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    P2k gear issue. No not that one, completely different

    I'm look at the pic in reply 19 above. Look CAREFULLY at the truck. Look at the right-hand side frame. It's not "in" all the way. There's where you side-play is coming in. Take the truck OFF the locomotive -- all the way. You'll have to disconnect some wiring, too. Take it fully apart, then...
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    Quite the beast!!!!!!!!!

    If you want an engine that will last ... get an EMD. That thing must be approaching 70 years old...!
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    Running Bear's March 2024 Coffee Shop

    Jaz wrote above in #985: "We wish, why do you think trains derail on helix…" You could use the superelevated Kato Unitrack curved sections ... :cool:
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    Running Bear's March 2024 Coffee Shop

    Re the BNSF storage video in #502 above... Lots of gensets (a design and operational failure) and GE's. EMD's? Not very many. Why is that?
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    If you were to work for a railroad, which one would it be and what position?

    "what does a "fireman" do after 1959?" On the commuter trains from Danbury (CT) to New York City, the fireman kept the steam heat going in the winter. I must have lost a little bit of hearing going back in those FL-9's to check the boilers a few times each trip. In winter, there was also a...
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    Running Bear's March 2024 Coffee Shop

    Troy - Congrats on the new MacBook Pro. You may already know about MacRumors.com, but if you don't, that's the place to go for Mac questions. Forums are at forums.macrumors.com
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    New DCC layout, command station opinion requested.

    Freesco... I know that the z21 apps (both the new and old ones) support the Roco z21 hardware (of course), and also: - Digikeijs DR5000 (now out of production, but still show up now and then second-hand) - YaMoRC "YD7100" (not released yet, delayed in production due to chip shortage) - ZIMO (I...
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    What happened .

    Something tells me you ordered from a dodgy (fake?) site. Just be glad you get your $$$ back...
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    If you were to work for a railroad, which one would it be and what position?

    I hired out in 1979, one of the last to start out as a "fireman" on Conrail before they stopped hiring firemen in 1980 (and the craft largely disappeared). Got promoted, ran trains for Conrail, Amtrak, even a little on Metro-North (I also was one of the now-gone "forever firemen" on MN in 1983...
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    New DCC layout, command station opinion requested.

    Here's what the z21 app (the older one) looks like on a tablet, with 2 engine controls side-by-side:
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    New DCC layout, command station opinion requested.

    OP wrote: "I guess my intentions are to run the system via my iPad Pro or iPhone 14 with a suitably good app." Well, in that case, you should consider what is absolutely the best "app" out there: The FREE Roco z21 app. You can try this right now "in demo mode". Go to Apple's App Store Search...
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    What is the best locomotive

    Actually, for medium duty road and switching, "the best" engine in the Conrail era was the GP-38. Smooth runners, good pullers, reliable -- the epitome of "a good horse". I ran plenty of them in my years there (along with almost everything else they had). GP-40s were more often found on faster...
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    Running Bear's February 2024 Coffee Shop

    RE Old 97's graphic above in #972... It was 1983 or 84. I was on a Conrail job that used to run from Danbury, Connecticut, up the Harlem line to Wassaic, New York, back before Metro-North bought and rebuilt the line. A nice job that ran once or twice a week. I recall the conductor that day was...
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    Is DCC sound really required?

    My preference is dcc withOUT sound. I even have a couple of sound-equipped engines on which I turn the sound OFF when running them.
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    Running Bear's February 2024 Coffee Shop

    NorthBrit wrote: "I have a damn hacking cough. A PITA. Kept me awake the best part of the night." This works for me: I get Hall's or Ludens sugar-free cough drops. Don't know if they have them over there, but I'm sure there are equivalents. Then, I put one into my cheek at bedtime. Just let it...



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