From the service pit to the main line. Four GP40-2 (hand over heart), lean into the tonnage and "Get It Going" Eastbound. Thanks for looking, lets have fun!!
Along with all the obviously outstanding aspects of your work I have to add that your vehicles are also very nice. Thanks for sharing another look at your modeling.
Thanks Charlie, I dont have a clue what I'm doing with the video thing, but we are trying to have a good time anyway
Great video! Can you explain on how not one car wobbles on your very long train! Very realistic, indeed! John
"CY-TY, You got them all, have a good trip." "Four on the crew, I want to see two heads sticking up at all times front and rear" Bill Jackson
Im thinkin that William Jackson could kinda "Rawhide" a guy Thanks for the roll by William, all the power is makin smoke and the wheels are turning. High Ball! I will straight air the train once in a while to keep them awake back there. Thanks Jim, I really enjoy see your work as well. You inspired me to get one of those old Jordan model A kits, that will be worked into a scene somewhere. Hi John, The cars are all weighted twice NMRA specs, and ride on Reboxx or similar (IM) type wheels, dont care for KD wheels or JayBee, or most other wheels. Reboxx are the best rolling wheels I have ever used. And you can get them in different lengths to fit proper in different trucks. Keeps the lateral motion down and they dont rock at all, unless something is wrong.
Sorry, Tom, let me see ... you just replace the wheel sets in the trucks? .. Not the entire truck? guess I am a little 'thick headed' on your method.
Unless there is a glaring issue I generally use the trucks that came with the car. I use the truck tuning tool from Reboxx http://www.reboxx.com/Tools.htm I have found the 1.025, 1.030, 1.035 lengths both 33" and 36" very handy for me, I try to not put the insulated wheels on the same side on a truck. Plastic axles on plastic trucks have not worked out very well for me. They just dont roll very well after a lot of use, but thats just me.
Ditto on the Reboxx wheels. They also look closer to scale (or are they scale size?), and look much better on rolling stock than, say, the Intermountain or P2K wheels (and I also use the latter). When I was visiting my folks in Afton in 1979 and 1980, I enjoyed watching quartets of GP40-2s rolling the hot freights thru town at 60 per. They wasted no time ripping through town.
