New to the forum, but an old timer.

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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OK guys, I’m taking this forum for a test drive.[;)]

I’m old school, I have not had a layouit since about 1979 or so. I was the one that had his name on several of the old “MDC” 3-in-1 kit instructions. (copies of those I do have online, just ask, (wink)) A kitbasher, so some people might not take kindly to a kitbasher. LOL

I’m retired now for the second time and as soon as I can free up some real estate in my basement, I think I’ll be starting pretty much all over again. Oh yea, I do have a lot of what I used to have, nearly two complete collections of the kitbash series of kits, some recient acquisitions from the Ebay of all metal kits as well.

I look forward to checking things out in here as there are no clubs locally, except one that only runs Looooooong trains and that’s all.

For your entertainment, I’ll try and attach one of the “failed” 3-in-1 kit attempts, one that was rejected way back in the late 70’s…

Enjoy…

Cordially,

Gerry

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Welcome. Don’t forget to look at the top of this forum for instructions on posting photos.

I use to use Photo Bucket but they locked me out. No more.

I use to use Roundhouse locos some years ago. Stopped about ten years ago with DCC and sound.

E yes and fingers.

Retired mechanic back in 2006.

Look at this place for diagrams on MDC Roundhouse locos.

Look for Roundhouse.

https://hoseeker.org/lit.html

Rich

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Welcome Gerry, Yes, as Rich said, read the instructions on posting a photo. You’ll need a photo hosting site, or your own blog.

I still use Photobucket, but there are more to choose from. I also use Flickr, which works great in here.

Looking forward to seeing what you have.

Mike.

PS. OK, just found your other thread, which you just revived.

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Howdy, and welcome !

I “kit-bash” just about everything I build. And, it’s usually a Roundhouse kit. ( I LOVE ROUNDHOUSE ! )

So, that make’s you my Hero !

Welcome aboard !

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[#welcome]

I hope to see you around in here quite a bit.

-Kevin

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Welcome to the forums Gerry! I love the old MDC/Roundhouse kits. I have two MDC 2-8-0s, a Shay, and various pieces of rollingstock by them, including a rotary snowplow that I need to build. No need to worry about kitbashing, I think you’ll find that alot of us do that. I’m in the process of kitbashing a (Model Power?) flatcar into a 1910s era gas transport car.

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[#welcome] back. I left MR in the late 80’s and came back 4 years ago.

Posting photos requires you to follow the directions, it is not intuitive. I think you may like DCC and sound, which was new to me.

For me, it is not a religion and I acknowledge that there are people that don’t like sound and are perfectly happy with DC.

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GerryD,

Welcome to the Forums. You will find it is quite an eclectic gathering.

herrinchoker

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I stopped with the Roundhouse trains when Athearn stopped selling them some years ago. Not quite prototypical.They are nice though.

The 4-4-0, 2-6-0 and 2-8-0 all have the same boiler and tender. A open frame motor with skewed armature and flywheel. Real good small five pole motor. They run very well with Tsuinami 750 Micro decoder and 28mm speaker.

They are a Plane Jane next to my Bachmann 4-4-0 and 4-6-0’s.

I also have a completely revamped MDC Climax with Tsunami micro and speaker. Can motor and new drive plus flywheel. Sounds weird because the Climax ran max ten miles per hour and sounded like it was running really fast. The prototypes had two cylinder steam engines from old tug boats and geared way down.

I set the sound up like that

Rich