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Ahhh, my ESU decoders arrived from Lombard Hobbies. I'll install one in the AC4400 that I just bought that's patched over to UP.

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Iron Horseman said:
I am so far behind in this thread again. I've got 3 new Athearn Genesis GP7s, a whole flock of grain hoppers, a pile of heavy weight passenger cars, can't remember if I posted the Proto E8s in Pennsy, several GG1s (trying to get one of each paint schemes), bunches of new ambroid craftsman kits, several Pennsy round top stock cars, an Atlas GN wide vision caboose, and that is just the stuff that goes on the track. Photo's forth coming.
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Catching up.... My last trip through Colorado Springs I just happen to catch Roy's Trains going out of business sale, so I stocked up as best as my wallet would allow.

I thought one of the best finds were these 4 train totes. I know have 6. That is 30 trays worth. When I take equipment to shows, putting each piece in and out of their boxes is always so time consuming where the most damage occurs. Now I have enough that I can store them in their travel case essentially "staged" for the shows. All together these will hold about whole 20 trains. When I go to the show I decide "Today I want ATSF train #69 or I want the Texas Chief". I can snag the bag that train is already in.
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Iron Horseman said:
I am so far behind in this thread again. I've got 3 new Athearn Genesis GP7s, a whole flock of grain hoppers, a pile of heavy weight passenger cars, can't remember if I posted the Proto E8s in Pennsy, several GG1s (trying to get one of each paint schemes), bunches of new ambroid craftsman kits, several Pennsy round top stock cars, an Atlas GN wide vision caboose, and that is just the stuff that goes on the track. Photo's forth coming.
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Catching up 2. And 2 stories. The Boulder Model Railroad Club has a monthly model contest. A couple months ago the subject was "rolling stock that carried live animals" ... not people. So my first thought was to enter a "horse car" used by Santa Fe for the transportation of racing thoroughbreds on passenger trains. Looked at my kit for that and decided not enough time. Second thought was to enter a car I had weathered for the Greeley Museum, so I was going to add a few details like scale stirrups and some brake gear. Decided that was not enough "work" to earn a win in the contests. Other thoughts were modify a Bachmann On3 car, fix up one of my G-gauge Bachmann circus cars, or wait what is this Pennsy round top K11 stock car? Prototype was made by modifying the older round top boxes. What a cool idea for a kit bash. So I began search for a round top box as a beginning point. Nope, guess what? Bowser has already made a really nice model of such a beast. Kitbashing it would be a waste of time. So I just bought the cool car and did not enter the contest.

Here it sits with my 2nd story. An Atlas GN wide vision caboose. I certainly don't model GN anymore. But at the Roys Trains going out of business sale it just sat there and called my name. A bright red caboose target of opportunity. Anyone know WHY the GN would have orange locomotives and red caboose? Gag me with a eyesore fork.

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hunslet040 said:
I have been looking for one of these for a long time and as a bonus came with 4 passenger cars at a good price.
Rivarossi NYC Dreyfuss Hudson with centipede tender.
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Probably will not be buying any more models for a while as I have spent my spare cash on this.

View attachment 1999561995 MGR V8 . Not exported to the US and most went to Japan.
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When I was in high school, a friend of mine had a new 1965 MG convertible. His was the British Racing Green color. The car in your post has a close (but newer) resemblance. And of course his had the 4 cylinder engine........no V8s then.
 


D&J RailRoad said:
just need a few coils to go with it and it will look great.
The plastic coils you can get from Walthers are hollow so you can add weight to them.
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I have maybe 16 extra coils from Tangent that I’m sure will fit. This car has good weight to it just by feel. I have not put it on a scale yet. The nice part about the hoods is I can add weight in there and no one will notice
 
TLOC said:
They are beautiful cars. How do they roll. As u know the 1st release were terrible rollers…
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I haven't run these yet. I will get a chance this weekend.

I did find on my first run cars that running them for quite a while in both CW and CCW did help some to free them up, but still not what I would expect from a $55.00 piece of rolling stock! I haven't tried the Micro-Mark truck tuner yet either.
 
migalyto said:
I haven't run these yet. I will get a chance this weekend.

I did find on my first run cars that running them for quite a while in both CW and CCW did help some to free them up, but still not what I would expect from a $55.00 piece of rolling stock! I haven't tried the Micro-Mark truck tuner yet either.
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I have done the tuner and added shims to the cars. Still disappointing as I like to finger push the cars to test how they roll and I get maybe 2’ to 3’ on the flat. I prefer they roll at least 5’ like every other car I own. I have cars that roll from one end of the paper mill lead to the other end and that’s 24’ flat
 
santafewillie said:
No new freight car goes on my layout without using the truck tuner first. It's part of my pre-inspection routine along with measuring wheel gauge, truck swing and coupler height etc.
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That is something I've been wondering about. How does one know when the truck tuner wears out? I mean it has a cutting edge, how long does that last before it gets dull and one is just spinning inside an axle well for nothing.
 
Iron Horseman said:
That is something I've been wondering about. How does one know when the truck tuner wears out? I mean it has a cutting edge, how long does that last before it gets dull and one is just spinning inside an axle well for nothing.
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I've had one of those trunk tuners for what seems like a couple decades now. I've prolly turned several hundred trucks with it and it still produces the shreds of plastic with little effort.
 


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