Many of the manufacturers have been doing this for several years, especially with DCC ready or factory decoder equipped power. Atlas and BLI are,...
The LL plastic frame FAs and FP-whatevers were excellent pullers. One unit could pull every piece of rolling stock that you owned up a fifty...
That explains it. I once bought something on FeePay that was in Atlanta. The seller used USPS t send it. It took a week to get out of the...
If it were the square "inverted pie plate", that is what you get in the J'n'J bag. If it were the round, you have two options, of which I am...
J'n'J Trains sold the steam generator detail parts for the RS-3 with the angled escape stack that goes up against the cab and the flat vent stack...
This turned out to be one of the problems. There was too much paint on the "vertical bar" that you referenced. Further, there was too much point...
There is nothing Atlas/Kato involved, here. The shell, according to Trove Staris a 2007 issue. It has Accumate couplers and a closed pilot. The...
The FeePay seller (which is Atlas, oddly enough) will not respond to my query on FeePay. For this reason, I am asking here. I bought an RS-1...
Which B-manns? Given the tight curves on your pike, I am guessing the mogul, ten wheeler or USRA 0-6-0. I have at least one of all of those and...
The search function is on the sfritz again, so I can not find the topic that I posted regarding discombobulating Peco turnouts. The title was...
One poster in particular had purchased many examples of IM power. A large number of them came apart due to zirmac rot. He notified IM; submitted...
The plastic goes brittle. I even started a topic on this board bout it. Correct........................ All of the above show these problems....
It is the plastic near the spring load on the points. It happens on both Insul nd Electro frog turnouts. The worst offenders are the "matchbook"...
The Peco does have the sprung points. You can have all of the contact that you like but if oxidation and dirt get in the way it is the same as a...
The Atlas Baldwin and the other Atlas whatever-it-is are alright s is some of the rolling stock. The Lima Reading 2-6-4T and RR FM and E-unit are...
Unpainted E-R Shark A unit with black gears. The vendor did not have a B-unit. It did require some customer supplied QC as the circuit board was...
If there is one ting that I hate bout Peco turnouts, it is their poor electrical continuity. The contacts where the points pivot/bend are not...
Both. The pike centers around a three way junction. Freight cars are interchanged there. Passenger service is mostly head end cars. Each train...
B&O Power 1. BLI USRA light Pacific 2. BLI USRA light mikado 3. E-R Sharks. (I assume that I get to keep an A and a B and count it as one.
If DCC and six or less drivers are the requirements, go with 1. B-mann 2-6-0 2. B-mann 4-6-0 3. MRC version of Model Power 2-6-0 4. MRC...
