enginear joe

Well congrats then Ray. It is a beauty! Already to run for you then too. It's tough to pass up more diesels!!!

 Me and some big ideas. I thought a brass snow plow would be better because of the sharp radius.

Looks like Chuck's engine??

 Yeap, I was recently suggested to go with 20' curves in the future so I could run a USA bigboy. My biggest curve in the house is the 11' ones from Aristo. So you might expect me to go big outside right? My yard is only 64' wide! - fencing and landscape. So unless you're in the rural areas around me, you can't get crazy big with curves and layouts. I wouldn't mind moving to a bigger lot to make a dream layout. For now, I'm thinking of the 15 footers or hand bent flex.

 Yeap Ray, that is a sweet paint job! Trouble is, there's many more. They said all twenty!

Some cool news is coming out of Aristo. They are going to release their dash in NS Heritage schemes. There are some great paint jobs coming!!

 Is RLD going?? Maybe I could find some misc stuff I'm after??? Think there'll be new stuff from the mans.??

 Well it looks like I'm late to the party again. I don't see much out there available in Amtrak cars right now. All the MTH ones are gone. I see that Aristo, LGB, and USA has made them in the past. Just don't see any around?? Are there any new ones out there?? Any double highs?? Would seem like a possible seller in modern scheme with LEDs inside and some other updates??

 I haven't been there in years. We saw the G gauge MTH Challengers there when they were first coming out. My girl said she liked how it looked when it overhung on the curves. That's all it took for me to get the green light!

I'm trying to make it there again soon. I think the timing would be right for this year. I'm just not sure if she can get the time off work.

 Jim, you've got to get some good pics of that! Does that make you a snowbird???

Ooops, guess you do have them:

 Jim, would love to see a pair of these pulling a long train. Imagine if you had the reg and super cars and followed with roadrailers!

Hmmm, seen it somewhere?

 Yeap, I bet you're right. I just ran it in reg DC mode with a USA Geep. Both pulled 5 amps with a long train. The LGB was about 2 with no load. I have to tear into her. Another thing that I hate......

blueish LEDs! They kind of look like modern car headlights I guess. I just prefer warm white. Runs pretty smooth. Like to hear it with sound and a loud horn. I was going to put this one to last but now I'm wondering.....

 How about one of these?:

Oh Boy, Now I've got to get some Amtrak cars to pull!!

I wonder how many amps these will draw for my decoders??

There are some great pics of steamers here. Everyone around me prefers steamers so I can understand and respect their excitement. I do enjoy watching them chug.

I really prefer the modern diesels, myself. That shot of the Warbonnets really catches my eye!!

Yeah!!! Now we're talking!! Love the shots. Keep 'em coming!

Thanks Ray, who was it who said "don't sweat the details"??

here she is with some work to the chassis. Adding frame segments and......going to need some brass tubing to capture the sand lines I think.

Thanks Ray, she's getting there slowly!

had to reshape the GE's porch and make some ditch lights

Here she is sitting on a modified MTH chassis. Mine sat too high.

A lot more work to go

finally dragged this out to do something more. I've got to make door panels for the sides. Yuk.

Yes, to be clear, this engine now has a MTH PS2 board inside for control. That powers the smoke unit. I believe the fan can only handle like 5 volts max. Ray would know the most. He's where I get a lot of info from!