Locos - Rolling stock (general)

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Thoughts on The Fleet

Fri, 2014-07-04 10:03 — wp8thsub

In preparing for the next operating night, I often think about the makeup of the car fleet and the compromises I make to get the layout running.


San Pablo Valley RR #51 (Backdating a Spectrum 4-4-0)

Wed, 2014-07-02 14:19 — ChrisS

A new engine is close to joining the SPV roster - #51, the line's only standard gauge power.

 

 

#51 started as a Bachmann Spectrum 4-4-0 (the "Modern Baldwin" version).  Out of the box, she looked like this:

 

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Converting On30 to S?

Mon, 2014-06-30 08:40 — DKRickman

I had one of those oddball ideas today, and I'm almost afraid to even bring it up...

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A Couple of Critters

Fri, 2014-06-27 08:26 — Verne Niner

Here are some shots of two related projects I am working on...a powered tool car, and an unpowered rail truck that it can push. More to come!

One for the GN fans

Tue, 2014-06-24 18:22 — pschmidt700

Sorry for the poor quality -- shot from my Windows phone a bit before 6 a.m., north end of Balmer Yard. Someone at one of our car shops has been having fun! The well-ballasted tracks in the mid-foreground are Main 2 and Main 1 a few feet timetable west of CP 23rd Avenue.

BNSF 3-bay covered hopper with GN logo

Accumate in N scale!

Sun, 2014-06-22 12:06 — SP_CFNR
Hi folks, 
Contrary to popular opinion, I am getting rid of all my Microtrains couplers on my rolling stock and instead standardise on Accumates and McHenry as secondary choice (oh that pesky spring but a good looking coupler).
I detest the slinky effect, even in very short trains and find them generally unreliable and overengineered. 
 
I know a lot of folks are ditching the Accumate in favour of the MTL's so if anyone got any lying around, happy to take them off your hands!
 

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