A couple of the B-Mann 70 tonners. Very nice locomotives.One is bloody nose. The other will be Black/silver with orange stripes on the sill. Have a good one, Wolf
It was a toss up for me between the G Bush an the MoPac, the MoPacs paint scheme an the fact I live here was what won me over to it. Maybe I can get the Bush loco later on, it is a nice looking one also. I wonder what a Nancy Pelosi loco would look like....hahahahaha
One of my clubmates just recently got the CNW and the D&RGW heritage units. They look really sweet pulling freight around the club layout.
no steamers, no sound decoders. approx 20 tcs , the rest is digitrax. most are drop-in. however, there are some tcs cn-gp and m1 on order.
KATO GEVO Dcc/Sound Twin Speakers This is a Kato CP GEVO which I have stripped, repainted in the correct CP colour, detailed and renumbered as #8758 (I still have a day or two of work before I can show the shell). But for now, here are the workings: Fuel tank milled, Soundtraxx 13 mm speaker added, sealed edges with silicone caulk to make a baffle, MRC 1644-2 decoder with OEM speaker left in situ, both speakers wired in series. The MRC 10mm speaker is 32 ohms, the Soundtraxx 13mm is 8 ohms, in series they are 40 ohms, so the sound output is a bit quieter, but the sound is cleaner, more "musical", the bass is definitely better, and the amp is less stressed and will run cooler. If I wire them in parallel, I think the combination works out to 6.4 ohms, and I'd be worried about blowing the amp. The sound would be much louder though. I'd like to hear if anyone tried parallel speaker installs with these decoders. The OEM LED has been swapped for a Richmond Controls Sunny White so there should be good headlight/ditchlight intensity. The trucks, tank and undersill piece have been "shadow painted" to bring out detail. A little bit of frame filing was needed to get the decoder to sit flat and without tension on the frame, but I accept that as part of the basic install. There are different thicknesses of decoder boards and even the Kato frame had casting burrs and imperfections that caused trouble in fitting. I enjoy these little challenges now. I'd been trying to describe the red paint the modern Kato N scale engines have been painted in since the SD90MAC and a friend of mine came up with the best line: "an underripe tomato". That's all you can say when you compare it to the deep rich candy apple red it's supposed to be. I hope to get the whole project together in a couple of days. In the meantime, in between final finish coats and weathering, I'll be testing the sounds and running qualities. I'm quite pleased so far. Richard.
I couldn't Resist: The store I work for had them. At 30% off how could I pass them up. It even has steam.
