For $100.00 I can put up with the problems you mention...What a deal for a 10 amp DCC system! Heck of a lot better than $700.00 and I'd still be using JMRI anyway...hmm
Okay so with MTH on the verge of releasing the DCC friendly PS3 decoders in the RailKing One-Gauge lineup I'e been contemplating joining MERG which is the Model Electronic Railway Group which offers a DCC setup that can be bought in kit form. One advantage of using the MERG system is the price is quite reasonable and they offer a power booster with virtually unlimited power as I've seen claims in the 100 amp 30V area.
In the past I've fooled around with other companies DCC products and I wasn't impressed. Digitrax DCC just didn't have enough power and was expensive. NCE is very expensive and limited to only 10 amps @ 22 volts on the rails. And the NCE throttle felt "cheaply" made after handling/ using the MTH DCS throttle.
JMRI is another great program that I've used in the past to program DCC decoders. It's free as it's opensource. They have free apps to run your DCC trains via PC, Tablet & Smartphone.
That is a fascinating read..and now Caterpillar is the parent owner of EMD. Cat tried but could never get a foothold into the locomotive world as there engines couldn't holdup to the continuous pounding. The Cat large bore design was inferior but now they have the engines.
On the flip-side of things, General Electric has the honor of being the first to produce a diesel electric locomotive. They were the first and they're still number 1.
There's a reason for the low at one time price point as nowadays there stuff is getting high priced esp. the live steamers...and those live steam guys got plenty of complaints about their purchases. Don't hear of any complaints with Aster or even older Samhongsa stuff.
Me too! Over the years I've had many a different MTH passenger cars thru here. The last train was a set of 8 NYC cars and all of course pulled by my MTH J3a Super Hudson!
Just today I was thinking about Accucrap/ AML..Do those folks ever put out a catalog? Online or print?? Or are they so unsure of themselves that they don't want to be caught with a catalog of vaportrains???
Think I'll go along with Jerry Barnes's idea and give Sunset Valley stainless steel code 250 a try as the price ain't all bad at around $6.50 per foot before shipping. And I do like the looks of those #10 switches
Yeah your probably right about going with MTH passenger cars...And they'd sure be a bit more economical to purchase although there is one midwest dealer that claims on another forum that the MTH pass. cars aren't much to look at...Same dealer will charge $14.00 to ship 6 pairs of Kadee couplers...guess what?? No more business from me.
Nick Jr,
Dang fine thing to be outside running trains! I can't as my layout is all gone as getting ready to move out of the corrupt State of Insanity called Illinois..We're only the worst state in the Union as far as being in debt..and can't pay the bills.
About 10 years ago or so there was an article about the Lionel Large Scale 4-4-2. Seems it was in Classic Toy Trains and the article was basically an interview with the designer/ engineer of the Atlantic project for Lionel when they were in Michigan. He stated that the prototype model was built to tru-scale 1:32 size but the higher ups at Lionel, LLC thought it was too long so they had him redesign it shorter by removing one boiler course. That would be during the Richard Kughn era and I'd find it hard to believe that he'd want it shorter. That would also be about the time that Lionel, LLC started using Railsounds in there loco's. That also would be the era of the second (or third) bankruptcy so it's no wonder they were made kinda cheap!
I hope that AML does get the show cars bid! Only negative is it took them over 16 months to get around half of the 2009 HAGRS cars delivered after the show.
I have been eyeing up a set of 6 Accucraft 1:32 30" aluminum passenger cars...I better get my pre-order in
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Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 - Restoration & Excursions (& 844 updates)
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I wonder if a cable channel will make a movie of 4014's move and write a song about it??
Like Monster Moves did for The Train From Bloemfontein??