Time for a new place.
Old Thread.
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My layout hasn’t really moved forward, I’ve gotten busy with other things again…
Joe, congrats on continuing to make progress on your layout.
You guys need to be my motivator, i.e. push me to do work on mine. [:D]
PEER PRESSURE! [swg]
I’ve been working on my schedule. I’ll post it when it’s done.
The new schedule is up on my blog. I also have a new video!
Video - Chasing train NAWJ
Chasing intermodal hotshot NAWJ (Nashua, NH - White River Jct., VT) over the White River Southern Railroad. We’ll meet business train extra LECD-1 in Ogden Siding and see some overhead views of the train on the Mascoma Lake Grade.
Don’t submit to peer pressure! The only right choice is your choice!
Tyler, I like the schedule. It makes it easier to understand how the railroad operates.
Okay, so I said it was dirty track. Now, I dont know what it is. Ive stopped the phenomena of trains moving a few mm and then the system beeping. Now, the trains have full power, but wont move. One putters along at .000000000000000000000000001 MPH, jittering all along, but thats it. I put some metal across the track to see if the system would respond and it did. The locos could have VERY dirty wheels and cant receive power because of it, or their decoders could be fried. Also, it could be the DCC system itself. I hope to take the locos and system to a hobby shop test track and see if they are the problems or not. Any input?
I believe I remember you saying something once about having Bmann DCC On Board locos. They’re shiz.
On my GP50, the rear headlight is always on, whether I turn it on or not. The loco doesn’t move. When I switch directions, the rear headlight stays on, and the front headlight doesn’t activate, and the loco still doesn’t move…
Bmann’s QC is either lacking or nonextant. But both my Spectrum F40s run/ran fine (I only have one, because the first one died, and I was able to get a cheap replacement, but I’d had it for years before it died)…
I do not have Bmann decoders. The DCC system is supposed to run a DC loco when set at “00,” But even that isnt working. I have an idea. Maybe the wheels are dirty. In that case, I will clean a section of track and take an unused loco and see if it goes. This could show if it is dirt or electrical. But remember, I have a Bazillion papers a week, and now two unit exams as of today, so it might be a few months before I go down stairs. I SO wish they could run right now, because I remember the good feeling I had when they were running at the train show that felt like eating a 1000 ice cream sundays.
ALEX…
It’s 8:00PM…
Have you worked on you layout today?[:D]
Okay got that out of my system,
As for your loco problems John, that sounds quite strange. You said they moved but only at a crawl? Must be a DCC thing, I don’t have a clue. For me it’s either they run or they don’t. Also what was your DCC system again?
Hope you find the problem soon. If I had that much school work I’d need to run my trains every day to preserve my sanity[(-D].
In local news,
I got the parts in for my SD40-2 today. I have to admit, I was amazed how simple a Kato mechanism is. Within a half hour I had the entire mechanism moved to the new frame (the old one got distroyed while I was “trouble shooting” the electrical problem) including the new curicut board. I also confermed that the old board was the cause of the electrical problem. When I pulled it off the loco I noticed a large crater on the underside where it had burnt out. I haven’t been able to use this loco in at least 2 years, so it’s like getting a new one[:P]
Well, see you all next time,
Jamie
John, sounds to me like it’s the system and not the locos then. You should probably get that thing checked.
Jamie, sweet that you got it running again.
Well, my Spanish paper is more or less done, and I was able to convince my mom to let me begin on the layout soon! [:D]
Runs “puffing and chuffing” up the stairs and screams YES to the world It was as I thought!!! The Track was so dirty, I now need a new track eraser. 2 of my 3 DCC locos ran fine After I cleaned them and the track. The third is still crawling, though. I also got to completely try my new throttle. AMAZING! Solved! IS NOW EATING 1000 ICE CREAM SUNDAYS AGAIN!
At least it was something easy!
Got a crapload of track in the mail from Tyler. I know I won’t use anything close to all of it, but I just bought it all anyway…
Yeah, I sent you enough curves to make a helix up to the floor above…
John: You can clean your bright boy / track eraser with sandpaper. I’ve been using the same one for years and cleaning it after every time I clean all my track with it.
That reminds me of an old MRM Cartoon, a Joe Model Railroader was showing friends his hallway. He said "This is the Helix that connects my Basement Layout to my Attic Layout.
Also, check out my Photobucket site below, and tell me if it works and how you like it.
I can see the photos, but cut the background image and go with black, gray, or white…your photos will look so much better when you don’t have to struggle to distinguish them from a photo background.
Just my opinion.
Yeah, I checked, and there’s enough to make 3 and a quarter circles, not counting the straights.
And as I was un-rubberbanding it, a piece of the WRS fell out, a few pieces of ballast glued together. I now own 0.000001 of the WRS! You forgot to mail my Certificate of Stock [:D]
John, I like it. A bunch of nice photos ya got
Tyler, Thanks for the feedback. I have now (sorry for the previous typo that spelled “not”) implemented a better background. I also added a slideshow showing the best photos. A link is in the photo at the end of my signature. Try that and temm me what you think of that please.
Joe, tehehe. What a story.
Joe, nice story right there!
My photobucket backdrop is a pic I rather like. I don’t really care if people can distinguish my photos or not as of yet, as I don’t add tags. All I use my photobucket for is a site to hold my pictures for posting them to the forums. I may someday get around to tagging them all (lord help me if I ever do though; last time I checked there were about 1900+ files I had uploaded)
Okay, I have something that could very easily start a discussion. In nearly every MRR project layout, the writer always says something like “This little end sticking off right here is for future expansion.” Well, those little niches are always included for such an instance in nearly every layout. So tell me this? Has anyone ever expanded off those little edges? Does anyone have plans for such an operation? Put plainly, can you find a likely instance where expansion will most definitely occur with such an expansion that will not harm normal operations?
I’m falling behind here…
I’m away for the next two weekends, so no layout work anytime soon.
And it isn’t peer pressure if I’m telling you to pressure me!