First, I need to correct 2 typos in my original post of axle lengths, and the "Modify" option seems to have timed out. It should read: Axle...
Let’s put rolling stock brand names after each, as we find them, continuing this thread until we get a nice compendium. Axle lengths in N...
Let’s start this way. Fox Valley used to make the following axle lengths in N scale: 0.526” 0.540” 0.553” 0.563" 0.568” 0.672” 0.678” Let’s put...
First, the "truck tuner" would be the same for any truck, because it is only a cone shaped cutter that has a 40 degree tip angle for any truck....
The OP included a link to Bachmann trucks with knuckle couplers, not Rapidos. I think Kato's knuckle couplers "play OK" with Bachmann knuckle...
I see you improved on the control booth. I need to do the same with mine. Is that plastic windowless booth that comes standard on the Kato...
Back to the B&O EAs: If you don't want to deal with those beautiful brass versions on the not so great mechanisms, here is a 3D print you can use...
Any vertical angle in the rails joints needs to be small, otherwise the coupler on one car will lift over the coupler on the attached car when one...
You are correct. And now it is too late to change my typo. Thanks for posting the correct link address.
The two smooth sided dome cars on the lightweight Columbian were built by Pullman Standard in the late 1940s and delivered to B&O in 1949. They...
I use Kato switches, with the little snap on rectifier for a bunch of Kato controllers snapped together. That snap on rectifier has "17 V AC...
Regarding the B&O dome cars, there were 2 types. One was a smooth side with only flat glass in the dome, that was made for the last version of...
Rex, I suggest that you join the NCC-DCC@groups.io list for questions like this. I already posted a question about PowerCab clock options on...
The clock is mainly to act as a "fast clock" for compressed ops, but "fast" can be 1:1 time. Because the regular PowerCab has no internal power...
I would like to see the cars for the B&O Capitol Limited versions of the 1950s. There are some unusual cars in that, particularly the dome car,...
Well, that has not been my experience with sail boat electrical connections. Everything corrodes on a sailboat, if not soldered, sealed, or at...
I have never had any trouble with using Kato feeders for Unitrack, even though I usually don't put them as close together as the recommended...
The down side of doing things that way is that unscrupulous sellers are tempted to use sham bidder accounts to keep upping the price against a...
Or Proto 20.32. It is basically 15mm of model to the foot of prototype. There seem to be several model standards that have "gauges" that use that...
A couple of comments: 1. It is very important that any programming track that a loco can run onto from the layout gets set up so that the loco...
