Got a Weaver Lackawanna weathered boxcar. For my fleet of weathered Freight.
Odenville Bill posted:Lew, Those are fine looking engines. Are they conventional or some kind of hi-tech?
I have a prewar set and two 50's steamers coming to the mountain. Film at 11:00.
Bill, they are Atlas O 3-rail. They run conventional variable voltage AC but do have early (Dallee) electronic reversing units with "sound" incorporated. The sound is a generic burbling more akin to an Alco than an EMD. The mechanism is a superb mid-motor drive with flywheels then u-joints to gear towers in the trucks. Here is a peek under the hood :
Those are 4700 mike caps to keep the sound going while cycling the throttle to change directions. It is a very smooth drive system greta for switching at slow speed. They are heavy engines because the only part not die-cast is the cab and cab floor. Frame, trucks, truck side frames and the hood are all metal. There is even an addition metal weight added under the cab floor (seen at the right end of the main frame).
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Thank you Lew. I'll do some looking tonight. I don't have a diesel switcher (yet).
maybe you can help what is this looks like one of your cars I took these in St. Louis the other day but I don’t know what it is
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N S 34...
It was built from NW SD35 #1530. The cab was added in the past year, and it houses electronic equipment for track testing, no actual locomotive controls inside.
more here...
https://www.railpictures.net/photoexif/263022/
https://www.railpictures.net/s...tive=research%20slug
briansilvermustang posted:
N S 34...
It was built from NW SD35 #1530. The cab was added in the past year, and it houses electronic equipment for track testing, no actual locomotive controls inside.
more here...
https://www.railpictures.net/photoexif/263022/
https://www.railpictures.net/s...tive=research%20slug
Thanks Brian I appreciate it
geysergazer posted:I'm not much of a collector but hoarding could be a different matter.....Having "discovered" Atlas O Sw8/9s (only 20-or-so years late) I find myself wanting moar.
Here is #1:
It runs so slow, quiet&sweet I just HAD to have another so here is #2:
And one day soon the Postman will be dropping off #3
trainz shipped it yesterday
very nice Lew; is this an around the wall layout?
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daylight posted:geysergazer posted:I'm not much of a collector but hoarding could be a different matter.....Having "discovered" Atlas O Sw8/9s (only 20-or-so years late) I find myself wanting moar.
Here is #1:
It runs so slow, quiet&sweet I just HAD to have another so here is #2
And one day soon the Postman will be dropping off #3
trainz shipped it yesterday
very nice Lew; is this an around the wall layout?
Yes, it is a simple loop around the walls of a12 X 11 room. East End / West End industrial district makes it pretty much a switching pike.
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I bought a Southern PS-4 Pacific 4-6-2 locomotive and tender (Lionel 6-11103), for a lot less than retail (on the Sell/Trade Forum), because the trucks on the tender had zinc disease and disintegrated. Engine is fine. I bought a set of trucks on which the tender sits, loose. Nice as long as I don't touch it -- and of course, I'm just displaying it. See attached photos, first of the disintegrated wheel assembles, of the engine and tender, and a close-up of the engine front.
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Wow! That engine looks great, Andrew! With new wheels it should be a great addition!!
Having gone to York with no intentions to purchase anything large. I did make a really great purchase. Perhaps the most essential...
Well, that idea went out the door. Walmart in Gettysburg. Priceless