Here it is..... Arrived just a day late Has fully operational ditch lights and marker lights As well as the smooth running of ESU motion control as well!
Well I hope to do that soon, right now I have 4 of these and uploading them into JRMI is a pretty long ordeal...... Fortunately I have the ECos DCC system so I have graphical Icons instead of function keys.....
Can you use RailCom to upload them into JMRI? That should go a lot faster. Assuming the encoder supports RC, and is it enabled.
It does have RailCom but that functionality does not seem to be in JRMI and I have downloaded the latest version...
Is that the stock Kato DCC one or did you get it done somewhere else? I have been holding out for the Bachmann version because it had more light functionality. The Kato DCC locos I have gotten in the past just have everything hooked up to a single light.
I bought it and the custom decoder install from a shop in New England. They are not a supporter here, so I just as soon not get the woo woo woo. Send me a private message and I can share where I got it. It has functioning marker lights/ditch lights, in reverse the ditch lights are red and the rear marker lights the engine room is lighted all the time and then all the sounds. It is really amazing all the things that are programmed into this new generation of decoders. This is on par with the Rivet Counter Scale Trains units from the decoder aspect.
Picked these up at the Post Office today. Ordered just over two years ago. Hope to get the test track setup in the next few days to see how they run. The MT car is the current egg series. Stay safe,
I picked up a few decoder equipped and have been really happy. Haven't been able to run them much, but I think you'll be happy with them.
Picked up three DeLuxe Innovations MILW wood chip hoppers from my wish list, via a helpful fellow TrainBoarder! Yay!
I have a local shop near me that does DCC installs. I'll have to find out if they do lighting or just drop ins. Hope to see some photos once it arrives!
There is a warning about fragile wires and taking the shells off. So I am not sure how difficult it would be. I am not even sure if anyone has a motion only decoder. I just checked and Digitrax makes one, but I have had too many failures to trust Digitrax decoders.
This new Jägerndorfer Rh 4746 CityJet S-Bahn Triebwagenzug from the ÖBB showed up from Germany a couple of weeks ago. Love it! All lighted and extensive sound functions...as long as the LS5 holds together.
This OBB engine looks fabulous! The details are incredible! The washes and weathering tools are super useful.
Not really a purchase per se but a find. Today I went to visit my mom's apartment and still cleaning out stuff after my dad died two years ago. It's the same apartment that I grew up in. I came across this and I knew immediately knew what is was and where it came from. So thrilled to find it but melancholy because I couldn't share it with my father. I brought it home, cleaned it up and hot diggity all the parts fit perfectly!!! The material is a hard wax so there was really no glue that can permanently glue the parts together. But I have some Beacon Foam Tac that I use for my R/C airplanes. It's a pretty aggressive contact cement. Viola!!!!!!!!! The glue held as long as I don't rough handle it. Now The Story When my parents immigrated to the US, I was just a toddler. They arrived in San Francisco after a 30 day trip across the Pacific in a freighter. Jet planes were fairly new at the time and they were expensive and my parents didn't have much money. They arrived carrying two suitcases each, plus me of course. After resting in San Francisco they boarded a transcontinental train to New York City. Maybe that's how I got the train bug! They broke up the 5-day trip by stopping in Chicago. Note the inscription "CHICAGO" on one side and "MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY" on the other. We took a family picture in front of the giant (African?) elephant exhibit. Mom, Dad and me in a stroller. It was in black & white. I don't think there were color film back then. 20 years later, shortly after graduating college, we decided to go back and re-create that picture, all the time wondering if the exhibit was still there. We took Amtrak to match the transportation mode!!!!! Son of a gun, the exhibit was still exactly the same! While there, and now pretty much an adult and had my own money, I came across this machine that made blown wax models of some of their famous exhibits. It was either in the Gift Shop or on the main floor of the museum. I remembered the U-Boat, the steam train, and I think the giant elephant plus perhaps a few more. Obviously by now you knew which one I picked! I had completely forgotten about it until I found it today. I don't quite know why or how it became pieces. It was stored in a cool place and the pieces mated perfectly so it was broken versus melted from heat. Of course Mom didn't remember and I wish Dad could have seen it. Maybe he would have remembered. But I'm very happy to have found it and "restored" it. It brought back a ton of memory and how our family got started in the United States of America(!)
Let’s see… I don’t post to this thread often, so I’ll highlight the past six months of purchases: The good/great: A BLI N&W y6b, #2192, runs great. A Bachmann Silver series N& W caboose, red, “pre-hamburger,” so it’s suitable for steam era. 1 Pair of N$W coal hoppers, black, also pre-hamburger. 2 double-door Atlas N&W steel 40-ft boxcars. (Pre-ham…) 1 single door Atlas N&W 40-ft PS-1 steel boxcar (Yeah, Clara Peller is gripin’ about this one, too!) Two Atlas red C&O cabooses, the “real deal C&O cupola” design. A boxed pair of MicroTrains B&O single-sheathed , outer-braced wood boxcars - the set that has ‘em converted to concrete service - but I’m leaving the concrete conversion parts off. Want some real “old school” box cars trundling around my 1930s-1950s layout. 4 C&O 4-bay 70-ton hoppers, BLI. General weathering supplies. An assortment of Vallejo pigment powders. I had a very positive result & experience weathering a bridge directly with Vallejo Brown Iron oxide. Expanded the color palette with four more colors of the stuff One Athearn 50-ft C&O steel boxcar, 1950s. One Central Valley Models bridge kit, to make up part of a three-truss span. Edit: Oh, yeah, also one N&W single-sheathed, outer-braced box car, as well. No school like the old school. The Bad: Some Micro-Engineering N scale bridge track from Hiawatha Hobbies. They sent me HO scale. The package was labeled N scale. I wrote them. Mr. Glen Tarnow wrote back saying all their N-scale bridge track had HO scale in the package; said they would resolve. They have not resolved, nor has Mr. Tarnow responded to my follow-up correspondence.
