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Woah, Loren! Looks like you are greatly increasing your layout space! That's great!

For extremely free-rolling cars, I have even has trouble with steel screws for holding on the trucks or coupler boxes. So, I use nothing but non-magnetic wheelsets and brass screws.

Wow, thank you everyone for missing me! I am alive and well, just been doing other things. I've been feeling the railroad bug coming back though. Gary

Kurt, your building looks absolutely fantastic. It looks very realistic and I wish I had that for my layout. Great job on the scrtchbuild. Thanks for letting us see it.

Hey Ralph, I don't remember seeing the blue KP&W boxcars before. I like them. I still have the decals I made for my KP&W boxcar, but haven't done anything else on it yet. One of these days....

Wow! Those really do look nice. Very realistic. I am impressed!

I'm talking about the "image" icon. This is in the "post reply" window, directly above the rectangle where you type in replies. It is the yellow square with the "mountain" in it.

Thanks for the thoughts. So far, I have only played with the momentum settings a little; I felt like I had a loss of control versus no momentum, but that may have gone away after a bit. I just wanted to see what you guys were doing. Andrew, that is interesting about just using the for-rev...

You can upload photos directly here to The Gauge. Down below the regular Reply window, you will find a "Manage Attachments" button. Click that, then you browse your hard drive, and then upload. This will automatically put the photos in your post. Give it a try, it is actually pretty simple...

Those have to be the hUgesT photos I have ever seen on the 'net. My screen shows less than 1/4 of the actual image! Looks like you are off to a great start!

Your work looks great! Thanks for sharing with us, and keep up the good work. Also, I'm glad you found the shorting problem.

Follow up: Over the weekend, I worked on 2 of the Athearn CF7s and an Athearn GP35. I took them completely apart, cleaned everything, then put them back together piece by piece. As each piece was added, I ran the loco off a DC power supply, just to see where all the noise was coming from...

I'm hoping to get some thoughts on setting the CVs for my locos to be used on my industrial shortline. I know each brand and loco is different, but we can generalize here. Also, I don't want to use the complicated speed tables and such, I will just use CV2 through CV6 for setting up each loco...

Woah! Here is a website chock full of HO scale mobile homes. http://www.luckyirishmandiscounthobbies.com/homobilehome1.html

Here is something: Page Title I had seen this at a hobbyshop while I was up in Oklahoma. Luckily I remembered it was City Classics.

I'm back from the LHS. Got the driveshafts, NWSL wheels, and grease. I also found some bushings which may allow me to put the original Athearn flywheels on the PPW motor. Brakie, I have three CF7s, I'll see what happens with this one and the PPW motor. If it is not satisfactory, I'll try...

I'm hoping to get to the LHS today to get some old style drive shafts, some NWSL replacement wheelsets and grease. I'll put the PPW motor in and see how she goes. I'm going to give this a go, to heck with the cost and effort, I am using this as a learning experience.

Dan, thanks for your advice. I intend to do exactly what you said there, I just need to get the old style drive shafts. I'm not worried about the warranty, so any hacking and bashing is fair game. Now to take this thread in an alternate direction: Is it even possible to have an Athearn CF7...

The flywheels from the CF7 have holes that are too big for the PPW motor shaft. Also, these flywheels don't have any plastic inserts on either end. The hex shape on the driveshaft fits directly into the flywheel. The flywheels from the PPW motor have a hole with a plastic insert where a...

Thanks for all the comments so far, gentlemen. The LHS had a Proto Power West motor with flywheels. I bought that, but now have discovered that the flywheels are not compatible with my drive train. And the holes in the flywheels on the Athearn motor are too big to fit the PPW motor shaft...