I guess its just so popular that its not being made fast enough.  My main line runs around the perimeter of a room. Double tracked, indide loop is 33, and the outside loop is 35.  Use the crossover tracks on the straightaways, and the spacing is just about perfect!!!

My next project is in a 20x20 shed I built, which I will need LOTS of track for. I estimate it to be about 5 years before I can get all the trackwork done, much less anything else.  Maybe longer if this limited availability (for me, anyway) continues.

Thank you Bachmann.

Hey, any thoughts for a 3 way switch?

Does anybody know if the EZ traxck system is being discontinued?  A Lot of the suppliers are sold out, and some are only doing limited runs this fall. I was just wondering, because I love using the stuff.
Jonathan

Thank you for your suggestions. To be honest, I've never tried to do any major modifiations to the running gear of any of my trains. The closest I have come is replacing the sides of superliner coaches to make Amtrak California cars, and though they look OK, I discovered I do not have the patienct for a lot of the minute things that go with it. I like to run the trains, which is why I fell in love with the Bachmann EZ track system. The closest thing to plug and play I have found. For me, if the decorated parts of the two crane sets are interchangeable, then that would be the EZ way out for me.  Just a Murphy thing, I guess.
Jonathan

I take it your 2" straight you want is different from the 2 1/4 insch straight that bachmann currently produces and markets? I have probably 5 cards of 4, waiting for me to finish cleaning the basement.

Jonathan

Hello all;
I have gotten, pretty much by accident, all the pieces to make an Amtrak Maint Of Way train in bright orange. My difficulty is, the crane and tender are the older Bachmann version that has those pesk truck mounted couplers that I can not seem to find Kadees or EZ mates to work, and the rest of the train has the EZ Mate/Kadees on them.
Does anybody know if the Amtrak crane body and tender house will go on the newer version that Bacmann makes? If so, I'll just buy an undecorated and make the conversion.
Thanx for your time
Jonathan

I actyually got the replacement back in the mail the other day. (Its on another thread) Post Marked April 26th ...  So they recieved it Jan 29, and three days shy of three months later, they send the new one out. 

Jonathan

ANd here I am still waiting for my Class J #603 that I returned Jan 29th. I'm almost to the end of the 12 week window, trhen I start making some more noise.

Jonathan

Hello there;
Anybody from North Carolina that can tell me what is in the equipment set for the Piedmont, AKA Amtrak #73, as run by the NC DOT?  I ahve the model of the F59PHI that Athearn put out, and I would like a semi accurate consist to pull behind it when running it on my layout. The people at NC DOT sent me a few pictures, but they were mostly of the engine, and the cars were like a secondary idea.  I was just wondering if anybody knew.
Thank You,
Jonathan

Okay, I guess I need a step by step explanation on how to make it work. I have the picture hosted, but I can't get it into the post. Please help, I want to show off what I did. Thank You
Jonathan

HELP!!!

I am trying to show you, but it keeps telling me "Can't Access Upload Path"

What am I doing wrong?

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Speaking as one who only has to sit for a test to get his masters electricians license, and one who has experimented with trains form many, many years, a Spectrum Powerpack will run three loco's simutaneously. Teh fourth often trips the internal breaker, however, they all have to be going the same direction. You cannot seperate them as you can with DCC, or blocks as the previous person mentioned. ANd if they are geared slightly different, or the resistance in the motor is off just a little bit, one will have a tendancy to travel faster than the other. Just some things to think about.
Jonathan

Its not so much the trick mounted part as the ITTY BITTY hole in them that I was concerned about. Sorry to open up such a hornets nest.

I have, I think, 5 of the class J's, from the first 600 that was issued, to the new 603 thats sitting in repair somewhere in Bacmann Land. (There is another whole thread on THAT one)  and the best looking radius I have run them on is the 35 1/2 that Bachmann puts out. the 33 1/3 is OK, but anything smaller than that, and the lead truck has a tendancy to jump the tracks.

And there is a slight issue of navigating the points on the #5 turnouts.

Other than that, they look real pretty sitting on my shelf.

Jonathan

Hello all;
I was just wondering if anybody knows of a Kaydee or knuckle type coupler that will replace the horn hooks from the older Bachmann and Lifelike cars that fit on the trucks, and have the itty bitty hole in them.  Know what I mean? I have a few "specialty" cars that i would like to keep, but I don't want to have them limited to being with each other.
Just wondering
Jonathan

I used RRTRACK. Its a little pricey, but the results are good. It has a library of sectrional track from just about every manufacturer, and can do (i am told) 3D rendering, though my computer always freezes up when I try.

I believe its rr-track.com, but I am not sure.

Jonathan