Reply to "MTH CSX SD40-2 with fixed pilot"

Peter E BOGR Forum Member

@@Rich. Thanks for the reply. I was totally unaware of Most of what you wrote!! I didn’t get out much even before Covid 19!! LOL.

I do remember Gargraves track being so much better looking but way too expensive for a pre teenage Kid!

I knew that MTH had both 2 and 3 rail like Atlas but didn’t realize it was that easy to change things around.

I started O scale 2 rail with an Atlas SW 1 with a single horizontal motor about 10 years ago. It ran like a fine watch but drew about 5 amps making it a problem for DCC which I wanted to get into. I sold it and bought an old Custom Brass RS1 as I liked RS1's. This one had an old gigantic open frame motor that drew about 7 amps! So started my hobby within a hobby of remotoring and drive line work to get crawling speed and less that 1 amp draw so I could use HO decoders. It’s been a fun but time consuming journey.

BTW your layout is a wonderful thing to look at.

Peter

5/25/2011:02 AM

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