F units poking through the weeds at Troup Have a great weekend everyone, and those of you in Southern Alberta and the East Kootenays affected by the flooding, take care! md
I have an announcement to make... PCM DELIVERED!!!!!! Either that or I found a Key Imports model on eBay. :teeth: Instead of installing the entrance to the passenger terminal throat as I had planned, I burned all of my time playing with rolling stock. I bought, received, and decoderized the M1, and spent quite a bit of time cleaning, lubing, and breaking her in. She's not quite the Swiss watch that the T1 is, but there's definite potential. She can pull about 36 cars (begrudgingly, 30 seems to be the comfortable limit) with the TT axel installed. Pickup is a little spotty, and that tender is super unforgiving of less than perfect trackwork. Definitely some tweaking to be done. Also pictured there are my other two projects for the week. I installed a decoder in my NJI MPB54 and took it for a spin with the Bachmann shortie MP54 conversions that I bought from Hiroe. Commuter service has come to the Pennsy! Finally, I took the time to install MicroTrains couplers on my decoderized Tomix track cleaner. It, along with the pair of Aztec cars that I took delivery of, completed several laps of the layout. The Tomix car vacuumed up quite a bit of detritus. The Aztec cars, equipped with the canvas pads and running dry, were less than stellar performers. More work to be done on the track cleaning train...
Maine Central's RS-11 #802 has been out and about. It's an Atlas with Kato drive. I'm going to send her away to a friend for conversion to DCC and hopefully some number boards as well. Mike
Mark dance: Nice woods you have modeled there. Good trees, etc. Larry's Truck and Electric (LTEX) lease unit passes Newell Steel while on switching duties.
Some progress on my creosote treatment plant. I saved much of this when I dismantled my East Texas piney woods layout, except the removal tore up the narrow gauge tramway tracks in the base of the retort unit. Doesn't fit my Galveston seaport layout now under construction so I am rehabilitating and upgrading the scene to sell it off. (Shameless commercial plug) Photos unfortunately and/or fortunately show me some touchups and fixes
From a week ago. We built some T Trak corner module at Rail Camp at the museum for something different. Makes for an unusual layout for a change.
Here's a water tank I started tonight. I'm trying to scratchbuild all the structures on my layout so here we go.
