I would agree with that Tom, its a purchase for your railroad, multiscale DCC counts in here so a subscription to literature should, books and magazines focused on model railroading. That's just my opinion though.
Thank you for the suggestion, I will try that. Yes, I can see building up a fleet of these with different roads, eras, and equipment configurations.
Not model related, but railroad related! Purchased 4 books last week, that arrived today: 1. Chasing Trains: Life Story of Robert Richardson, Colorado RailRoad Museum founder 2. BNSF Freight Cars, V1 3. BNSF Freight Cars, V2 4. BNSF Freight Cars, V3 Some interesting reading material, for when next round of snow shows up!
Road the TGV in 1990 from Nice to Paris, was one of the best parts of visiting France. Thing was so amazing at the time, still is.
Purchased Blair Line billboard. Classic Metal Works transit bus set. Intermountain Robeson Process Co. tank car. Two L&N & one C of G Deluxe covered hoppers, one MP 40' boxcar. Six old run Roundhouse freight cars.
The old Roundhouse cars were great. They chose interesting prototypes with good paint and I still enjoy running mine.
I was talking to a book Vendor at a recent train show and he said that sales of books aren't as robust as they once were. He suggested that the Internet was the reason, that people can often find the prototype pictures they need with a few keystrokes. That may be true, but it's my experience that Internet photo selection is limited and not always of good quality. Despite their cost, books often offer much better pictures and historic information. I know you'll enjoy yours by the fireside.
Yep. I am going to buy books and am glad some are being posted here. Books are more comfortable to read than displays. They just are. You cannot curl up with a 10.5 ipad pro, it just does not work. the comfy soft chair and the coffee and the beam of sunlight. all go to waste. the ipad fights the couch with its form being to hard and totally awkward to hold. You have like 1/4 inch to grip then your pressing buttons that make the book disappear and something you didn't want to open opens. the cost of the 'book' in your hands makes it all around nervous experience with any fluids, bath? oh hell no! the beam of sunlight, oh man, even that the ipad just fights, just ruins a good beam of sunlight. glare, omg the glare. But it is useful, I get so annoyed with it but I need to just use it for what it is good at, and not force functions on it that it sucks at.
There is no replacement for a good book, a nice easy chair, and a cup of a warm beverage on a cold rainy day.
Bachmann 70 ton switcher. It was on sale very cheap for a DCC equipped loco. Trying to make it a MOW track grinder/cleaner adapting it to the function. at $50 for all the systems it has to be a switcher its a great deal as a base for a DIY track cleaner car that is DCC enabled. a few runs around the track with it being shoved backwards as its wheels are spinning against the direction of travel did seem to grind and clean the track a bit. Also seemed to improve the 70 tonners running.
I can't figure how people deal with the glare. I enjoy rail photography and shoot everything old-skool style using the viewfinder on my DSLR, never using the fold-out LCD screen as I shoot. The newer versions of my camera sport vast functionality gains using the LCD for settings, but it's still worthless functionality outdoors. Yep, I love my books too y'all ….. and they'll never be technologically obsolete!
I enjoy reading and looking at the pictures in railroad books and I wish I had more, but at $60 - $80 a piece it gets quite expensive. Not to mention trying to find older books at reasonable prices is nigh impossible. But I will keep buying them. And I will never use an electronic device to read a book.
And said "book" always seem to run low on charge and needs to be plugged in when you need it. Now you have a cord attached.
Just got a new Kato GS-4 4-8-4 BNSF version. First steam in my all diesel layout. Love it. Will be making an excursion train with it as soon as I get a LokSound Micro V4 installed.
pdavidson...what will your consist be for the BNSF steam excursion train? I have looked all over the internet and can't find any photos of the BNSF 4449 pulling a train.
I have several and like them, too. They may not be the final word in detail but I don't care. Nice, heavy floor and they never derail. And, as you said, interesting prototypes. Doug
Chased BNSF 4449 (aka Daylight 4449) repainted into black, silver, from snohomish all the way to wenatchee have pics of her including the stops at skykomish, scenic, for passing freights somewhere. Was super stoked to be able to see her in action including BNSF pumpkin 4449 as assurance over the pass plus to push thru the cascade tunnel.
