

Pennsylvania_421
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55 Points
Rank:Rail Enthusiast
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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55 Points
Rank:Rail Enthusiast
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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55 Points
Rank:Rail Enthusiast
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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55 Points
Rank:Rail Enthusiast
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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