I may be a little dense but don't want to screw up.
Were do I pick up power for the sound board and how the heck do I hook up the optical sensors?
locoron

I work at a local hobby shop. Got our first two mallets in Monday and the first one I sold had a broken crankpin bolt. These are very delicate so be careful not to over tighten as I doubt that replacements will be available.
The second one had loose bolts so I carefully snugged them down. Not TO tight!!
What a beauty and a good runner.
   Locoron

FYI
Could not find any thing for galloping goose,or similar, that would fit without a butcher job so settled for an MRC 1662 sound only chip. Fits easily under roof and 28mm speaker fits behind rear bulkhead. Easy installation and sounds good.
locoron

I want to put a Micro-Sunami in the 80T three truck Shay.
Does anyone know of a website where soe one with more imagination than I has done this?
locoron

locoron

The rear truck on my Forney derails at random locations.  Have checked track gauge and level.  Lead and trailing trucks on all other engines have no problem.
It has a 100% problem on a right hand turnout. As it goesthru to the right the trailing truck follows the straight path.
Drat, this is the passenger engine and service is seriuosly disrupted.
Any ideas?
   Thanks  Ron

By the time I got around to gluing the K27 and freight car covers on I found I had lost one off the tender and one off a boxcar. Drat!
Are these going to be available in the near future?
May try to resin cast a few.

Got the thing apart and replaced LED with Miniatronics # 12-510-05 Yeloglo white LED. Much better than the anemic original.
All the innards come out the front so I carefully drilled a 1/8 dia hole in the rear cover.Then used a blunt tool to push, and ya really gotta PUSH, which popped out the lens, bulbholder and bulb. Installed new LED and then used a hole punch to create a small disc of thin styrene.  Glued that over the hole, painted it and it looks fine.
   Locoron

Bachmann deserves  the equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prise for the K27.
Beats the heck out of the $ 3000 engines.  However there has to be a nitpicker in the works and I be guilty. Didn't like the orange color on the classification lights. So replaced them with Miniatronics Yellowglow white LED's
What worries me is the headlight. If that LED burns out, which they  do once in a while, how the heck does the headlight come apart?