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If you wanna know more, there are some books availlable about the rails of San Francisco. Arcadia Publishing has some books about the various SF railroads in the Bay Area in their Images of Rail line, I have Ocean Shore Railroad by Chris Hunter. Another good book is Southern Pacific in the Bay...

Hi green_elite, Josh, the big machines are a definetely TOO big for a rail car. The second set of whells that came with the front loader are a flat car load on it's own! And they have double the widths of a flat car! But it was great fun building them and they look great next to a track with...

Caltrain Most rail traffic in SF today is light rail and commuter. CALTRAIN

Hi folks, just to let you know, I'm still working on the challenge, but somehow I drifted a bit away. The pictures below are showing the results from drifting away from the challenge project.sign1 Getting those big decals on the shell was ...grmpffff! Took a lot of Micro Sol!!! New pictures of...

Hey Josh, I was sure you'll like them! I've lot's of Kibri construction equipment, they sell them for bargain prices on train show and it is great fun to build them. The three Komatsu machines are the biggest I have, the Terex dumpers are looking like midgets next to them. I bought them for my...

Cool, Thanks Miles. San Francisco has lots os rail history to discover. I stumbled across the Ocean Shore Railroad and it inspired me to do a "what if". Ocean Shore went bankrupt after only 25 years of serving the pacific coast south of San Francisco, so what if it has survived? A still...

Hi Josh, great pictures! Looks as if you are not only a truck lover, but construction machines too. May be you like these little machines, the Athearn Kennworth is to compare the size. All three are Kibri kits, but you realy need some space for them on the layout! Tobias

More from the "Kibri Shipbuilding Company". The tug got a new coat of paint at the shipyard and is now steaming back home through the brownish water of the "Table River". The crew is still working on minor details and the tug also lacks a name. Tobias :wave:

Finished my Amtrak P42 (sound installation and detailling), did some work on my challenge project, nearly finished the front part of a kitbashed pier building and talked my wife to visit the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg tomorow (monday). We have a day off and still haven't seen the...

The fire house got it's roof today. I used 600 grid sand paper, cut in stripes for the roof. The stone on the lower part of the building is a foto from the prototype, printed on self adhesive glossy ink jet film. Screwed up the first set of windows, not that easy to get the milky appeal of the...

Boats yes, harbour (still) no! Here're a few pictures of the coast guard cutter that will secure my harbour once it is build! It is based on a Kibri fire fighting boat and will get two 50cal in front of the deck house. As you can see, it is still at the ship building yard. Have three more in...

It's going forward, slow but steady! I added the some paint and the side walls. The styrene for the windows is also prepared. The windows on the prototype are "milky", so I can omit the interior on the upper level. The SFFD is trying out if it's engine fit in the "new" station. Now the station...

Did first part of the painting, new pics will follow as soon as it is dry. The windows will be clear styrene, the window frame painted on with a white paint pen. I'm going to use a foto of the prototype printed on self adhesive film for the polished stone panels on the lower part of the...

Thanks for posting the pic and the "how to". It's looking much easier than installing the Soundtraxx LC in an Athearn loco. Meanwhile I've downlaoded the ESU Loksound software, but didn't try it out yet. Hope your loco works and, more important, sounds well. Tobias

I voted for P2K! Overall Atlas is great and I'm a Atlas fan! I've one GP7 from Atlas (2000 run) and a late P2K GP7 (DCC ready). I never had any problems with my P2k's. Overall detailling is much better on the P2k, not only the lift rings.The rivet detail and paint job is better on the P2k...

Hi GEC, can you post pictures of your Loksound installation? I'm still "fighting" with my Soundtrax LC decoder. All these cables, ahhrghhh! I'm still not sure how to animate the ditch lights! Tobias

Hi MilesWestern, ESU's america website is loksound.com, go to the the download section for an overview of the available sounds. I think Loksound has the best sound quality, they record from the prototype. GEC, the price is the major problem on the Loksound. It's about €230 ($290) for a decoder...

As far as I know it should be possible to rearrange the sound files with the loksound software. With a little copy and paste it should not be that difficult. The 1044 is a kind of descendant from the RC-4. Or you use an own recording from the prototype. Just kidding! An ALP-46 would be easier...

If you get a loksound programmer you can use a european electric loco sound file as starting point and americanize it to fit the Alp-44 (Bell/Horn). The generic electric loco (prototype swiss Re460) or the austrian ÖBB 1044, both work the same way as the Alp-44 (Thyristor). Or the other way...

Hi, I've two QSI locos and just installed my first sound decoder (Soundtrax LC). And I really like it, BUT if you use these, you can only run the loco on DCC. BUT it's great to run the loco with sound. g_e_c have you tried out the cab for mounting the speaking? There's a Soundtrax LC with GE...