Locos - Rolling stock (general)

Weighting an HO Athearn heavyweight

Mon, 2021-07-05 14:15 — Mark Mathu

I'm building an HO Athearn heavyweight observation kit to serve as a stand-in for a business car.  I'm putting the semblance of an interior in the car, so the metal plate weights which come with the kit won't fit.  In looking at ideas for mounting weights, I see two obvious possibilities:

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What's on Your Workbench - July 2021

Thu, 2021-07-01 05:06 — Eric H.

Half the year has gone by and we have seen many cool projects shared on these threads. Let's keep it rolling along with more shares from your latest workbench and layout projects!

Eric

 

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Improving Athearn RTR Loco Electrical Pick Up

Mon, 2021-06-14 17:48 — espeelark

I picked up a new/old-stock Athearn RTR SD40T-2 a few years back and only just now got around to installing a RailPro LM-3S receiver into it. Let me back up a bit and state that the loco ran just fine on straight DC-only power. Fast-forward to today: AFTER installing the RailPro receiver and soldering any/all connections in the loco, it ran incredibly erratic! It would run a bit, stop, start, run, stop, start, yadda, yadda. When standing still and just touching one of the trucks, it would lose power.

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WOW, freight car prices

Mon, 2021-06-07 06:16 — railandsail

I saw this posting on another forum and it brought to mind a question I had involving the latest pricing of individual freight cars in HO scale,

 

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Short Train

Sun, 2021-06-06 16:43 — DaveInTheHat

I made a short train out of some broken up junk.

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IAIS's 4th Sub - Kitbashed Arrowhead gons joining the roster

Tue, 2021-06-01 06:12 — IAISfan

While the majority of the switching on the 4th Sub will involve agriculture - covered hoppers and tank cars - there was also an interesting move related to 52' gondolas during my era that I'm looking forward to replicating.  There's a large steel recycler on the UP in Council Bluffs, Alter Metals, that shipped shredded steel east on the IAIS in IAIS-controlled, but TR- and HS-marked, gons.  These loads went to steel mills on the IC&E in Davenport, IA and on the NS in Elkhart, IN. 


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