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what is the main difference between the 1200 and 1500? do you have pics of yours? if life like makes a CSX road name..or something I like, I will go wtih 2 powered units of those.. im not thrilled of having a dummy unit, with no cab... on the concor.. and from what I have seen in pictures...

wow I am .02 cents richer.. thanks, I will prolly go with your advice.. ;)

cool.. looks like alot of companys are going with rebuild old Gp30s or around there.. I live in southern california incase u wanted a location =) on another note.. the place I lived at before this one.. they used the SW1200 looking switcher, they had cool sounding engines too.. kind of...

most switchers arnt in service anymore.. yards now.. mostly, use GP30's or 2 , 2axel engines.. the local yard near my house.. uses two of them yellow\blue santa fe Gp30s with a red ATSF caboose =) I would say its all up to you in what you want to use... if you check out ebay, they have...

do you have any pictures of them on your layout? I would love to see how they look on the track! I went with the newest phase P42 like the acela .. it does not match :( but in my area, thats how I normally see them.. what phase are your P42's? if you cant provide pix

okay , I had a sucsessful run id like to share with you guys.. I have a 2ft coffee table I was testing on.. and with really tight radius bachman track.. my cars, even at 85% throttle stayed on the track!! so I guess I am going to plan a dog bone type layout.. with hidden, under the...

hey.. I dont mean to jack your thread.. but since you live in europe .. I think I might! hehe... anyways.. I am doing a modern style layout.. and hte problem is.. americans are mostly 50's era! they make new engines etc.. but no new style buildings.. do you have access to modern...

ahh thanks for the welcome! I am only 23 and still living with mommy and daddy.. but if I lived on my own. I wouldnt be able to afford a layout hehe.. anyways.. I have 2 10ft x 10ft rooms , and a possible garage, I might have to get rid of my project car.. I will draw up some plans tho...

I feel really stupid.. im on my 3rd post in under 5min haha OKAY.. I think I figured something out.. I could go with a Smaller, but longer skinny layout, with long streight runs.. and just make my loops under moutains, with a tight radious, just enough that my superliners and bombadier...

hey rich I really like that layout.. what are hte demensions in Feet? I think you just solved my wonder, in what style of layout I want to do..

oh ya I forgot.. I want to be able to run 2 trains on it at once w\o having conflict of other trains.. 1 commuter rail and 1 freight, with some action going on in the yard.. I will be going DCC.. I saw someones track plans in the thread above this one in the contest.. the first one I...

GRRR :mad: its been a week and I have spent over 500$ in cars + engines and maybe 200$ in buildings and track... and I still cant choose a layout that I want to go with!! I have this Atlas "NINE N scale railroads" and I dont like any of them.. I want to either go with a 3ft x 6ft or 4ft...

simply put fred, thanks :cool: I will have to bookmark that DCC page and read over it one night..

wow looks good! cant wait to see future progress =)

ahh yes.. I will most def have to convert the couples as soon as I get the unit.. I dont know if I mentioned that I compaired the Atlas red\silver Santa Fe unit VS. the Bachmann unit of the same paint color.. they were REALLY close in details.. I would choose an atlas over bachmann...

hmm... well with your quote of decoders getting cheaper.. I guess I could waite.. my idea seems to sound more trouble then its worth :cry: hehe im not completly sure how DCC works yet.. but in my 4 engine lashup, all with decoders.. could you explain how I would send code to...

well.. hopefully some of u guys can help me out.. I spotted powered and non powered set of switchers on ebay.. with the CSX roadname to go along with my new layout... they are only 40$ buy it now.. I thought it was a good deal..but it looks like thats the going price for these 2 units...

ok.. I plan to go DCC with my new layout. I mean 30$ an engine or so.. is not that bad of a price.. but it starts getting $$$$$$ if you have 4 engines as a set... so I am guessing you need 4 DCC's or whatever, for each engine.. my idea is to have only 1 DCC in the main engine.. then...

wow thank you for your guys input.. I went to the local hobby store and looked at the red and silver spectrum vs the atlas of the same color.. BUT the hobby store had the damn spectrum priced at 100$$$$$ and the atlas and kato were at around 75$ or so.. on ebay I see them going for buy it...

Bachmann Spectrum vs. Kato & Atlas (new pics) well I spotted a nice Bachmann spectrum engine on Ebay for a pretty cheap price.. about half the cost of a Kato unit.. I was just wondering if anyone has had experiance with both engines? I am building my first N scale layout.. and was planning on...