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Turntable work
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The first thing I’m working on now that my benchwork is complete is my turntable. Last night, I finished painting all the cobbles in the pit. Hopefully I’ll be able to install it and get it working soon
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Layout slowly getting along
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A couple weeks ago, i shared that my layout was finally begun. Well, ive done quite a bit more with it, though not as much as I would have liked. In summary: I completed the benchwork, began drawing lines for the track, assembled my unorthodox method for mounting the control station, and have been working on the turntable. Most recently, i…
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First train running on my layout
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My layout is FAR from being ready to have trains running on it properly. But I figured I might as well set up the EZ-Track oval and run my grain train now that I have the plywood on the benchwork. This is technically the first train to run on my layout, though its not running on actual layout tracks.
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New Acquisitions
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I recently purchased a lot with these 3 cars.
I dont have a locomotive for the tender. Any chance someone has a Pacific or larger that lacks a tender which they’d be willing to sell?
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Got a pretty good deal at the train museum today. These 3 old Bachman passenger cars were $5/piece. They look great with my 0-6-0…which is once again in pieces as I need to solve an electrical pickup issue caused by me moving the traction tires to the rear wheels, which vastly improved traction.
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I’ve now completed the controller I posted about yesterday. All 3 controllers work well, but one of the switches was apparently defective so it rarely works in one of the directions. Otherwise, they work great. Slow-speed control is great good by my standards. Better than my Bachman starter set controller.
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Got supplies to build a custom DC controller today. The plan is for it to be able to power 3 isolated sections of track at once (the yard and both of the mainline loops will have a controller each). The individual controllers are rated for 48V, 20A and I’ll be running them at 12V, 3A max so they should be just fine.
This will be significantly…
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Got this Kato F7A for a birthday present and wanted to get passenger cars for it ever since. Its just too pretty a model to be wasted on freight. Mid-June I finally found some for a halfway decent price. I want to get another Kato 4-pack to have a 12-car train with an observation at some point, but for now the 8 cars will be just fine.
If only…
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I don’t really have much to share regarding my N scale trains at the moment. I hope to begin construction of my layout soon. In the mean time, here’s my 5 N scale locomotives. They are in order of when I got them, with the Bachman GP40 as my first and the Kato ES44AC as my most recent.
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