logandsawman
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Headed home for the day, will check in tomorrow
Dave, the NCAA 2 time defending champion Women Hockey team ( the Badgers) play tomorrow at Ridder Arena on the U of M campus. Except for Covid and no spectators last year, the previous 6 WCHA conference championships we would be in Minneapolis this weekend. If the Badgers win Saturday we may drive over to the game PER my wife on Sunday! Glad to know the snowbanks are getting smaller. Minneapolis folks have always been very nice to us.Good afternoon,
It is up to 26° F. Sounds like we may be getting a gob of rain, snow, or slush. Not really sure which. Hopefully the whole thing will part over our County and we have dry weather. If you are going to wish, whish big!
McLeod - very cool photo of the moose
Willie - I read that the actual fuel consumption of the Electric is higher than gasoline. And costs more money. Something not advertised.
Justin - I have a GML walk around that hasn't disappointed. I am die hard DC.
Tom - WI - our snowbanks are shrinking as well!! Yippeee
Here is a photo from the old layout. This is the corner of the layout and the backdrop is curved. I carefully bent the hardboard and screwed it to the layout.
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I like the way this area turned out. There will be nothing like this on the new layout, I am moving on. Do still have the loco on the left.
more later, Dave LASM
Greg, the turbines were big, bigger then the Cab Forwards I had then to. I don’t remember a number if Scaletrains even said. My smallest is 32 and it worked fine but didn’t look to great. I did run it at a local modeler’s layout that had 42” as the smallest, they looked great there. Actually he is the guy who purchased all 3 of them, 2 museum and the 1 rivet counter. Gee, have not seen him since before Covid started in 3/2020.A man after my own heart....spending time in the train room is a goal of mine for the weekend!
No broadcast news in my train room. My background music when I work on projects is either the sound of a train running the mainline or a tape have of early diesel locomotives that I play. I have to do a massive job of putting away so much of the supplies, kits and locos I've purchased (usually via the web) over the last two years while the enduring the plague. Wife's orders! A friend of mine from high school spends time in his garage as his escape.
I want to run the new Scale Trains EMD SDL 39's since they have built-in "Stay Alive" capacitors, my first locomotives to have that feature. It seems like DCC or the hobby in general has new improvements every time I open a model railroad magazine. I believe "Stay Alive" technology may do away with powered frogs in the future.
Tom, those ST Turbines must of been huge. What was the recommended radius for the locomotive? Those are beautiful locomotives.
Looking at the photograph of the F&SM, I can't image the inventory and size of George's kits, scenery and accent parts. Just the amount of his paints in his inventory.
Greg
They'll still have the electric horns on em though.Those Harley Boys aren't going to like the "electric bikes"!
They won't be able to stop next to you and blow out your hearing aids with revving up the motor every 5 seconds!
...And the power to run kick-ass stereos with big speakers...They'll still have the electric horns on em though.
And that , is another example of why our once great country is turning into a great big pile of poo. God forbid someone else hears your horsepowers. lolSpeaking of which, I remember some models of the newer Mustangs had the engine sound electronically enhanced, and played through the car's stereo.
I have 4 maybe 5 of the Innovator 2000's, I like it better than the 3000, I didnt know they made a 3500. The 2000 wasnt quite so busy with all the gadgets on the throttle. We got some 20' tele cords replaced one end with a wall plug and we had long reach walk around cabs. Still using one in the main yard, all in all very good DC throttles.Well I see I made it to another Friday. Temps are going to be up this weekend for a change. Not sure what I'll be getting into if anything. Might be a good time to start building. Who knows? Probably not but at least it sounded good. In other train related news. Given it'll take a month or two for my DB150 to come back I reinstalled one of my walk around DC throttles to the layout. I was using my Tech 4 260 again. I set up an Alpine Innovator 3500. Not sure if any of you guys have even heard of it. I stumbled onto it quite a while back. By far one of the better DC walk around throttles I have. It hasn't disappointed me so far. My locomotives slow but don't stall over uneven track. So I guess it's a plus. Well I guess that sums everything up for me at the moment. I'll stop by later if when I get a chance. This is what the throttle looks like.View attachment 142023
I know Innovative Train Technology had the lower numbers. Found this out after some research. Alpine Division Scale Models purchased their throttle lineup and marketed them as the Innovator Line. I don't think they may have changed anything from ITTC. Could be wrong. Here's a picture of the box mine came in.I have 4 maybe 5 of the Innovator 2000's, I like it better than the 3000, I didnt know they made a 3500. The 2000 wasnt quite so busy with all the gadgets on the throttle. We got some 20' tele cords replaced one end with a wall plug and we had long reach walk around cabs. Still using one in the main yard, all in all very good DC throttles.
I know Innovative Train Technology had the lower numbers. Found this out after some research. Alpine Division Scale Models purchased their throttle lineup and marketed them as the Innovator Line. I don't think they may have changed anything from ITTC. Could be wrong. Here's a picture of the box mine came in.
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