Hi everyone,

I have a multi part question... I am primarily modeling 1954 but I have set my railroad up to change for multiple eras. I am now looking to 1969. My railroad is the GN and I am familiar with their changes in the 1960's, "circus cars, glacier green, and big sky blue" but I am less familiar with rolling stock changes around the nation at the same time. The GN was acquiring covered hoppers but the vast majority of their fleet was 55% boxcars and they were one of the few railroads making good money during this time. My questions are as follows.

The big exhibition in this area is the Annual OK City show held every December. While I was there last year I entered the Broadway Limited Models raffle and, you guessed it, I won!

My prize was a beautiful Pennsylvania Railroad L1s Class 2-8-2. Such Detail and Great sound too!

Luckily I am a Pennsy modeler albeit a late '67 era version, I guess I can run a nostalgia train!

U couple of Pix:-

Finally got around to finishing my On30 Bachmann 4-4-0 American. #100 represents one of the 2 oldest engines on the MSR&N and is actually the smallest. Once again, as with the 12 spot, she has the short smoke box and Pancake stack, as well as a wooden cab and box style headlight. I added an air resevoir to the rear tender deck and the appropriate plumbing and a cord wood load indicating that "Old Hundred" is a wood burner. The name on the cab side is "MONTEZUMA" for the main terminal of the railroad but the crews all call her "Old Hundred" affectionately. 

This little lokie is relegated to use on the Local Mail run or switching duties around the 9th Street Yard in Montezuma, although still a good steamer, "Old Hundred" is small and light so not much more can she handle. 

She was the first locomotive on the original railroad, the Montezuma & Snake River Railway Co. as their #100 and retained that number when Northstar Mining bought controlling interest in the Railway, renaming it the Montezuma, Snake River & Northstar Railroad. All other locomotives were renumbered into class numbering and acquired motive power filled out those classifications as time and cash allowed, i.e.; #12 is a Mogul 2-6-0 and is in its class as a 10-19 number. Only #100 is in a class by itself. 

Well....that's my story and I'm sticking to it. 

GW

I am in N scale and have one of the beautiful Kato 4-8-4 FEF steam engine which I bought in standard DC but later I converted it to DCC by installing a P&P decoder.

I have seen some FEFs in YouTube converted to sound and the ones I liked best are those with LokSound decoders.

I have successfully converted some "no sound-ready” steam engines to sound buy never with a LokSound. I would like now to install one of these in my N scale Kato 4-8-4 but it has been hard to me to determine which item number should be the correct sound decoder.