Good morning. Hope everyone had a great Christmas. We're starting the day off with a goose egg (
0) in the thermometer. Starting to get tired of snow, but this is the way winter were years ago.
Truckdad posted a photo of a big snowblower yesterday which is a bit ironic because I managed to find a good deal on a walk behind snowblower at Sears. AN electric start 2 stage blower with a 24" auger. I can use this to widen my driveway by running along the edge and clearing away the snow that has been plowed to the edger. These machines were running between $900 and $1,400 but this was on a special and the $949 unit was down to $600 for the holidays. I have my skid steer out in the shop, but there is iver three feet of snow that would have to be dug out to even get to the road.
Ken - I picked up the Atlas Gold RS-1 with LocSound and really like it. It wasn't cheap, but knowing nothing at all about DCC, I am pleased with it. I have learned how to program the locomotive to the road number but that's my limit of knowledge about DCC. I did have an issue with it at first, but do enjoy running it at the club. Visitors do enjoy the sounds.
Talking about the club, I haven't been able to get over there for ovr a month because of the crappy roads. Don't care to go over that pass on icy and snow covered roads at night.
Louis - Nice to see you chiming in. I'm sure that you have been run ragged with all of the Christmas packages.
I think this forum is fantastic as there have been so many DCC problems solved with the help of other members. Not only DCC problems, but advice on so many other model railroad issues. Sure with it would have been available 30 years ago when I started my layout. I had to learn the hard way in the school of hard knocks.
Garry - Be safe on your trip, not the best time of year to be out on the highways.
Here's a rail photo for the day from West Virginia.
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