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The best price I've seen on-line for the NMDOT F59PHIs used on the New Mexico Railrunner would be at M.B. Klein's-- $40 apiece: http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ATH26291 http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ATH26292 I remember seeing the...

When I was younger, I've been to the Disneyland at Anaheim a couple times... Main Street USA at Disneyland was particularly interesting-- The main concourse was paved asphalt, but with trolley tracks set into the pavement. Very neat. Some of the other public areas have concrete walkpaths...

YmeBP: Heck, just buy another Athearn Superweight F7 and convert that to clean your tracks. It's cheap, and it'll be much easier. :D I would grab a dummy (i.e. non-motorized) Superweight F7B, and use the four center-tank motor mounting holes to mount a masonite pad to be dragged across the...

Good news! It does not look like a pancake motor. Which means it might have some hope yet. Bad news... Lack of all-wheel-drive is going to limit how far we can fix the problem. Ok, so here is the diagnostics checklist: - If the problem you are getting is no wheel movement (the wheels just...

That's easy, assuming you will be running just one train... You will want to wire each roundhouse track off a main power bus wire (coming from the power pack). Just splice a simple on-off switch to the feeder wires coming off the main power bus wire to each roundhouse track. That way you can...

Not your typical graffiti artist, that kid.. He was from a middle-class Jewish family in Queens and was supposedly doing well in school. WTF was he doing messing around on the Long Island Railroad main line? It's a super-busy line, with an EMU train screaming by at 70+ MPH every 5 minutes...

Do a search at Lowe's for item #15348. :D

Ahhh... I think I know the engine you are talking about... Is this the one? Just 4 wheels, right? If that's the engine in question, yes it does tend to spin its drive wheels a lot, but not because of weight. It's already jammed to the gills with weights-- It has a lead block in the...

Sounds to me like you got the ones that has the coupler mount tab at the right height. As Jim says, the Kadee #5s should work on your loco. Give it a shot. :thumb:

Athearn's SD40-2s have several different vintages... Mine are the old Blue-Box SD40-2s with the coupler mounting tab positioned too low, and they required underset #47 Kadee couplers. I had to drill #50 holes on the coupler-mounting tabs and tap them for 2-56 screws to mount the Kadee #47s...

It's a pancake motored engine, right? If it is, maybe it's missing its rubber traction tires. On really old pancake motored locos, the rubber traction tires tend to just dry-rot right off, leaving just the bare metal wheel underneath. Due to the shoddiness of the mechanism's design, it just...

Like Play-Doh, I also used various glues to fix roadbed to plywood or foam.. It's a tried-and-true method. But lately I have been experimenting with latex caulking after hearing lots of guys having good results with it here on the Gauge.. Last week I picked up a tube of Dap latex caulk, laid a...

You have to cut the longer rail.. That's easy to do though. You can use either a saw of some sort (razor saw or hacksaw), a cutting disk in a dremel rotary tool, or (my favorite) Xuron rail nippers. :thumb:

LOL, actually that was the only decent photo of your loco (the only one that wasn't out-of-focus and fuzzy). :D Anyway, a tip.. Either take the photo at a longer distance so it's not so out of focus, or make sure to enable Macro Zoom for closeups. You can also use an image processing...

On road width... Typical road lanes are 10 feet wide if I remember right.. So one lane would translate to 35mm wide for HO (3.5mm = 1 HO-scale foot). On cheap ground cover... I remember someone on the Gauge had posted an article in the Academy section for shredding up bedding foam (the...

Heya, - Cork roadbed are sold in halves because they are more flexible (easier to bend to a curvature) that way. - Yes, you will need to cut flex-track to get them to fit. Flex-track is very easy to cut-- Just use a pair of Xuron rail nippers. It will give you a flush cut which only...

I think he meant an EMD SD70ACe locomotive. Big mutha of an engine.

Hiscopilot: I think you have one of those infamous pancake motored locos inflicted upon you. The description you gave sounded exactly like how those pieces of crap ran. Pancake-motored locos were indeed cheap, shoddily built and poorly-designed. It has the motor contained in one single truck...

SWEET!! Looking forward to railfanning your layout once you got the scenery put in!

Cork is a good noise-deadener. If you just lay track on the bare plywood, the plywood acts like a taut drumhead and amplifies the rumbling noise from the train. It gets loud. Cork also anchors track nails pretty good, which means you can use nails to temporarily fix the track to the cork in...