Satan's Goldfish Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 I even joked about having a spare UPS in my garage, could have been useful. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted December 10, 2015 Share Posted December 10, 2015 Any photos of CSX 18 in a consist on the layout? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted December 10, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 10, 2015 Any photos of CSX 18 in a consist on the layout? Dan I forgot to take it with me. However its now in the stock boxes after adding it to the JMRI roster on Sunday. Next chance to run it will be at the NMRA BR convention in October 2016. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 It'll get more of a run than I've ever given it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted December 28, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 28, 2015 A couple of days ago we visited Colonial Photo and Hobby in Orlando. This place is one of a number of hobby shops that started my interest in American modelling, the other big one, Train Depot having long since closed. Good to see the Colonial store is as good as ever. I was only after detailing bits but this two pack of Kato P42's selling for $99.00 couldn't be left behind. They are second hand but look as if they have hardly been used and the detail pack has not been opened. A couple of Digitrax decoders obtained at the same time are about to be fitted before we go to breakfast. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Nice haul Ian! I'm over in Orlando toward the end of next year, I'll have to pay them a visit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robatron86 Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 It is a really good hobby store. Wholly recommended. I spent a whole morning in there just looking at everything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted December 29, 2015 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 29, 2015 Nice haul Ian! I'm over in Orlando toward the end of next year, I'll have to pay them a visit. Plenty of N scale in this store so be prepared to empty your wallet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted December 29, 2015 Share Posted December 29, 2015 Awesome. I intend to be well stocked up when I come home. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 2, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) Back in Santa Barbara earlier today for a few beers and meet up with someone from the UK currently on holiday there. A pleasant run up from LA in single deck coaches but with a loco each end despite the beautifully repainted cabbage car at one end (see the video). The station as good as ever but just as I get ready yo fit more litter bins, they have removed them from he platforms. However I have modelled it as it was a few years ago so they will still be added. Edited January 2, 2016 by roundhouse 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 2, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 2, 2016 (edited) One more video from yesterday Edited January 2, 2016 by roundhouse 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Hard to see- it is "Private"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted January 3, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted January 3, 2016 Hard to see- it is "Private"! Apologies Hopefully sorted now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 21, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2016 The Amtrak special edition Kato loco arrived for me states recently. Cost an arm and a leg with shipping plus Amtraks handler Staples adding a export handle charge plus Parcelfarce handling and VAT. Yesterday I picked up a decoder from Sunningwell at the RISEX show. Decoder fitted plus the modifications to the lighting so now the ditch lights work although I think st I will need to do a little bit of tinkering with the CV values to get a more noticeable alternating flashing. Now need to do the same modifications to the rest of the P42 fleet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 (edited) The Amtrak special edition Kato loco arrived for me states recently. Cost an arm and a leg with shipping plus Amtraks handler Staples adding a export handle charge plus Parcelfarce handling and VAT. Yesterday I picked up a decoder from Sunningwell at the RISEX show. Decoder fitted plus the modifications to the lighting so now the ditch lights work although I think st I will need to do a little bit of tinkering with the CV values to get a more noticeable alternating flashing. Now need to do the same modifications to the rest of the P42 fleet. The modification to add working ditch lights does really add something to the loco. I need to modify more of my P42 fleet (only one done so far, eight to go). My latest additions to my Amtrak fleet were an Athearn F59PHI in as in your video above and an Atlas B32-8W in the California scheme. I'm not sure how I justify either in the east. Adrian Edited February 21, 2016 by Adrian Wintle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted February 21, 2016 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted February 21, 2016 Adrian Rule number 1 applies! a second P42 now has working ditch lights. Thad to take out those that I put in it as I forgot that I had bought red ones swell as clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium GWRPhil Posted February 21, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 21, 2016 The Amtrak special edition Kato loco arrived for me states recently. Cost an arm and a leg with shipping plus Amtraks handler Staples adding a export handle charge plus Parcelfarce handling and VAT. Yesterday I picked up a decoder from Sunningwell at the RISEX show. Decoder fitted plus the modifications to the lighting so now the ditch lights work although I think st I will need to do a little bit of tinkering with the CV values to get a more noticeable alternating flashing. Now need to do the same modifications to the rest of the P42 fleet. Nice loco. Will be good to see it running on Santa Barbara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 3, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2017 It's been over a year since the last post on here. The layout hasnt been out since Warley 2015 but it will be at the Eas Surrey N scale show in Redhill this Saturday. It's also the only invite the layout currently has so it could be its last although hopefully not as I am not planning on retiring it yet. A few new locos to give a run this weekend aswell. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 not far from home!, un-like me i'm at Trainwest!!,busy trying to find some watering holes in Corsham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 3, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 3, 2017 not far from home!, un-like me i'm at Trainwest!!,busy trying to find some watering holes in Corsham. Try the Two Pigs in Corsham. Not been in there myself but does get a good review. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 it's closed down, bit of a pig!!!,our digs are opposite the Hair and hounds, gets good reviews, we'll have a walk about, 6 pubs with real ale, should do!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted April 8, 2017 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2017 Has a good day with the layout. After being stored for around 17 months since Warley show the layout worked fine although a few issues with some freight cars that have only run once or twice. By this afternoon most of those had been tweaked and running fine. It's the last show we have an invite for at present but no Yes we to dispose of the layout. So this hopefully won't be the last photo taken at a show. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted August 20, 2018 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted August 20, 2018 On our recent trip to the Convention in the USA we picked up a few new locos produced by a relatively new company, Scaletrains. Both locos are Tier4 Gevos, one is in Norfolk Southern for a future layout but one is in UP livery for running on Santa Barbara. The boxes are quite striking and a departure form the normal plastic box. The locos themselves are very nice, probalby the most detailed N scale USA oultine produced so far with separate handrails fitted. Fox Valley provide the handrails but you have to drill and fit them yourself. They also use Next18 decoders so I have installed a Zimo decoder in the UP loco and will fit a separate Digitrax transponder decoder hard wired ot the loco pick up wires so that it can work the Surroundtrtaxx sound system. Photos of the loco. It will get a very light weathering. With the body off after removing the coupling screws. There is room for a speaker in the fuel tank so thats where the transponder decoder will go. As the layout hasnt been out since April 2017 I intend setting it up to check before the Seaboard show in Crawley on 15th September 2018 plus there is a new 11th staging track to test. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloucester Road Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 They really are very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendell1976 Posted August 21, 2018 Share Posted August 21, 2018 Nice N scale layout of my native state of California. Santa Barbara is a beautiful city on the Pacific Ocean. I love how you change the timeframe using Southern Pacific locomotives versus the Union Pacific locomotives. Keep up the good work, Ian! Wendell Idaho, USA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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