Source eBay UK Time for this old friend to go. I have had it for ten years and run it twice maybe. It was sold to me as 'restored mint' which is clearly a contradiction in terms, but it gives you an idea of the loco's condition. It has been professionally touched up and looks...
I wired it to run and it ran nice I just really missed the sounds and the smoke unit. Fast forwarding to now I was on ebay Sat night and found a decent looking Union Pacific 1757 10 wheeler, I won it at a good price and was all excited to get it. Well when i got ...
JJTrainsOGR Forum Member Interesting that you raise the idea of using polyfuses. I had considered doing so awhile back but decided against it because a) there's no explicit feedback (other than the power being absent) that the protection has engaged, and b) they restore power automatically ...
Engines | Rolling Stock | Back to Modern Trains As you've probably noticed, MTH (Mike's Train House) trains make up the majority of my collection. Ever since I was introduced to MTH's DCS control system I've been a die-hard fan of their stuff. For being a mass producer of trains,...
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The smaller players on the far side make it harder to gauge distance. Frequent miss-hits often send the ball WAY out of bounds. The audio is weak, starting with a referee who has an annoying way of referring to the CPU player as "computa". Sometimes the crowd gets into an uproar for...
gauge, but it was within a couple of thou to all the other track. It may be that an axle is out of gauge on the unit. I have to check that. The bridge has Ross bridge track with guardrails installed. The wheels seem to be binding in the guardrails. I have no problems with any ...
Hi Guys,thanks to all of you for the warm welcomes.I'm really looking forward to talking trains to you all and sharing knowledge and all the usual stuff . To Chris ., "what drew me to the B&O "? Well it all started a good number of years ago when I started into G scale modellin...
eBay has Asian suppliers for at least 8 relay boards that run on 12 volts. I have regular micro-toggles that fit into the roadbed of FasTrack. it's less than a 3/8" hole with about a 1/2" lever. Just have to figure out how to drive the bi-color LED's. or check out berrett...
if you setup as 6 bpc's if on any one loop/track your running conventional trains now you can turn power off to that one block section yet rest of blocks on that same bpc are still powered. this comes in handy if you have switches where one train can come from a inner loop to the...