I may have redefined "freelanced". I started out with WM equipment, then B&O and Pennsy. I liked all the other stuff and wondered, do I have to model the Clinchfield to buy one of their coal hoppers? Do I have to model the New York Central System to buy their box cars and Baldwin Shark? It's my railroad and I decided to name it the Fallen Flag Railway System. I have a list of Class A roads from the late fifties, I plan to have one of everything at minimum. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Can't stop!!!!!!I don't want to!!!!!!!Need just one more....................!!!!!!!!!!

Wires on the telegraph poles may add "clutter" and take away from your layout rather than add to it. Definitely put in the poles. Like Jim said, if you don't get the sag perfect, it will only detract from the layout. If you are truly obsessed, try monofilament fishing line, heat gun for the sag and airbrush it dark gray.

Quote from: BaltoOhioRRfan on February 16, 2007, 08:45:55 PM
chucknlead,

   I've got three of the IHJC 2-10-2's 2 in B&O and 1 in C&O....1 of the B&O i have i put the Rivarossi Shell on and changed the tender. Looks good.

Funny you said that. I don't like the headlight in the center of the firebox door and the funny looking vanderbilt tender. Will a Bachman tender match up? How hard was it to swap shells?

RE: Jesse- My buddy works in the Maint. Deptartment at Nasa Goddard. I've done work there myself as contractor. My wife and I have been to the Museum in "Balimer"; can't get enough of it.

I know what you mean. I spent over a thousand bucks in one month on motive power. But I did get a good deal. Two of the engines alone retailed at over seven hundred, I paid less than three. Just picked up an IHC B&O "Big six."

BTW- I'm also a B&O RR fan. The old main line passes my house here in Brunswick, MD. The origional tracks were laid here over 170 years ago.

"Big Six" Brunswick, MD. 1941:

Quote from: brad on February 10, 2007, 09:59:48 AM
One of my fondest childhood memories is the years we lived in Whitehorse, Yukon. Some relatives were up to visit from Ontario and both our families set out to tour the Yukon and Alaska, 9 people in an 1977 Suburban (basiscally a big tin box back then) We stopped in Dawson City for 3 or 4 days to tour around the gold fields and the town. Across the road from the RCMP station where we camped) was a bunch of little steam engines that we played on for hours every day. I remember them being partly stripped of gauges, levers etc, but they were a lot of fun to play on just sitting in the park. Only when I got back into MRing did I realise how cool that was, being 10 and being able to play on old WP&YR locos. I have a bunch of black and white photos I took on my old Kodak Instamatic, the ones that took the 135 film insert, remember those? I also have a picture of all five kids sitting IN the chain links of the boom arm on a gold dredge outside Dawson.

brad

How about some pictures!

Quote from: Trains Again on February 02, 2007, 10:48:50 PM
One of my friends has a LokSound decoder in his Rivarossi H-8. To me, it sounds better than Sountraxx. I'm not sure how easy or hard it would be to install though.

I didn't see a 2-6-6-6 in the Loksound list however I did see a 2-8-8-2. Is there a way I can sample the sound for the 2-8-8-2? The soundlist that I did find only had generic sounds with cheesy whistles.

I just bought a Riverossi H-8 and put a non sound decoder in the tender. Why can't you put a sound decoder in the tender. There are holes drilled in the bottom for speakers.

Quote from: Jim Banner on February 10, 2007, 12:33:24 AM
Most of Bachmann's capacitors are sort of like yellow M&M's with legs.  But they may also be square.  Sometimes they are blue instead of yellow.

If they have copper wire around them, they are inductors.
If the are cylindrical with four coloured stripes, they are resistors.
If they are black with a single white stripe, they are diodes.

This photo shows all four:

Is that thing on the upper right the "cap"?

Keep in mind that EZ track is intended as an entry level track that you could assemble on you carpet. (like me) It is designed for quick assembly and ease of use. Don't expect many "Advanced" features from the track, switches or EZ command. It's slick, simple and AFFORDABLE.

I'm kinda in the same boat. My railroad is outgrowing EZ Command. I have about fifteen locomotives but EZ command only has eight addresses for DCC equipped locos. I'm gonna have to be creative and de-energize sidings to allow multiple addressing of engines.

Excellent illustration "msowsun"

woohoo! It worked! I'm still on board the Bachman train!