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Mill City posted:
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Laidoffsick posted:

Mine will be here tomorrow 

That figures. Special treatment for special people. 

Yes. However, that "special treatment" comes with the loving added cost of CA. state sales tax. The government does not supply reach-around services either.

Mine is scheduled for tomorrow, but since I'll be at work I'm going to have to run to the UPS depot to get it. And that cursed Sales Tax is ridiculous. Thank goodness I don't live in Los Angeles County where it's over 10%.

Now it's on to seeing if we can get SD40-2's produced in CNW.

I was over there today and there are about 2 dozen models available.  The remainder are all in process of waiting for final payment or being shipped. All the SP units are sold and a couple of people who waited too long found out non were available.  I was pleasantly surprised to find out all the demonstrators were sold.  

The mods look great, Doug. Going to put the Kadees on my units after doing some test running at the club Picked up one of mine Friday afternoon (had them re-routed and they ended up going to two different UPS drop centers). Going to get the other one Saturday morning on the way to the club. Will post photos when I get them on the club layout. Seriously considering a pair of SD40-2's.

Picked mine up Friday (1703 and 1704). Need to paint the air hoses on the Kadee pilots before I install Kadees. The detailing and paint are excellent on these units. Wish the budget had allowed for a couple of SP units. Sound and low speed running are great. Didn't really get much of a chance to do what I consider review level of testing. Hopefully I'll be able to do that this week.

Didn't see it in the instructions, but does the emergency light light up (which 3rd rail correctly placed on the CNW units)? The class lights are keyed into the directional headlights.

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Hot Water posted:
Matt Makens posted:

Jack, can you wait that long?

Sure can. I provided the original EMD Styling & Painting drawing for this model, and already have seen photos of the models, from Scott. Tomorrow, I'll open it and changeout the claws and pilots. This one might not get weathered.

I would suggest not removing the pilot to install the filler for the Kadee couplers.  The pilot comes off easily with 2 screws and the pilot handrails separate at the tees.  But,  reinstalling the handrails to the tees can be annoying.

Very impressed with the Railsounds horn quality in the first video Dave Minarik posted.  Lots of depth and presence to it -- MUCH more than prior Railsounds that Lionel would license to companies like 3rd Rail and Atlas-O.  Very encouraging... can't wait to see and hear the E8/E9's which are due in March 2017.  I have two Canadian Pacific units on order.

David

Erik C Lindgren posted:

So envious Doug those BlackBirds are SWEET! I already have OMI brass samples factory painted; these I think are better! 

Thanks nothing to be envious about.  I got lucky and picked up the second SP SD 7 when The C&S did not come in the Chinese red scheme( 1959 deliveries) as ordered and canceled the second CB&Q SD9. The good thing. The C&S SD9 survived in that scheme until a year after the merger. 

The Burlington "blackbird" paint scheme is a real beauty.  As an addendum, the SD9's/SD7's were ordered for Western service and for the "Q's" southern IL coal line. One or two SD's replaced one O1a 2-8-2 in mine run service, and 3-4 SD's replaced one M4a 2-10-4 on 8800 ton mainline coal trains. Note that Sunset is doing the O1a's - - would mate up quite nicely with the Burlington SD9's, as they worked side by side into January 1959, both on the coal line  and leased to the Colorado & Southern, to replace diesels wrecked in September, 1958.

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A NOTE TO 3 RAIL CONVENTIONAL RUNNERS. WE TURNED OFF THE SOUND DURING INSPECTION AT THE FACTORY. THE RAILSOUNDS BOARD REMEMBERS THIS SETTING. WHEN ONE RUNS THE MODEL IN CONVENTIONAL MODE, THE SOUND REMAINS TURNED OFF. ONE MUST HAVE ACCESS TO A TMCC SIGNAL TO TURN THE SOUND BACK (AUX1 - 1,1,1,1)  ON... SIGH..... IT'S ALWAYS SOMETHING.

