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Looks prototypical to me.....nice detailing!!!

A lump of coal,, and it wasn't even good hard anthracite...Guess I been a BBBaaaaaDDDD boy.

Them stokers filtered the coal dust out with their cigarettes. Just like I have to do when I have to work in New York City. They fuss at me up there for smoking, but it's the only way I can breath their air up there.(:

No arguement from this section of the bleachers. I'm a novice myself. I just related my own experience. I figure that if I had kept fooling with it long enough, I could have gotten it to work. I just don't figure that it is worth all the extra work and grief to do so. The damage to locos and...

I think my locos having been playing with the model F-14 while I'm asleep. They sure think that they can fly.

Stay with the same code track through out the layout. I mixed codes when I first started the layout out of ignorance, and ended up ripping up a bunch of it and changing to all the same code. The jump, or bump, where the track changes code will cause you nothing but grief. I tried filing to get...

DirectTV showing is on channel 277 at 21:00

First possiblility I can think of is that the decoder could have been bad. Especially if it was a plug in decoder. If you plug them in backwards, the train just runs backwards. Second possibilty is that the decoder did not have a high enough amperage rating for the loco. Third possibilty. I...

Anyone catching the train shows on DirectTV channel 379 late at night? They had a good one at midnight last night. A cab ride in a steam passenger train. Sure wish I could of been there for real!!

Anyone looking to put a decoder in a Bachman Spectrum 0-4-0 Porter, all I can say is don't waste your money. The Porters(at least the older ones, not DCC ready, are junk. I've purchased two of them. Both were poor runners to start with. Both have quit working within a short time. The wiper...

I already have quite a bit of grade before the gap, with a short flat. I wish the drop was only 6". It's more like 5 1/2'. The loco didn't have any cars and went about three feet out before it hit the deck. Thank goodness for carpeting!! The drop-in is across the door in my RV, right over the...

I finally got around to putting a decoder in the Mogul. The installation turned out much easier than I thought it would. Instead of putting the decoder in the tender, I ended up double sided taping it inside the roof of the cab. I took a dremel and gound a small hole in the top of the boiler...

The speaker I'm using is the one that came attached to the decoder. It is 1 1/8" diameter and has a small rounded encloser.

I definitely have to agree with the "MRC or nothing". After running a loco with sound, running one without is just not the same. All my locos are going to have sound after running one with it. Only 2 of the whistles are available with the Prodigy controller. The MRC decoder has several other...

I just bought an MRC 1627 Steam sound decoder. I have a couple of Shays that I have ordered Soundtrac Shay sound decoders for, and saw the MRC on the shelf. I bought the MRC figureing to put in my 2-6-0 Mogul. Of course, since the Shay has a readily accessible DCC plug I plugged the decoder...

I made a really neat purchase today... Went to Radio Shack looking for something that I couldn't live without. They had a Swann Wireless Security Camera, called the MicroCam II. The camera is about the size of a quarter. It uses a 9 volt battery. Has a stand that is about an inch tall. I put it...

I've ended up getting the decoder installed. As you said, it was a royal pain in the caboose. Mine doesn't have any figures in it. After finally getting it apart, I find there is only one wire going to the motor. The second contact sticks up through the gear train box underneath the motor. I...

I'm looking for information on the conversions of steam locos from coal or wood to oil fireing. 1. Did they add tanks where the coal or wood had gone? 2. What did the oiling stations look like? 3. Were there any changes to the outward appearance of the locos? 4. Did the 0-4-0 and 0-4-2 Porters...

Are there any other brand names for homasote. Nobody at the lumber yards around here seem to have ever heard of it, or know what it is. Maybe I aught to try someplace else besides Home Depot. lol!

Has anyone done a decoder installation in a Bachman Spectrum 0-4-0 Porter? I have a TCS M1-P decoder to install in the loco. I am wondering if anyone has pics of the disasembly and installation of a decoder in the loco. I haven't as yet figured out even how to take the loco apart to get at the...