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General Discussion => Weathering, Detailing, and Scratchbuilding => Topic started by: ednadolski on September 05, 2019, 06:43:10 PM
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What will they weather next?
(https://www.iascaled.com/auction/Auction3.png)
Ed
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Well, a lot of the guys whom I run trains with look kind of "weathered", but I think it's natural, not modeled. :P
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Isn't those kind of throttles on the pircey side? :scared:
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Isn't those kind of throttles on the pircey side? :scared:
You bet. The green one cost $1225 and the black one $1084.
https://www.iascaled.com/auction/ (https://www.iascaled.com/auction/)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/383076137421 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/383076137421)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/383076144258 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/383076144258)
Jason
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You bet. The green one cost $1225 and the black one $1084.
https://www.iascaled.com/auction/ (https://www.iascaled.com/auction/)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/383076137421 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/383076137421)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/383076144258 (https://www.ebay.com/itm/383076144258)
Jason
Those prices were for a charity auction. Go to Iowa Scaled Engineering website for real pricing, but still a chunk of change.
Tom
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Those prices were for a charity auction.
Yes, the one I linked to. :)
Jason
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It is a big chunk of change, so I've been on the fence about it.
Looking forward to operating on a layout tomorrow that has gone 100% Proto-throttle.
-Dave
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Looking forward to operating on a layout tomorrow that has gone 100% Proto-throttle.
8), please be sure to post a report/review for us!
Ed
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The throttles themselves are about half that.
I saw a thing on ISE's site about spare faces.
But I've got to say: I really love this. One of these things will be top of my list when I get a layout up again.
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Isn't those kind of throttles on the pircey side? :scared:
Yes, but I love my ProtoThrottle. The only way I could make the experience better would be to add a second ProtoThrottle, so I could run two locomotives or consists without having to switch back and forth on one throttle. But, because they are pricey, that will have to wait.
DFF
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Yes, but I love my ProtoThrottle. The only way I could make the experience better would be to add a second ProtoThrottle, so I could run two locomotives or consists without having to switch back and forth on one throttle. But, because they are pricey, that will have to wait.
DFF
Now the wife knows what to get you for Christmas. Ka-Ching. 😊
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Now the wife knows what to get you for Christmas. Ka-Ching. 😊
Genius!
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Now if they would just come up with one for steam locos. But, with an automatic stoker, please - I don't want any coal shoveling in the train room. :trollface:
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Now if they would just come up with one for steam locos. But, with an automatic stoker, please - I don't want any coal shoveling in the train room. :trollface:
Yeah, but I could dig the brass levers and a steam pressure gauge. Pulling a string for the whistle too.
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These things always crack me up.... is it for a train or a 747?
http://raildriver.com/assets/images/raildriver/rd.desktop.home.jpg
Ed
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These things always crack me up.... is it for a train or a 747?
http://raildriver.com/assets/images/raildriver/rd.desktop.home.jpg
Ed
You know, I think that will really appeal more to the video game players than to the model railroaders.
A person with a throttle like that could just watch a video screen showing a real or animated view of going down the track, and never have a small scale physical model. Instead of laying track and building rolling stock and trackside structures and scenery, a person could just make their own animations of scenes that interest them. There is a guy over on the B&O forum doing just that, animating the journey of the Capitol Limited behind a particular steam locomotive on the route between Brunswick and Harpers Ferry. That is a lot of work, now, but could become easier in the future as more infrastructure for such animation is made available to the hobbyists.
But, that would really be a different world than the folksy model building and operating session guys here. That type of "modeller" could just sit in a dark room and never seen anybody except for their images on their big screens when they put them there from Skype or video phone calls.
Not my style!
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These things always crack me up.... is it for a train or a 747?
http://raildriver.com/assets/images/raildriver/rd.desktop.home.jpg
Ed
Seems fairly inline for some of the newer (ish) Passenger locomotives.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bombardier_ALP-45DP_Cab_Shot_Innotrans_2010.jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bombardier_ALP-45DP_Cab_Shot_Innotrans_2010.jpg)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IV4IIp41wpY/T4M9TqfagPI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/bG2of1dklYo/s1600/DSC01862.JPG (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IV4IIp41wpY/T4M9TqfagPI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/bG2of1dklYo/s1600/DSC01862.JPG)
At least the portion without the function keys.