I SUGGEST TO ALL THAT STILL ONLY RUN CONVENTIONAL, INVEST IN A CAB-1L OR LEGACY REMOTE. THEN YOU CAN FULLY ENJOY THESE MODELS.

Off to China. SP S-12 inspection, El Capitan 2nd Run Production and many projects in design.

Scott Mann

John Sethian posted:

By any chance, has any one opened one of these up? I would be curious if one could fit a DCS system in there.

John,

I will get on that.  I really dig the sound in the board but I am not too crazy about lashup performance.  TMCC seems pretty archaic (reminds me of writing a computer program with punch cards lol).

They are belt drive. Motor in the body, drive shafts in the fuel tank.

Dave

David Minarik posted:
John Sethian posted:

By any chance, has any one opened one of these up? I would be curious if one could fit a DCS system in there.

John,

I will get on that.  I really dig the sound in the board but I am not too crazy about lashup performance.  TMCC seems pretty archaic (reminds me of writing a computer program with punch cards lol).

They are belt drive. Motor in the body, drive shafts in the fuel tank.

Dave

Thanks Dave. I look forward to your photos.  Drive shafts in the tank gives hope PS 2 (or 3) will fit.

NICE LAYOUT, by the way!

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Matt Makens posted:

I could be mistaken but I'm fairly certain CNW didn't run long hood forward but was set up for left hand running not right hand running like most other roads 

Matt I believe you are correct.  Now I need to go back and look at the drawings I drew 6 months ago.  I just remember we got the correct logo on the correct side.

 

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Matt Makens posted:

Are you sure about that? If the CNW was set up for left handed running all of the signals would be on the other side of the tracks 

Careful here Matt. Have you ever been over the C&NW main line from Chicago to the Missouri River? When the C&NW installed ATC (late 1920s?) the new system did NOT include wayside signals, except at control points (cross-overs, etc.). Since the UP/CNW merger, the UP is reinstalling double track, CTC, and full way-side signaling.

Jack I'm unbelievably rusty on my CNW facts as it's been some years since I did any reading on the subject and my memory isn't all that great.  So I'm not making any statements as facts to any of these points. We both know that I sometimes speak without thinking and it's hard to have a leg to stand on with bith feet in your mouth. I want to know these things so I'll just engage in conversation and ask questions

Matt Makens posted:

Are you sure about that? If the CNW was set up for left handed running all of the signals would be on the other side of the tracks 

Matt

 

I grew up along the north line to Kenosha/Milwaukee. All the track signals were over head. Same as the northwest line.  Can't say anything about the mainline to Missouri, but that the signals were also over head coming out of the Proviso yards.

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

I just recieved my UPS e-mail informing me of a delivery today. ...

Interesting... my UPS emails usually hit shortly after midnight and alert me to packages arriving the NEXT day.  I like that timing, 'cause it allows me to divert the routing to a local UPS Store in town, where I can sign for it and pick up the package at my convenience if I won't be working at home that day.

David

Thank you Erik.  This project really turned out well.  I can't take all the credit though.  It's a team process and several people, you included, pull all the information together to get us started and I simply sort out the data, supplemented with the research I do for road specific details and finally produce the final painting graphics.  As we saw from the F7s the hardest job is making sure the factory understands the drawings and Scott and the project managers at the factory get all the credit for that.  Just like my architectural profession, the final product is judged by the attention to detail.

GG1 4877 posted:

Thank you Erik.  This project really turned out well.  I can't take all the credit though.  It's a team process and several people, you included, pull all the information together to get us started and I simply sort out the data, supplemented with the research I do for road specific details and finally produce the final painting graphics.  As we saw from the F7s the hardest job is making sure the factory understands the drawings and Scott and the project managers at the factory get all the credit for that.  Just like my architectural profession, the final product is judged by the attention to detail.

Looks like Scott did a great job on these, Just curious as to how the orders broke down between 2 rail and 3 rail models. I have not seen any pics posted of the 2 rail version.

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