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Reply to "Switcher Saturday: 2015-Nov-07"

Well... I don't have a new picture of:

 

"Your favorite switcher coupled with your favorite cabin car/caboose."

 

Could have taken a new pic, but I've got too many things going on and I'm feeling lazy to boot, soooo...

 

Thought I'd repost a pic that I shared some time ago. It's the only model pic I have of an engine w/caboose.  So, it's not necessarily my FAVORITE engine/caboose... but it is AMONG my "favorites".

 

Anyway, here's KC&G RS-3 #255 trundling through the West Bottoms on a caboose hop with KC&G caboose 1223 trailing behind...

 

(Scale: HO.)

  

KCnG_255_c1223

 

Now, for an update of sorts:

 

Much to my surprise, here a couple months ago I received a notification from my online hobby supplier that Atlas had just received a shipment of models that was not supposed to be received for a number of months yet. Models that I had reserved.  So, $380 lighter, I received two undecorated Atlas Gold S-2 switchers complete with DCC/Sound.  These will become KC&G engines.

 

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I received back from the sound guy my two engines that I had sent to him for DCC/Sound installation. While in his possession, he installed a sound decoder into the Atlas HH-660 that is destined to become Kansas City Terminal #50, as well as installing DCC/Sound into my first KC&G to receive DCC/Sound: RS-3 #269. It's cool to hear a this first KC&G unit burbling and wheezing along the rails instead of just silently gliding down the track!

 

Also, just this week I committed to purchasing 2 Tsunami GN-1000 EMD DCC/Sound decoders destined to be installed in my KC&G NW2 #136 and KC&G GP7 #412.  Once the sound guy has received the decoders, I will ship my two KC&G engines to him for installation. Slowly but surely the KC&G roster is having life breathed into it! (To me, sound helps to make them come alive.)

 

All fer now.

 

 

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