As several here know, I am autistic, on the higher functioning end of the spectrum most days. Trains are my obession and passion since I was a very young child. I have done up 1 LGB European passenger car and 3 Kalamazoo USA style cars for Autism. I, like many autistics will flip/flop between what I am hyper focusing on within my obsession. For me this is between European and American prototypes. Also influenced by my need to use mostly tight R1 radius curves on my railway. My live steam engine of choice is the Frank S, made by Aster in Japan for LGB. Able to handle any curve radius made by LGB, chunky looking, lots of good detail and easy to run. Mine has 2.4ghz RC control installed and working LED's in all 3 front lanterns. I used a past convention passenger car(price was right and it allowed me to cover most of the factory graphics). I printed out the images first on normal printer paper to get sizing correct, then on photo paper. I glued these images to the LGB car with a UHE brand glue stick. This is one of the few brands of glue that will stick to the special plastic LGB used back then. I added a Massoth LED light board to the ceiling and run it off a 9vt battery and a micro toggle switch hidden in the floor. I still need to add a light to the tail lantern. My tail sign is a membership pin to the old G Scale Mad website that was based in the UK and a was a wonderful place to hang out. First 2 pictures are from a steam up at the Huckleberry RR up in Flint Michigan. The layout belongs to the Michigan Small Scale Live Steamers. The third pic is from the recent open house at RLD Hobbies in Albion IL. That layout is battery or live steam only, no track power. The shop specializes in large scale trains. Last few pics are from my twilight run session tonight using my LGB 2073d that has onboard battery power. Enjoy. Mike
