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Cadillac Ranch Update Having taken some time off work, and after negotiations with the Controller of Thought, Word, Deed and Finance (especially Finance), further progress has been made on the Ranch. The roundhouse now has walls and doors, which meant lifting and re-laying the approach tracks...

Thank you - I'll have to order them and get the thing running - as it's a MEC loco it's got some significance for my steam/transition-era layout.

NWSL Gears Having just acquired a second example, I found that the gears are meshing only infrequently. Do you have the NWSL part numbers for the replacement gears? Thanks

I think diburning is close - an Austrian motor would almost certainly be made for Atlas by Roco, the chassis could be Kato and the trucks from Life-like? I've got a CNJ ALCo C420/424 with an Austrian motor (not, however, a Roco one) and chassis, and a chassis for something or other that...

Not a problem - but the Panama Canal's a shipping thing, not a railroad thing...

Further progress(?) The final two roundhouse roads are in place, one with an inspection pit, but not yet wired up. The first steam loco ran onto, and back off the turntable: a PFM DRGS class P44 Pacific and it really does look the part. My brass DD40AX also made its way onto the turntable - it...

Cadillac Ranch goes live At approximately 19:50 hours electrical continuity was established on the roundhouse roads; five minutes later power was established to the turntable and roads and a Cadillac made its way from one of the roundhouse roads on to the turntable! Several minutes of proving...

I've got a couple of Flares - Athearn, Hallmark (unfortunately numbered as an SD40 by the gentleman who painted it, and there's only 1 example I can renumber it to without having to redo the entire nose) and an RPP that'll be done as the Daylight one - as you well know, Mr. Bucknall. It'll be a...

The kit's Heljan's, which is marketed by Walthers in the U.S., motorized and not indexed like the Fleischmann ones, so you can lay tracks virtually all the way round it, subject only to the clash of ties as the tracks converge. There are a couple more EsPee Cadillacs hiding in boxes, plus...

Why not? "Too much of a good thing is not enough". I don't know where the quote originated, but it sums up my stable(collection?): New England-biased with Maine Central, Boston & Maine and Bangor & Aroostoock power and rolling stock, EsPee and DRGW from the West Coast, plus DMIR and various...

Finally, after too many years of inaction, baseboards have been assembled and fitted to the structure of the house. There's a Heljan(Walthers) 90foot turntable and two Fleischmann Roundhouses plus some flexitrack and some of the Cadillacs have had their first airing in months. 4 EsPee examples -...

If you had to ask, you were going to do it regardless........If you were unsure you'd not have posed the question, but put the dratted thing in the spares box.

Who are these people - Bachmann's up-range division? Intermountain's baby Boat was due LAST September (2007), then this January - I was promised one as a birthday present:thumb:, but they're now talking about Summer 2008. I'll believe in its existence when I actually see one, in its box, in a...

I've just come across this thread, via Google, and thought I'd post to it. I've got 2 Lionel examples - one started out as a SOO Line unit and now wears MEC titles as the 401, while the other is currently carrying CP Rail "PacMan" titles and will be repainted as MEC 411. (Yes, I know MEC didn't...

Here's an alternative way of wiring and fitting decoders - I use a plug and socket with standardised wiring for the decoder. The white block is a 4-way plug & socket but an 8-way one would deal with lighting. This is in an ALCO SD40T-2 model If I want, or need, to run the loco in DC-only mode...