It may take more than a weekend. P2K freight cars can be complex and you will lose a grab iron and break another. I don't remember if this kit had extras. I actually never finished mine since I switched eras after I started.My weekend is taken I think, never built on of these before, so should be fun.
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This thread would pertain to any Model Railroad related items you ordered and received for your MRR or other.
Likewise, one cannot live in Denver and not want to model ALL incarnations of the Ski Train. The old NP coachs pulled by GP units, or the F7 units with the PB steam car on streamlined cars, OR the last appearance of the inside bearing Talgo cars from (um the CN?). Anyway I ordered them about two years ago and the cars came in a year ago. Finally the locomotives arrived and got packed for the move. I unpacked them today.This thread would pertain to any Model Railroad related items you ordered and received for your MRR or other.
include: Picture, about it, review, reasons for obtaining.
The snow in the pics or the trains……lolVery very cool!
One can't live near Hutchinson Kansas and not have some way shape or form a model of the salt mine stuff. Since I saw the Morton Salt plant at Menards three years ago I decided I wanted to do it for the Christmas display. Still haven't gotten the plant. When I first saw it price was $98, and I hesitated. Went back to get it and it was gone. At the time I just said I'll wait until next year not realizing they were not a regular production thing and considered one time collectors items. Now on Ebay they are over $200. sigh.
For the rolling stock I did better. I scored the entire set of six for only $25 per car (less than new price). All different road numbers.
Sorry no review. They will stay in their boxes until next Christmas. Thinking a 3 track salt mine. That is pretty big in O-gauge.
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Yes, both, snow is its native habitat.The snow in the pics or the trains……lol
Yes.The snow in the pics or the trains……lol
they will all be replaced....Somethings wrong with the coupler
If it has a short how do you know it is running?I'm not sure how this motor is even running, but it does. Think someone needs a clean?
And I need to sort out a short it has between the chassis and the trucks
I test ran it, as the trucks rotate slightly to follow a curve, the trucks arc to the chassis, when I looked further, I found that if a truck touches the chassis, it shorts out.If it has a short how do you know it is running?
One side of the rail power is carried in the truck and transferred to the frame of the locomotive on their pivot points. So the trucks and frame are electrically hot. The other side of the power comes up from the trucks on those upside down "L" shaped pieces of metal. That is a friction transfer to the strip of metal that runs along the top.
looks like it has no pin point??? unless it's hidden by the axle on it's right.A couple things showed up today, first, an Athearn SD60 in the Oakway scheme. For the price, I was not expecting the upgrades since the last one I got (about 10 years ago). It now has some pilot detail, brake pipes on the trucks, a beacon, and windshield wipers. I'll update it about how it appeared in the mid 1990s. The beacon and the fan winterization hatch get removed. I'll remove the flash from the truck castings and paint them black and add MU hoses and some weathering. There is too much space between the numbers on the side so I'll fix that. The blue was a surprise. I like it as a blue but in incandescent light takes on a sort of purple hue. Hopefully it will fade down as well as the old ones did.
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I also got a set of replacement wheels but there a couple things that are not right. One of the problems is the wheelset at the bottom of the photo but not that the wheel is on crooked. It is straight in the package, just a photo artifact. It has a different problem.
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