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I think you might get more responses in the dcc forum. I'm not familiar with the digitrax stuff. Is the DCS 100 command station a Digitrax product? If so Digitrax might be able to advise you of product compatibility.

Sorry to disappoint you, GEC, I think the railroad started as a traction line with overhead wire, but they got rid of the overhead and switched to diesel. They just didn't bother changing the name. Josh, how far away do you consider "close?" I think the Modesto & Empire Traction line...

Almost 40 years ago I worked at the Kaiser Steel Eagle Mountain iron mine near Desert Center, Ca. A friend of mine was riding a horse when it was spooked by a rattle snake and he was bucked off onto the snake. The snake bit him. Previously his dad was working under the house and was bitten by...

Kato quality depends on what railroad you model. I have never seen a Kato in the Santa Fe blue & yellow warbonnet scheme with the correct yellow color. I have also never seen two different Kato models of the Santa Fe with the blue & yellow warbonnet scheme with the same color of yellow on both...

Looks good Dave. I wonder how it would work to mix white glue with crushed real dirt and put it on with something like a popsicle stick?

I like the way the coal load kind of sparkles like the real thing in the "sunlight."

Dave, you don't need to have a Merc in the yard for the guy to find parts for it. The mechanical parts would be the same as a Ford. I think the Merc might have had a bigger engine, but that would be strictly internal, externally the flathead would be identical. I can't remember if Ford was...

Dave, a question for those of us who are non-smokers. Is the foil from a stick of chewing gum different from cigarette foil?

Since the entire gear train is connected directly together from the worm gear all the way to the drivers including all of the gears in the gear box and the rods and valve gear (if any), binding anywhere in the system will cause the problem. If you can take off the body so that you can run it...

I haven't done it, but I've heard that a thin coat or two of Floquil Crystal Clear sprayed on top of the printed decal will seal the colors so that they won't run. I'm not familiar with the commuter cars you are modeling. Is the "disco band" more than just a solid color stripe? If it is...

After the golden spike ceremony, you need to build an ho scale museum case with glass top to display the golden spike. Then you need to build a suitable building, either a museum or corporate office to hold the display. Now you can't stop with only one display so you need to build enough tiny...

I think that Athearn only made 5 types of power trucks for the blue box locomotives and it may have been only 4. The 4 axle trucks for the DD40 are unique to that model. The 3 axle trucks for the Pa & Pb are unique to that model. The 3 axle trucks in all of Athearn's old blue box EMD Sd type...

An easy way to check to see if something is made of stainless steel or not is to test it with a magnet. Steel or iron is magnetic, stainless is not. The Atlas spikes are mild steel.

Do you have a brand name for the train? Also where do you live? 240v 50hz is the standard electrical hook up for Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. I think it may also be the standard for Japan and much of Asia, but it isn't compatible with North American power. If you are in North America...

Before I retired, I repaired a reefer unit on a trailer at the Yeager construction temporary batch plant at the Army Corp of Engineers Prado Damn project in Corona. I'm not sure if I'm remembering correctly if they used owner/operators for the cement mixer trucks that ran from the batch plant...

An interesting end for the Pa's & Pb's to me was the Santa Fe's use of them to power #11 & #12 the fast mail trains. I remember a picture in either Trains or Railroad & Railfan once of a bunch of Alco Pa's & Pb's pulling the mail train where they had what looked like 6 or 7 locomotives pulling...

Glad to hear from you again. Everytime I see a new post on this thread, I open it with some trepidation, but one of the great advantages of the internet to me is that we can make friends with people we have never met face to face from all over the world, and I count you as one who has enriched...

Looking forward to the next railroad. Sorry I couldn't hear the song. The last set of speakers I got with a computer was 3 or 4 computers ago and they have long since died and been tossed. I keep thinking I ought to get another set of speakers, but it hasn't happened yet.

Getting back to a question raised a few replies ago about running overhead electrics and conventional dc locomotives on the same track in dc, would it work to make sure all of your electric locomotives had their wheels sets insulated so that there was no short across the rails? Then have the...

Not really, we are still in the middle of a major house remodel. I hope we are finished in a month or 2, but right now my trains are in storage, and my wife and I are using the spare bedroom that is to become my modeling room as the "master" bedroom.