Recent content by sabretooth47

Yeah, possibly. I want to divide the layout on a diagonal with a small hill and trees. I have a few more small buildings and vehicles I can throw in as well. I don't want to get into it too much, as we're going to be shopping for a house within the next couple months. But I do need to get...

Since I don't have the space yet, I decided to set up a little 4'x2' piece of plywood and throw some track on it so I can run my engines. I got to say, I'm so glad I run N-Scale and not anything bigger. It's a double oval with a basic switch-over and two tiny spurs. But it's enough that I can...

I've been away a while...but it's always nice to come back and see these awesome pics. It really is inspiring to get back to work :)

I toyed with the A unit again last night. It's getting power, as the headlight is coming on. I took the shell off again and spun the engine gear and the wheels are moving freely. I got the feeling the engine itself is shot. If that's the case, I find that a little disturbing. I'm probably...

I can't imagine that they need a "break-in" run. I have 6 other engines (4 Atlas, 1 Lifelike, and 1 other Bachmann). All but one of these is older than the F7 AB and they all run beautifully. Ironically, the 1 other Bachmann is a Sante Fe F7 that came with a starter set and that runs better...

So I've had these F7 Spectrum units for about 6-7 years. They were never run much...a total of maybe 20 minutes...up until recently when I finally got my track laid tried putting it through some paces. It did not run as good as I'd expected back then, but I wrote it off as poor wiring to the...

Thanks :mrgreen: Right, no DCC. I'm going to restricting the direction of the engines to run only left (clockwise) around the layout, so I opted to leave the blocks as is. That's why I separated the passing track. An engine can sit idle at the left end of the passing track while one pulls...

I finished laying the track (Atlas Code 80) this weekend. I'll be starting the wiring this week at some point. Not really much to look at but I took some pics of the progress:

Some preliminary construction pics. Doesn't show much, but the cookie-cut grades are obvious.

Figure I'd post the block schematic. 8 Blocks total. I split the passing track into two blocks, so an engine can come up behind the other without hogging the mainline.

NCRR = Nickel City Rail Road So I FINALLY started laying the groundwork this weekend for my first "real" layout. It will be built upon a 80"x32" hollow door. So far, I've verified where the track will lay, made some adjustments to the original plan, and cookie-cut the two grades. Not much...

And what scale letter shall we assign to that??? NNN ? ZZZ ? NZN ? WoW ? LOL ? ROTFL ? sign1