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strummer

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Re: Smoking Steamer in N scale
« Reply #60 on: March 29, 2015, 11:21:35 PM »
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I love happy endings....

Mark in Oregon

victor miranda

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Re: Smoking Steamer in N scale
« Reply #61 on: March 29, 2015, 11:26:35 PM »
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are pictures possible?

here is the fun part.
see if you can get any one to tell you how they got
one of those old hudsons to go at 20-25 smph reliably.

that is pretty good. I think your tender is the trick.

victor

MRLX1020

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Re: Smoking Steamer in N scale
« Reply #62 on: March 29, 2015, 11:52:18 PM »
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I had an Atlas RS-1 that smoked - once - and that was it....  back to the factory.

I think they sent me a whole new unit - as the long hood was melted.

I thought it was cool being an Alco....  oh well.

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Re: Smoking Steamer in N scale
« Reply #63 on: March 30, 2015, 12:24:30 AM »
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It gave me a smile.

for a short time....
one has a very realistic looking loco.

victor

Doug G.

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Re: Smoking Steamer in N scale
« Reply #64 on: March 30, 2015, 03:50:01 AM »
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It's almost all in the motor. The single biggest improvement between early N scale locomotives and later (after 1983's RS-3) is motors.

You take an old Rivarossi and add a new motor and voila.

Doug
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www.irwinsjournal.com/a1g/a1glocos/