Recent content by TrinityJayOne

Lionel don't produce anything in N as far as I know. The big name brands are Atlas, Kato & Athearn, and then you have companies that don't seem to release as much/aren't as common like InterMountain and Fox Valley Models. That is for locos. For rolling stock there are a lot more players, but I...

I'm a bit late the party but the MT boxes aren't so bad once you've done a few. :) I can confirm though that assembling the ones already on a truck is much harder than the ones intended for body-mounting. Taking the wheels out first helps but it's still a pain. If the 'lid' of the coupler...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ynt-ecY2dM My Burlington Northern freight, 30-40 cars from memory, goes through a reversing loop then chases another mixed freight along the mainline for a full circuit. Keep an eye on the mountainside a little bit after the 6min mark. The layout is still a...

I can't comment on the required prototypical model changes, but reduction gearing should be unnecessary! Electric motors generate full torque at 0RPM, so really the only pulling power limitation is traction.

They used E7 diesels in a GS livery it would seem (http://espee.railfan.net/golden-state.html), but this was very shortlived and they were repainted into the Daylight scheme only a couple of years later. Can't help you after that!

Update! Thanks again for all the replies, I ended up going with a Super Chief and will sell my PowerCab. The small saving I'd make by going with a lesser system or keeping both just didn't seem worth it. After reading the Digitrax manual cover-to-cover I'm finding that it's not so bad after all...

There are 3 established ways of consisting, but sadly the names are interchanged a lot between companies which makes things unnecessarily confusing. Regardless, here goes! Basic consist Multiple locos are given the same address. The controller is sending each command once, but multiple locos...

I had this linked to me elsewhere and thought I'd share it here. It's a documentary on Micro-Trains and details the steps they go though when producing rolling stock. Well worth viewing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejMbatOekTg

Note that not all containers are built equal! The containers that come with the Kato MAXI wellcars pictured above are 8' prototypes, however some others on offer (including by Kato) are 8'6" prototypes. The difference is noticable.

Not to mention it's more enjoyable! I was actually pleasantly surprised with the costs, as in my experience when you ask for stuff like this to be made you pay a premium if not ordering in extreme quantities. I did ask the foam supplier if the price would change if I ordered more and he said not...

More from me, the beginnings of a storage solution for my N scale collection- I posted a bit of a write-up on it in the N scale subforum for anyone interested in how it was done.

With my joining a club recently it's become increasingly obvious that moving all my rolling stock to & from individual jewel cases every week is a massive pain in the arse. As you may be aware it seems that people who design carry cases for model trains only bother with HO. I did find an ebay...

Rivet-counters please put down your pitchforks, at least one of those containers is bound to house a hobo or two so technically this IS a passenger train ;)

Looks good! Might I suggest though that when uploading to Youtube you ignore any image stabilization 'help' it tries to apply to your video. It will help if the camera is not supposed to be moving, but when panning around the scene it causes everything to warp and distort. :) Are you leaving...

I moved house recently and have just joined a local club with a pretty large N layout. I took my Camera Car with me lastnight, here's a shot from the resulting footage-