Weekend Update 4/18/2010

[up1950s]

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[Philip H]

Smoke 'em if you got 'em - fresh salmon fillets that is . . .

Speaking of smoking, my hobby plans this weekend were interrupted when my Jetta died in Breezewood, PA last night about 8PM. Had just started up I-70 from the town, and she lost power, stopped accelerating, and literally died about 1000 yards into the interstate.  Got her towed to a local shop, and I'll be heading back up tomorrow to get her. Wife drove up and got us - she earned huge brownie point for that one!

I am consoling myself today by finishing Bernie's steel mill book, and starting Tom's weathering extravaganza.

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[delamaize]

Picked up this from Mark, (not trying to rub it in mark) after it took a dive on to his shop floor. been tinkering with it all week, and finally got it running good this afternoon (in germany). it had a lot of underlying problems, the front set of cylinders completely broke loose from the chassis, the pilot was broken loose, part of the valve gear hanger was broken off at the cylinders, something shifted inside, and was binging the motor, tender pick up tabs on the board were deformed upwards, front drive rods had a small bend to it on the left side, throwing it slightly out of quater. needless to say, Mark was right it was a mess. [:-bigeyes] I still need to go back and paint over the superglue marks, and paint some places I filed to make room for renforcements.



it isn't perfect, but it is running, and looks pretty good, I see the mistakes, but I don't think others will. Going to foobie it into Northern Pacific. Anyone have a Bachman Long tender WITH DCC they want to trade for this vandy?

Also it seems to run "tight" still, takes half throttle to get it moving, then I can back it off to 1/3. and it makes a humming sound at low voltages, I am running Digitrax prodigy DCC. it has about 6 continous hours on it right now. any ideas? or is this normal for this loco?

Also what is the program that people have been using to make those close in shots that are in focus thoughout the whole field?

[MichaelWinicki]

Smoke 'em if you got 'em - fresh salmon fillets that is . . .

Speaking of smoking, my hobby plans this weekend were interrupted when my Jetta died in Breezewood, PA last night about 8PM. Had just started up I-70 from the town, and she lost power, stopped accelerating, and literally died about 1000 yards into the interstate.  Got her towed to a local shop, and I'll be heading back up tomorrow to get her. Wife drove up and got us - she earned huge brownie point for that one!

I am consoling myself today by finishing Bernie's steel mill book, and starting Tom's weathering extravaganza.

Ah Breezewood... Pass through there all the time on the way to Washington DC & such.

It's such a screwed up situation when you're heading south off of 76 and then you have to get in the left-hand lane to make that left-hand turn onto 70 south... Kind of a traffic mess there.

[SkipGear]

Anyone have a Bachman Long tender WITH DCC they want to trade for this vandy?

Also it seems to run "tight" still, takes half throttle to get it moving, then I can back it off to 1/3. and it makes a humming sound at low voltages, I am running Digitrax prodigy DCC. it has about 6 continous hours on it right now. any ideas? or is this normal for this loco?

Which long tender do you want??? I'm up for a trade.

As far as stiff.....I have run 3 of these so far, one needed a little more break in than the others but all will start and crawl at around speed step 2-3 on a DT400. One has about 24 hours or more on it now and runs very smooth. With a little weight added, it pulls 30+  cars with no trouble. Before the weight, all of them I tested would max out at 28 cars. I was pretty impressed with the consistancy between loco's.

[delamaize]

Anyone have a Bachman Long tender WITH DCC they want to trade for this vandy?

Also it seems to run "tight" still, takes half throttle to get it moving, then I can back it off to 1/3. and it makes a humming sound at low voltages, I am running Digitrax prodigy DCC. it has about 6 continous hours on it right now. any ideas? or is this normal for this loco?

Which long tender do you want??? I'm up for a trade.

witch ones do you have? I'm looking for something that has the decoder still in it, and looks NP-ish.

[SkipGear]

Mike,
 Take your pick, I have a few of each, a long Vanderbuilt or long USRA. The Vanderbuilt has a factory decoder in it already or I could pull it out and put it in the USRA if you want.

Tony

[Craig Martyn]

Did a little rail fanning in Cajon Pass...

Photos taken on Ron Sipkovich's N Scale Cajon Pass layout.

[eric220]

I found a little time this week to get my UH-1 lettered and numbered.  Let my mutilation of history continue!

[Chris333]

I took a short nail biting video:

/>Maybe in another year I will do a little more...

[Zox]

I thought I would have some train-cam video from BANTrak's layout at the Mini-con yesterday, but my MP4 recorder apparently decided it would be more fun to malfunction.  :

[brokemoto]

GF bought me some MP 'Sitting People' at MBK, last week.  This week, they went into the Bachmann excursion cars.   While I launched several of the people as I put them into the cars, I did manage to recover all but one.   The roof does come off the Bachpersonn cars.

[Ian MacMillan]

Craig that layout is hot. He have a website?

I bought this this weekend. Picking it up in MI Jun 13th. 1974 Fairmont A6, 5200lbs of pure power.

[up1950s]

What ya going to use to get it home ?