• Vandals trash Stamford model railway exhibition
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FInd them and smash their rooms in return. Only thing they deserve.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSz5YM5YrdGl9hq-KnMBG7Q?view_as=subscriber It's mostly just a place for me to throw the occasional animated shitpost, and lately I've been mostly uploading RC stuff, but I do have some clips of my N-scale stuff on there.
https://youtu.be/H73cqRD1464
While this is a compelling argument to stay at home, as part of Group 160, an N scale club on the west coast, it's amazing how much joy it brings to small children. That's why we do it, anyways. This is an ultra rare occurrence, and it's so worth it to show everyone the trains.
I could be convinced to run my trains on foreign rails FAR essier than to bring my home rails along. Pretty much as long as there's a guarantee I'm not gonna have some whiny little 9 year old and his entitled mom demanding I hand my property over because they want it. One of these days I oughtta bring my Mogul and its 1870s passenger consist down to the TCRM layout, alongside perhaps my what-if carbody DD40 and a mixed freight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vUwovV_iOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCQFB_KXuUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ggqaHh1NI Should do that sooner or later, preferrably on a day they've got the shop open too. I wanna support their 'Restore NC&STL 576 to operable condition' project. Model trains are one thing, but that very club is attached to a historic railway society that's working on restoring a Northern(Well, Dixie as they're oft called down here) that sat in Nashville's Centennial Park since the 1950s to operational status and then running it through my area on excursions.
Damn, that DD40 is rad! Got any better pictures of it? I use a (pair sometimes) Bachmann DD40AX to pull my caboose train, since it produces the most traction of any N-scale engine I've ever seen, especially if you get the no-sound version and stuff lead in the fuel tank. I'm good friends with one of the guys who works at Digitrax so I got a lot of free stuff from them, made it easy for me to go Digitrax. Tying yourself to MRC is a good way to not be able to run your rigs at like 75% of layouts.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/434263159486939149/462723413736423424/unknown.png Best one I can find at the mo. The shell is off Shapeways, painted up in my own railway's livery. Adagio Hills Historic Railway. Like to think of it as a shortline that runs revenue freight with literally anything that'll pass FRA inspection, which is the justification I use to run an 1870s 2-6-0 alongside a 1970s DD40 on the same layout I went MRC because a Prodigy Express system had all the major DCC functionality for roughly the price of a single co-co diesel, which was a major draw for me at the time. Still is. Can't really justify spending $400+ on a DCC system when a competitor's system is more powerful than I'll ever need and only costs $125. I have 4-digit addresses, JMRI capability, can program any CV on the main or the prog track, the works. I actually have that DD40 set up for fully manual notching. I didn't like how the auto-notching code in the decoder would let the thing trundle along at something like 15 sMPH before it noticed it up over idle when I've never seen a real diesel do that. They always go at least notch 2 before they even begin to move. and yeah, the DD40 is a brute. Sixteen wheel drive and twin motor does that. I also have mine ballasted a bit. The hood unit chassis leaves enough of a gap between itself and the full carbody shell I use that I was able to stuff quite a few stick-on quarter ounce wheel weights in there. That thing's my third strongest loco. My second strongest is also my most infrequently used: A Con Cor 4-8-4 S=2, which incessantly throws the front driverset off the rails at the samne $*%)(ing spot no matter hwo much I tinker with it. And my strongest is a plastic frame LL EMD E-8A, which has ripped turnouts apart in the past, broken couplers, damaged cars...that thing's an absolute brute.
It's great to see donations have been pouring in, even Sir Rod Stewart has donated: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-48332649
WARNING LOUD! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b8HO6hba9ZE
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