Jerome's Switcher Roster V 3.0

[tootnkumin]

Very cool Toot!
That train was just south of my old house, I missed it somehow.
I used to have a transfer caboose exactly like the one tacked next to the cando, wish I had kept it now.

We do those sorts of things, don't we. I wish I had got a couple of the ex SF C44-9W Warbonnets in BNSF logo, for a bit of interest variety. There's been some on the MRL tracks recently.

 

[wheeler1963]

Sorry Dude, meant to include the link: https://www.switchlinedecals.com/

Thanks Rick, ordered a set today.

 

[Alcomotive]

 

[wheeler1963]

Well, a coat of dullcoat, put the windows back in and we will call this ole gal complete. She's had a tough life.

 

[wheeler1963]

OK, we call this ole gal completed!!!

 

[tootnkumin]

OK, we call this ole gal completed!!!

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Is that the 'end of the line' to the left, there?

 

[wheeler1963]

Is that the 'end of the line' to the left, there?

Ray, no those are those flats I bought. This ole gal is getting a decoder next!! Remember you looked it up for me.

 

[tootnkumin]

MRL has scrapped locos that are not long out of rebuild and repaint.

 

[wheeler1963]

My next project. I bought it pretty much like this, we'll see what I can come up with.

 

[wheeler1963]

OK, new projects on the workbench.

1 Athearn Hustlers for Kit-bashing.
2 ALCO slug
3 Chicago Beltway shell. Had the drive, need parts, handrails and then weathering.

 

[wheeler1963]

Bought this shell off of eBay, figured it needed a good home. Still got to dull it down a bit.

 

[Rico]

Yikes, the boys in the shops won’t know what hit them!

 

[tootnkumin]

 

[Greg@mnrr]

Toot: Rail Link kit bashing?

Greg

 

[wheeler1963]

Yikes, the boys in the shops won’t know what hit them!

It'll just sit there in the yard as junk I think.

 

[wheeler1963]

OK, help me out here folks. I picked up this Stewart Hobbies Baldwin

DS-4-4-1000 at the train show in Raleigh this weekend. It looks brand new in the box, no wheel marks at all. Here's the kicker, I put it on my test track just to see what it would do. To my shock, a10% throttle, the lights came on, and it has SOUND!!! On DC!!?? Any ideas, I have not taken it apart yet to see what all is in it. And it add the cherry on the cake, it cost me $29!!!!

 

[Rico]

Sweet, nice surprise!
I think econami decoders operate on DC or DCC, I’m sure there are others.
A friend has a BLI loco here that has sound in DC or DCC also.
let us know what you find

 

[wheeler1963]

Sweet, nice surprise!
I think econami decoders operate on DC or DCC, I’m sure there are others.
A friend has a BLI loco here that has sound in DC or DCC also.
let us know what you find

DC/DCC sound. That is awesome!!

 

[tootnkumin]

DC/DCC sound. That is awesome!!

Every W/sound decoder these days is dual DC/DCC capable Jerome. The disadvantage with running them using DC is that when you bring them to a stop, so the sound stops as well (and any lights). To get a W/sound loco to get moving again requires advancing the throttle to about 6 volts input to the track. That gets the lights on and the startup sound sequence going. Increasing the V input gets it moving. It is also the reason, consisting DC only locos and DCC/sound locos is not possible, or advisable.
On the other hand, as I now recall you have mostly silent DC/DCC decoders in your locos, I'm not sure whether they will consist on DC either, they will on DCC though.

I'm not 'up' on Stewart, but from what I've gleaned, they may have had different brands of decoders at different times. BLI for a while made a 'Blueline' sub brand that had a DC/sound decoder in it, You had to piggy back a silent DCC decoder onto it, if you wanted to run it that way.

 

[wheeler1963]

Been a while since I've taken any time to build any trains. But I have been collecting the necessary parts to make a few Athearn Hustler Hybrids.