Good Morning Everyone.............again overcast and seasonal temperatures in Wisconsin.
Yesterday, I planned to replace the plastic wheel sets and I then decided to disassemble the coal cars and lube the couplers and check all of them with a Kadee coupler height gauge. The original owner installed the red Kadee adjustment washers on all the trucks. Then came the surprise...
Apparently the original owner did want the Athearn metal coupler covers to fall off and he used large amounts of AC to secure the coupler covers. The AC worked it way into the coupler pockets and some couplers were frozen in position and other had the metal covers were found to be completely glued in place and I was unable to free the metal covers on several cars. (I've use AC sparsely to keep plastic coupler covers in place and a little pressure from a #11 Exacto blade releases the coupler cover undamaged.)
After some time spent removing the the metal coupler covers, I found dried AC residue inside the coupler pockets and no amount of work work could clean the pockets to insure properly Kadee coupler operation. Out of the seven cars, only one car was received a pair of #158 couplers.
These cars may find themselves parked on a spur some where on the layout and not used for any operation...
I sure like Kadee's #158 Whisker couplers!!! So easy to install and no square bronze springs to worry about.
Greg
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Good morning. 17 degrees and overcast to start the day.
The wifes Christmas party was excellent. We ended up walking out with a new I pad. Not very impressed with it at all so far. No directions at all in the box and I did get it up and running last night. I guess it can come in handy when traveling insead of bringing along the laptop. When I get done here I will get back to it and try to figure it out. Went snowmobiling yesterday in West Yellowstone for the first time this year. We ran across a couple of critters tha had wandered out of the park. They pretty well go where they want to.
View attachment 32255 We had sat for a few minutes before passing. They seemed to by docile so we took a run at passing them. Found how out of shape that I was. The trip beat the snot out of me. I have body parts aching that I didn't know I had.
Karl - Nice gift.
Tom - My old ship is pretty close to you if you are near Niagara Falls. The USS Little Rock in the Buffalo Naval Park. That was the last ship I was on before I got out of the Navy. Paid it a visit last summer when we were returning home from a bowling tournament in Syracuse.
Garry - Nice photo of your grand daughter.
David - A roof leak is not good to have. Glad you got the problem taken care of. I have some Burma Shave signs to put on my layout, but just haven't figured where to put the.
Greg - Looking forward to see photos of the mine project.
Here's a rail picture for today.
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Being that I'm not moving well, I think I argue with the I pad. May try to get down stair to thr train room later.
Try this.Does anyone know where to obtain the very tiny flat head phillips screws that hold the track joiners in place on Aristo Craft G Scale track.
I have been looking for over an hour, but cannot seem to enter the correct search criteria, or else maybe there are none?
It's an extremely small screw - even smaller than eyeglass screws.
Be careful out there!Good morning. It's 30 and raining. Most of y'all know what that means...
Great news about your wife and I'm glad the snow missed you.
Let me know if your making tomato soup and grilled cheese, I love that stuff!
Not really. Other than being to identify a Big Boy or a Cab Forward, I don't know diddly about identifying steam locomotives. Yeah I can identify wheel arrangements like 2-6-2 but have no clue about a name.Karl, I may very well be the world's worst model railroader when it comes to identifying locomotives.