After many years of running trains without sound I find that I can really do without it. I only have three with sound and usually only run them as a novelty when I have visitors. I wish I had a way to turn the sound off. The heavy mike I picked up from Terry is a really nice performing locomotive, but for me after a few laps around the main line, I find the sound can really get annoying. Maybe I'm just an old fart. View attachment 55043 For me performance is much more important.
Chet - I am no expert in DCC, but have you tried the F8 key on your throttle to turn off the sound? It works on my PowerCab.
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Classy colours indeed Chet, almost as classy as Milwaukee Road's....
After many years of running trains without sound I find that I can really do without it. I only have three with sound and usually only run them as a novelty when I have visitors. I wish I had a way to turn the sound off. The heavy mike I picked up from Terry is a really nice performing locomotive, but for me after a few laps around the main line, I find the sound can really get annoying. Maybe I'm just an old fart. View attachment 55043 For me performance is much more important.
Good evening. It's very windy, and 29.
SOMEthing is coming from China... Probably a picture of the item I ordered. Paypal still can't explain why I paid money to somebody, but somebody else in a different country got my money.
Chet and Milw 113: I agree on the B&O color scheme. Growing up, when I had a choice of watching B&O tri-color pulled by matching tri-color dieselsor PRR Red pulled by Black (actually DGLE) GG1s, I always chose B&O. When my Capitol Limited is complete, (After the diesels the Pulman Dome and Observation car are still coming), I will post photos of the test run.
Have to rethink my main line, not enough room (16') to do exactly what I want on the back wall. That's what is so nice about trying out the idea with sectional track first, before committing to a permanent layout.
After many years of running trains without sound I find that I can really do without it. I only have three with sound and usually only run them as a novelty when I have visitors. I wish I had a way to turn the sound off. The heavy mike I picked up from Terry is a really nice performing locomotive, but for me after a few laps around the main line, I find the sound can really get annoying. Maybe I'm just an old fart. View attachment 55043 For me performance is much more important.
Chet - I am no expert in DCC, but have you tried the F8 key on your throttle to turn off the sound? It works on my PowerCab.
Good Morning It is a clear and cold 25 degrees here in the Middletown Valley. I know this is 'normal' for this time of year but the very warm December sure didn't prepare us for it.
I've never believed in resolutions but my plans for the first part of the year is to get the first module of my railroad built. My better half is insisting that I get my office/library area cleaned up first so that is the project for this week.
Say David: Great looking scenes.]Good morning guys, 20 and heading for 30. Feels like spring, another week of mild weather forcast for this part of the state.
I build several white pines for the layout while waiting for the backdrop to arrive, worked on the technique for the lichen covering on the bark, took some photos and matched the color using "granite gray" and dabbing spots on the trunk:
Newly built trees added with new bark/lichen technique:
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"prototype", this group of trees is considered "second growth" trees and not old growth, they came in after the fire of 1918:
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David: Without getting into the engineering aspect, each switch (or turnout if you prefer), has a degree of curvature for the diverging route. That's true regardless of frog size, and it applies on model railroads and real railroads. In the model railroad setting, if you use a pure #4 switch, the diverting curvature is sharp, and you are restricted to short cars and engines. Atlas' #4 is really a 4.5, designed to match their 22" radius sectional curve. Higher frog numbers, have wider divergent curve equivalents. I'm really trying to determine the diverging curve of a # 5 switch, because a modern auto assembly plant was served by high cube box cars and multi-levels that were generally 80+' long. There is not enough room on the layout for a#6 switch in that location.
If you look at the photos of the real Ford plant, in my post, (WW2 era), the curves are very sharp, (the real sized railroad equivalent of 15" radius). One of the reasons the plat closed in 1959, was that Robert McNamara did not want to spend the Capital to modernize the plant infrastructure, even though the plant had access to seagoing, motor and rail transportation, something landlocked plant sites (like Mahwah, and Edison NJ) did not have.