The 60/40 Layout And Other Railway Related Things

[Marlin338MX]

Wow, sorry you had such a bad day. It makes me cringe when I read it.

 

[Smudge617]

Well, my day has gone well, kind of

Fitted the new Express point, a slight issue with it was that the nub for the tie bar was missing on one side, so I've moved the point motor, but all wired up and working I'm pleased to say.

Found an issue with another point, which, now I have a spare, I can replace, it's an old one which I knew I would have to replace at some point in time.

Found a couple of issues with my dwarf signals, two weren't working for some reason, found that's it's really helpful if you wire it to its chocolate block (Duh!) second one was wired up but got nothing, when tested it worked fine, so obviously a fault on the circuit somewhere, found the cause in the end tho'

My long-awaited Loco from the US arrived today.
An SD70ACe in Lease colours for Catapiller.

 

[Colbert]

Could you post a full image of your wonderful SD70ACe ? Thanks.

 

[migalyto]

Looks even better in person, the photos only did it slight justice!

 

[migalyto]

Could you post a full image of your wonderful SD70ACe ? Thanks.

A video of it in operation would be appreciated as well!

 

[Colbert]

A video of it in operation would be appreciated as well!

Yep !

 

[Smudge617]

A video of it in operation would be appreciated as well!

Yep !

I'll do one tomorrow when I get back from the Drs

 

[Smudge617]

I did a size comparison between the SD70 and my OO scale class 37, the SD70 is about 1/2" longer, the same height, but the class 37 is heavier.

By request, a few more of the SD70.

 

[Colbert]

Very interesting. But... American diesel is H0 scale and British diesel is 00 gauge. Not exactly the same scale...

 

[Smudge617]

Very interesting. But... American diesel is H0 scale and British diesel is 00 gauge. Not exactly the same scale...

That's the point, despite the scale difference it's hard to tell, you could easily put OO scale wagons behind your locos and few could tell.

 

[Smudge617]

Video as requested.

SD70ACe Lease CAT.mp4

 

[Colbert]

Thanks for the video. The curves seem a little tight for this diesel.
The famous “Hand of God” also appears in this video.

 

[Rico]

That's it, I'm going back to bed, what a BS of a day.

Yeah I have those as well!
Best thing is walk away and come back with a fresh mind and a “new view”. Quite often you’ll see things differently and maybe with better ideas.

 

[Smudge617]

Finally made a start on the passenger cars, added the "carpet" and tried the seating arrangement before painting them.

Got these painted, looked for the figures I want to install, and remembered I hadn't ordered them yet, Duh! so I'll put these to one side for the time being, I've got two more to do anyway.

 

[migalyto]

Finally made a start on the passenger cars, added the "carpet" and tried the seating arrangement before painting them.

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Got these painted, looked for the figures I want to install, and remembered I hadn't ordered them yet, Duh! so I'll put these to one side for the time being, I've got two more to do anyway.

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Those are going to be really well detailed interiors.

 

[Smudge617]

Those are going to be really well detailed interiors.

Thanks, I've three cars, each will have a different coloured interior, the seating I got from the Palace Car Company

 

[Smudge617]

Although I'm not a fan of BLI or CSX this might be worth a punt on eBay.

 

[migalyto]

Although I'm not a fan of BLI or CSX this might be worth a punt on eBay.

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Is that Paragon3, or 4 sound?

If its 4, haven't heard as much negativity with that series of decoder. If it were 3 then I wouldn't touch it, unless the price is great, and your going to eventually put your own sound decoder in when the magic smoke lets go.

 

[Smudge617]

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Is that Paragon3, or 4 sound?

If its 4, haven't heard as much negativity with that series of decoder. If it were 3 then I wouldn't touch it, unless the price is great, and your going to eventually put your own sound decoder in when the magic smoke lets go.

It's a couple of years old, so I assume it's Paragon3, think I had better ask.

 

[Smudge617]

Is that Paragon3, or 4 sound?

If its 4, haven't heard as much negativity with that series of decoder. If it were 3 then I wouldn't touch it, unless the price is great, and your going to eventually put your own sound decoder in when the magic smoke lets go.

Seems it's QSI sound decoder, so that's pre 2007, a very old run then.