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:eek: Whoa.. That's something like 1100 feet per second... Can it really be that fast? I know the average muzzle velocity of an ACP jacketed hollow-point round coming out of a Colt .45 pistol is around 980 feet per second or so.

Yep, you can put a cutting disc in the dremel and use that to cut the rail. Just remember to wear eye protection, and be careful. A "runaway" dremel can cause some really serious lacerations. I think the Xuron cutter is a lot quicker than a dremel and a lot less dangerous, but the Dremel is a...

It makes a flush cut on one side.. Your average toolbox wire cutter or bolt cutter won't give you that nice clean flush cut-- It will be pinched somewhat, and you will have a devil of a time filing the cut flat afterwards. I think the Xuron rail nipper is a very handy tool to have if you are...

Wow, and I thought my buying binges are bad. :D It's that age-old "Do I REALLY need another locomotive?" dilemma/addiction/insanity. Pretty soon you will have to join a group called Locoholics Anonymous, just like most of us here in the Gauge. sign1 Seriously though, don't worry about...

Those look like some sweet mods Dan! Say, what did you use to strip the paint? That looks MUCH cleaner than any attempts I've ever made..

I read somewhere that a typical road lane would be 10-ft. wide... So a two-lane paved road would have a 20-ft.-wide roadway surface, plus 6-ft.-wide shoulders on each side. The conversion scale for HO is 3.5mm = 1 HO-scale foot, so you are looking at 21mm-wide shoulders and 35mm-wide lanes...

I don't know about the olden times, but modern day B-units are often mixed into consists with different loco types... For example, I've seen Bunsuf's cabless GP60B's mixed into consists of SD70MACs or C44-9Ws, etc.

Hey, you are not getting off the hook so easily. You have to show some befores-and-afters, you know. :D

Looks good! On the amount of effort you have put into it: The ashtray full of butts is particularly telling. :D

I was skeptical too about the Xuron cutter, until I saw one in action. That thing does make a clean cut on one side. The other side will be somewhat pinched, but all you need to do is make another cut to square that up. I bought one and it's now my favorite way of cutting rail. :thumb:

I did see the poll... Which I don't think is of much use actually, which is why I took the time to explain the balance required between weight and torque. If the loco is not DCC, the relationship between weight and torque still applies. DCC simply adds another parameter, and that is the...

Hey Green, Page 44 of your camera's manual, here: http://alpha02u.c-wss.com/inc/ApplServlet?SV=WWUCA900 :D Hope this helps!

Running two locos on one single DC power pack won't hurt anything. It's equivalent to two motors being wired to a power source in a parallel circuit arrangement. So don't worry, and have fun! :thumb:

Hmm... Sounds like you might need to turn on "Macro Zoom." Look for that in the manual and see how to turn it on if it hasn't been. Good luck!

Remember the pulling power of the locomotive is a balance between motor torque and the weight... Too much motor torque but not enough weight means you are going to get a lot of wheel slip, which means the locomotive can't pull very much. Too much weight but too little motor torque means the...

Woah, you probably don't want to use masking tape, because it's going to take A LOT of masking tape. :D If you can't get styrene, then use something else.. Balsa strips will do. 1/16" balsa strips are a bit less than 2mm thick, but I think it should be close enough. Or you can even grab a...

I got several techniques... Curbed roads If I am doing roads with sidewalks or curbs, I would build the curbs first out of stick styrene. Typical curbs would be about 6 inches wide and 6 inches taller than the road surface, so I would use something like .100"-square styrene strips to make the...

I have used stuff out of containers labeled "joint compound" and "drywall compound" and they both seem to work the same way (let dry and smooth out with a wet sponge), so for model railroading purposes I think they are the same. Then again, I'm not a contractor/construction worker so the...

Ever since CSX came into existance, more and more CSX stuff became available and less and less Chessie stuff can be found. :( Those yard switchers are getting harder and harder to find.. But at least the Geeps are still somewhat available. In addition to the Atlas GP38 I mentioned above, I...

LOL, problem is, I don't know what else to call them except "aerodynamic fairings." I'd call them "rabbit ears," but that'd probably **** off a few people. :D