Yesterday morning, I met Terry, the owner of Ohkwari Sales, an E-Bay store. He is also here in Central AZ, and close enough to the UP main that we watched a pair of GP40’s (including a HLGX Rent-A-Wreck) switching from his yard. Terry is modeling the now underwater Rio Grande […]
Well guys, today for gits and shiggles, I took 16 freight cars, a loco and a caboose on my 86″ long layout and pulled the train a whopping 8 inches before I ran out of track. I have decided to use the pair of #6 switches and the flex track […]
thinking about an addon….
Today I dug out a Con-Cor 3 pack of Santa Fe 50 ft box cars that I got in Durango in 1989. I figured that they were Kato built due to the era…nope. Life-Like
Murphy’s Law…
Over the last month, I have found myself running trains less and less. my Kato/Atlas GP35R was needing to be push started, did not like low speeds, and the light kept flickering. Today, I dug out the bight-boy, scrubbed and scrubbed and scrubbed some more to no avail. I wanted […]
found my electrical issue….
I was thinking about heading down to the main line today and collecting some real, Southern Pacific dirt, sifting it, baking it, then using a magnet to make sure that there is no metal in it….it’s raining. Not the typical rain for 10-30 minute, this is rain. Most of my […]
ugh
I got a new boxcar from http://specialruns.com and http://trainboard.com. They have released a Micro Trains Line Missouri-Illinois box car, a run of 300. Now here is the dilemma, this car has been photographed across the country, from CA to New Jersey, but the number is too early for me. I […]