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Post by QcKraag on May 23, 2020 19:41:53 GMT -5
Can’t forward po box to canada...
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Post by QcKraag on May 21, 2020 16:10:56 GMT -5
I cannot get to my PO box in the states because of border closures and I definately don’t want to pay that extra 45$ shipping plus the extra shipping to get the frame to you guys, can you put a black and black a side for me so I can get it ordered once the situation gets back to normal and can get it sent to my US PO box?
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Post by QcKraag on May 2, 2020 7:04:49 GMT -5
Cn and Cp, there goes the budget
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Post by QcKraag on Apr 26, 2020 14:16:19 GMT -5
and what are the potential release dates? thats the most important question...
Isn’t the esu nano decoder smaller than a z2?
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Post by QcKraag on Sept 2, 2019 19:09:52 GMT -5
Oh if you guys did the Canadian after this...
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Post by QcKraag on Jul 19, 2019 4:18:28 GMT -5
From scaletrains facebook page Wow...wow...WOW!!! Hats off to the dedicated team of men and women behind the restoration of SP 9010, the sole surviving Krauss-Maffei ML-4000C’C’ “series” diesel-hydraulic. Here she is in a shot taken earlier this morning at her home at Niles Canyon Railway in Sunol, CA, in all her gray and scarlet glory. Originally built for SP by Bavarian firm Krauss-Maffei in 1964, SP 9010 and her siblings were part of SP’s quest for more HP in the 1960s, not being satisfied with the domestic offerings at the time. They were diesel hydraulics, in sharp contrast to the typical diesel-electrics popular in the US. While these brutes did deliver the HP...4,000 hp via a pair of Maybach MD870 prime movers...and had some advantages over diesel-electrics, the precision-tuned K-Ms were a bit more temperamental in comparison to products from EMD and GE. After a brief 8 years in service, SP gave up on the K-M diesel-hydraulics, with all but 9010 seeing the torch. Interestingly, SP converted 9010 into a camera car; renumbered to SP 8799, the entire nose was torched off, and a new enclosure was built, to house camera equipment and camera crew, for use in filming the right of way for SP’s locomotive simulator. This has a bit of a local connection for me, since when 8799 wasn’t on the road shooting film, it was parked on an industrial spur adjacent to an SP office in my hometown here in SoCal. As the years went on, SP 8799 outlived its usefulness as a filming platform (an SP SD40T-2 was equipped with camera brackets on its front end to handle those duties), and in 1986, it found a new home at the California State RR Museum in Sacramento. Unfortunately, the years in the backlot weren’t very kind, with elements and vandals taking their toll. The Pacific Locomotive Association would acquire the 8799 in 2008, moving it to its new home at Niles Canyon Railway. After nearly 11 years and many hours of labor and many, many dollars in donations, here we are; a beautifully restored SP 9010, painstakingly researched and restored to its original number, and how it appeared in its prime in SP service. We applaud the preservation efforts of museums all over, and seeing SP 9010 looking whole again sure brings a smile to this SP modeler’s face. And I dunno...I think I got something in my eye, too. ☺️ - Paul First Look: July 18, 2019 Nobody, not even the people working on SP 9010 for the last eleven years, had ever seen the whole locomotive, with all bodywork restored, lettered, and looking whole again, just like 1964. Not until this morning. :-) We took the locomotive (with the help of ex-SP passenger GP9 5623) to Sunol Depot, where we could use a hose and wash the beauty clean before Saturday's two outings with paying passengers. It's a major milestone -- and only the first of many, as SP 9010 is welcomed into the fleet of the Niles Canyon Railway... and into the sunshine. For SP 9010, what a long, strange trip it's been. For us... nonstop wonder. :-) www.facebook.com/Southern-Pacific-9010-186409164738195/
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Post by QcKraag on Jul 8, 2019 17:56:40 GMT -5
I’ll try an install with an ESU 73100 tonight and see if I can find room for a speaker...
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Post by QcKraag on Jun 30, 2019 22:54:29 GMT -5
This isn’t my first install... it was actually the decoder processor pins rubbing the frame, had to kapton the top of the frame...
Still curious what decoder you used for sound in the p42?
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Post by QcKraag on Jun 30, 2019 21:37:36 GMT -5
The dc decoder worked perfectly fine, the dcc ones are causing a short, I will try te kapton tape and see.
What type of sound decoder did you try? Esu?
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Post by QcKraag on Jun 30, 2019 19:04:21 GMT -5
I am wondering if any of you tried installing this decoder yet, just did the gevo’s and keep getting shorts...
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Post by QcKraag on Jun 22, 2019 7:08:02 GMT -5
But at the end of the day, we children want our dcc sound...
we can accept dcc but we dream of sound
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Post by QcKraag on Jun 10, 2019 7:07:42 GMT -5
Yes that is exactly why the younger generations, those that will matter, are going to n scale, because off dcc and sound
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Post by QcKraag on Feb 19, 2019 22:44:38 GMT -5
Oh and lets not forget to make it in via colors too
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Post by QcKraag on Dec 25, 2018 11:20:19 GMT -5
Wow Rapido trains newsletter just came out and guess what, they are announcing that they now have room to produce for other train companies... and are looking for new commercial partners... “As I was leaving China the LRC factory was well into Royal Hudson production and was doing colour tests for the Tempo and RS-18. The factory is growing and looking for one or two new customers, so if you are a mid-sized model train manufacturer looking for a better factory to make your stuff, please give me a shout and I will put you in touch with Colin, the LRC factory grand poobah.” P.s. yesssss via p42 and Merry Christmas to all
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Post by QcKraag on Dec 16, 2018 22:58:27 GMT -5
So no via rail still....
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