chassis for my E7 with a Digitrax DH166 installed and the violet wire from the decoder going to the numberboards. The blue shrink wrap covers a 560 ohm resistor in series with the numberboard LEDs. Here are the numberboards lit, along with the headlights:. Here they are turned off separately via F2:. Bachmann E7 - II.
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Model Railroad Miscellany: Bachmann PC GP40
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017. About the best thing I could find that fit my budget in the runup to the holidays was a sale-priced Bachmann PC-lettered GP40 listed as a "warehouse find no restock expected". Over 40 years, Bachmann has improved to the point that it's reasonably priced with acceptable detail and operation, but it's not top of the line. I wound up taking a full day to hardwire a new decoder in this GP40:. Here's the unit with the shell back on:. I'm not pleased with the light effect. It's ...
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Model Railroad Miscellany: September 2016
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Thursday, September 29, 2016. Progress On The T-trak Modules. I painted the front fascia of the lengthwise modules rattle-can black and added the NCE PowerCab interface to the primary one:. The lengthwise module that goes opposite this one, at least in the current scheme of things, is a Masterpiece Modules double wide depressed deck. This was taken on Cicero Avenue near the Irving Park station on the Milwaukee Northwest District.) I will build up the fill with foam and add an overpass similar to the ...
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Model Railroad Miscellany: Rewiring, Whew!
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016. The rewiring project is well under way:. There are several subtasks in this phase. One is to remove one DC cab circuit entirely, and replace the other, which had been 22 AWG color coded green and yellow, with 14 AWG DCC cab bus color coded red and black. This will include removing all block toggles from the control panels. Neither the block toggles nor the switch toggles will remain when things are finished, though this will take some time. The second advantage will be to ...
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Model Railroad Miscellany: T-Track 1.0
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016. I've completed tracklaying and electrical/DCC work on the first four T-Track modules in this project. Some debugging remains to be done, but at this point, operations are reliable, and I'm starting scenery work. Here's a video of the current status:. The section of scenery-in-progress shown on my video is inspired by the Empire Connection, Amtrak's route on the west side of Manhattan. Here's a video (not mine) that will give an idea of what I'm aiming at:. Bachmann E7 Is Out.
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Model Railroad Miscellany: July 2016
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Friday, July 29, 2016. Eye Candy - II. I painted the Rusty Rail shay casting and put it where it will eventually go, although it will get more vegetation and maybe more parts and stuff around it:. Next to it is a Bachmann Moore-Keppel Climax:. This loco has been restored and currently operates in Durbin, WV:. Tuesday, July 12, 2016. One of the modelers who inspires me is John Allen, and it's worth pointing out that Allen wasn't especially keen on maintaining era or location consistency on his G&D. It tur...
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Model Railroad Miscellany: November 2016
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016. The rewiring project is well under way:. There are several subtasks in this phase. One is to remove one DC cab circuit entirely, and replace the other, which had been 22 AWG color coded green and yellow, with 14 AWG DCC cab bus color coded red and black. This will include removing all block toggles from the control panels. Neither the block toggles nor the switch toggles will remain when things are finished, though this will take some time. The second advantage will be to ...
