Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Weaver alco on 027 tracks

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One of the last issues with the Weaver Alco engine running on 027 tracks was that it derailed the first car it pulls in a curve. To resolve ...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Lionel 1677

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Today, a beautiful pre-war gondola arrived. It is the green Lionel 1677 that was produced from 1933-1935. A long lithographed car that was p...
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Sunday, March 01, 2009

Alco running

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Although the new FA-2 diesel engine doesnot have QSI, Protosound, Trainsound or whatever fancy hightech sound system, it does have an uniqu...
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Weaver UP Alco #6540

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About a month ago, I received a beautiful Weaver FA-2 Alco diesel engine in Union Pacific livery from Northern Saskatchewan. Although produc...
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Monday, February 09, 2009

P&LE Boxcar

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A beautiful Weaver PS-1 boxcar has joined us. It is a jade green NYC system Pittsburgh and Lake Erie boxcar made in a special run for P&...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Planting trees

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One of the key difficulties of a layout on a folding table is how to deal with adding scenery, especially houses, mountains and trees. Today...
Monday, January 26, 2009

Long trains run by

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This weekend we played with th e trains and made some large consists and saw how the MTH switcher pulled it easily. The house / crossing bel...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Reynolds Railroad Products

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This weekend I found two old US 0 scale cars of a brand that is unknown to me "Reynolds railroad products - Athearn 0 scale kits" ...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Modelspoorbeurs Houten

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Today, was a large toy train convention in Houten. About 90% of the toy trains offered were in half zero and N, but a few nice O scale toy t...
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Lionel versus MTH

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Today was a fine day to run trains and to compare my MTH SW 1500 switcher with my Lionel SD 28 diesel engine. First of all, some pulling tes...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Hopper time

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A colourful PS-2 Hopper joined us and it came in beautiful old cardboard box. It is just nice to enjoy this 'out-dated' design. I am...
Friday, November 07, 2008

TCA-MG Club car #2

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This week the 2008 TCA-MG club cars arrived and they are handsome indeed. The designers chose for the new 40' flat cars of Weaver with ...
Thursday, October 09, 2008

Progress on the layout

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The MTH Z controller is in. It requires an input current of 20 Volt AC, 100 Watt with a maximum current of 6 Ampère. So, first I tried using...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Changing trucks

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A few months ago I was lucky to purchase some Weaver cars here in Europe. However, they we fitted with 2 rail trucks and Kadee couplers. Wel...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Protosound 2

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And there was sound. A strong nearly deafening diesel roar can now be heared from the attic. The first MTH engine has made a strong and impr...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Historail

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In the middle of France, in a small town named St. Leonard de Noblat is a small railway museum: Historail . The entrance is a bit authentic ...