Well why not it runs almost a week anyway right. Here are a few things I did this week.
This Ahm plymoth was remotored with a cv backshop heisler motor. It now sports a digitrax n scale decoder. Runs slow, smooth, and very quiet. It can now also pull over 10 cars no problem.
This is my Rs snow plow work in progress. It took forever to find a cheap gondola snowplow to steal from. I have bent wire brass railings, it will also get a horn and radio antenna and a fuel tank under the chasis. It will also have mu hoses on the long hood side where I custom built the pilot and rock crusher plow strip. There will possibly be some air tanks on the top as well. Have a great week everyone.
I have not had much railroad time because of other hobby projects; I just completed a work table for flame working glass beads. Does the design look familiar?
It is nice to know that L-girder benchwork translates to other projects! [:D] (Hopefully some railroad photos next time.)
How wide is your switch back area? Also how tall. This would go great along one wall that I have where I want to put a logging scene and do not want a helix to get there.
Terry how do you like your little engine? Sorry after a couple days last week I realized that the riv one only had 2 wheels for the driver and a regular tender truck instead of the loco wheels. Looks good though. How does it run? I just got a regular one in the mail. Motor was all seized up. Completely tore it apart and got it to run real smooth. It has the motor in the boiler and leaves the cab open with nice backhead detail. I originally bought it to fix another one that I had but they were not compatibale. So I just junked the other one into a rustbucket waiting for restoration from the local scenic railroad tour group.
Grampy, what can I say, If I can ever achieve half your quality of work I will be happy. Awesome work the last couple weeks? Are you completed with your layout or still building?
As I scrolled down the page, I went past the posters name & Avatar but as soon as I saw the picture knew that it was a “Grampy” shot. Your work looks almost to real to be a model. You are an inspiration to be sure.
Please, do not ever stop posting your pictures.
As for the rest of the posters to WPF, thank you, well done and keep up the good work. The improvements over the months are very noticeable. [tup][tup]
Nice. I may have to make one of those. As to decoders, Have you looked at the Z decoders? I’m wondering if you couldn’t sneak one under the Boiler and a sond in the cab. I’m wondering how effective an engine like that would be?
In the past two weeks, I’ve gotten a half dozen steam locomotives to put decoders in, including three of the Model Power Pacifics. The Semi Streamlined version doesn’t do much for me… the streamlining is pretty poorly rendered, and was obviously concocted to add some badly needed weight over the drivers (it and the boiler casting are metal). But they run quite smoothly, although a little noisy.
You can see here that the standard version is a pretty handsome locomotive, the NP version features painted whitewalls on the drivers… A very nice touch!
I also got to tinker with a ConCor S-2, which is also a pretty nice looking locomotive. If only it comes with box-pock drivers, it would make a very suitable starting place for a WM Potomac. On this one I was just adjusting some CV’s and fixing some contact problems. One of the traction tires kept wanting to slip, but I think I got that fixed, too.
Here’s the second one of these little buggers I’ve done… The worst part is dealing with the headlights.
Runs great, though, and these are really fun to watch. Sooner or later I’ll get around to putting a chip in mine!
This one’s my favorite, a good ole’ Bachmann 2-8-0. Sooner or later I’m going to want to get a brace of these to run down at the club with a 70 car coal train… mid train helpers and pushers at the back.
This is my Rs snow plow work in progress. It took forever to find a cheap gondola snowplow to steal from. I have bent wire brass railings, it will also get a horn and radio antenna and a fuel tank under the chasis. It will also have mu hoses on the long hood side where I custom built the pilot and rock crusher plow strip. There will possibly be some air tanks on the top as well. Have a great week everyone.
