For those that are going to the convention I would suggest that you take the tour of the N scale layouts. Jason Smith in Tomball has an...
Karl, You didn't say how old these units are. All of the above suggestions are more than appropriate. I would take the body off and just look at...
If you are staying on the south side or downtown of Houston, I certainly agree with the listed choices. But if you are on the North by...
After reading the above posts, I checked my 4 loco fleet of N Scale H15/16-44's. For what its worth: 1 TCS AMD1 2 TCS AMD4 1 NCE N12A0 The...
Ben, They do not require removing any bumps. They do however suggest that you remove or trim some of the plastic from the area of the motor...
Lowen, The Model Power 2-8-2 I had was a real slow runner all the time. Even with the decoder I was unable to make it go reasonablely fast....
Lownen What I can say is that sometimes decoders, for what ever reason, decide to do weird stuff. You didnt say whether or not you tried my...
Lowen, What DCC system are you using? What decoders are you using? Are the decoders the Lenz/Atlas decoders that came with the H16's. In any...
If it is a Digitrax decoder make CV8 = 8. That will reset the decoder to factory defaults.
There are two things that I know of that will cause this problem. The first is the address of that particular loco is on two different throttles....
Just to help out: get the Kapton Tape, if you go to DCC you will use a bunch of it. The Sprooooooooooong is completely normal Even though...
Jim, Hemi Thank You very Much, that was a great help. Regards Richard
I seem to remember photos of PA's in black paint. Unfortunately I have not been able to locate them. I have several undec PA's and thought that it...
Kadee shows them on their web site as the #708 for HOn3 and N scale. Richard Barter
Has anyone changed out the trucks on the Centralia/Intermountain Passenger cars? Mine don't seem to run straight down the track, actually the...
Owen, Pitfalls Be sure when you take the RDC apart you understand how to put the copper contact strips back together the way they were. If...
You need to call the "One Man Band" before 1:00pm Eastern, He goes out front to work the retail center. Even before that he's hard to get ahold...
Ben, It might be helpful to know what kind of DCC system you are using. Further the directions for that decoder is to apply the kapton tape only...
Thanks to all for the responces. I did call Model Power and they are out of the traction tires with no known date for getting more. I called...
I just picked one of the locos, and vaguely remember some posts regarding a traction tire to help the pulling capacity. were these avaliable from...
