KenP... Sorry about the superbowl thing. Die hard cowboys fan. Totally peeved at the giants. I never got around to changing it.

It was talked about awhile ago.... But come on, we need some.

HO scale harriman steam. Preferably 2-8-2s, 4-6-2s, 0-6-0s, and others.

There aren't enough mikes and pacifics out there... We need a nice pacific and mike that will suit more than one railroad.

Who's with me?

If you lived here back in november, you could have picked up an S-3 by atlas for $30 at a train show. There were two, I picked up one. The second wasn't bought.

It wasn't a train related day.
I got:

6 freight cars.
Proto 2000 40' Mather Stock Car, NP
Athearn 50' Reefer, Fruit Growers Express
2 Roundhouse 40' Boxcars, SP
Atlas Steam Era Classics 11,000 gallon tanker, Weston (Not sure)
Intermountain 40' Stock Car, AT&SF

(The stock car roadnames might be backwards)

Quote from: newguy on December 09, 2007, 07:24:09 PM
Thanks Jim,

The only difference now between my DCC equipped locos and my newly installed decoder is that I notice now that I can still control the speed  and direction of the light mountain with the new decoder even when the function button is pressed. But that's ok.

Andrew

That's a deliberate function for the E-Z command. I mean come on, running a sound equipped loco when you want to blow the whistle, you can't control speed? That'd just be dumb. The only thing you can't do (that I know of) with the function button pressed is select another locomotive.

They can have sound if it comes with it or you installed it.

Quote from: SteamGene on November 25, 2007, 09:00:40 AM
Any idea as to the age? 
Gene

I don't know. I didn't get the chance to go inside of it.

Lanny, this is a trainset engine, far from those BLI 4-8-4s which also should work on 22" radius also. I compared it to my bachmann GS-4, and the GS-4 had 5-6 times more side play than the Niagra/FEF, yet it's basically the same drivers.

My friend recently bought the Union Pacific 4-8-4 from the Overland Limited I believe, basically the NYC niagra in UP paint, and the instant he brought it over, we found a major issue. It wouldn't run around the curves without jerking. On my 22" radius curves, it would jerk, jerk, and wobble until the front driver would come loose, it would double in speed, then hit a turnout causing a short becuase the lead driver was off and hit the opposite polarity rail. Seeing as this is a trainset locomotive, I'm astonished it performs this badly. I checked for side play in the drivewheels, and there was harldy any.

Is this a typical problem? How can it be fixed?

Thanks in advance.

Mark

I just got the news by IM. Steve, wherever you are, maybe back on the IC, driving a fast freight, we'll miss you.

I hope so.

I also believe it is "smarter" not "smater"

Steve is in my prayers. I think CN bought out IC, so I don't know exactly if he is all too happy with them switching outside his window...

This place is real. I got my spectrum 2-8-0 with sound for $142.50 from them.

Personally I'd just get some atlas flex and some homasote roadbed and fix the issue, or create a headshunt with a 2nd turnout.

Go for DCC. Most bachmann locomotives are if not equiped DCC ready, which means you either solder a decoder in (only 1 engine of the spectrum's needed this, I believe), the rest you can pop in an 8 pin NMRA decoder, get a DCC system (I recomend Digitrax's Zephyr) program the locomotives, and run them.

How dare you buy tracktors that aren't Hubers....

BAD CORRIE.