Well I picked up another set of spoke metal wheels and two sets of solid metal wheels for my train set. The spoke set is for my Nestle car and the two solid sets are for my 4 axle flat car. I also picked up another used LGB #3 passenger coach in beige and orange. I will be adding LGB Ball Bearing Wheels and a LED as soon as my hobby shop gets them back in stock. Ken Finch
Added a capacitor to each of the lighted coaches to prevent flickering. Waiting for the LGB Ball Bearing Wheel kit to arrive to light up my last coach and also will add a capacitor to that coach as well and then my complete train will be on metal wheels. Then all I need are more seated passengers for the coaches and some beer bottles and cases for my beer cars. Ken Finch
What size/type cap used for your lighting? I might have to think about that for my cabooses. To keep lights steady, and the marker lights as well. Spent close to 3 hours today, running. But, anything but a normal train! Ran my 2 GP40's and 5 narrow gauge cars! The K27 needs the wheels cleaned yet!
Well I get my capacitors from scrapped dead Lithium E-Bike chargers. Their ratings are 200 volts 680uF electrolytic. But anything with higher values are better but size of the capacitor is a problem. I mounted my capacitors on the underside of the coaches in between the two existing plastic tanks. I used a black permanent ink felt marker to paint them black to look like another tank of some sort. Ken Finch
Will be picking up soon a LGB #2051 used Diesel with sound from my local hobby shop to add to my setup. Ken Finch
No because I mainly setup my track indoors. My kids are at their grandparents for the summer break. So I leave the track setup all the time instead of disassembling it each morning. Ken Finch
Well I picked up on my lunch my used LGB 2051 S Diesel Locomotive. Will be cleaning it's wheels up then running it tonight. Ken Finch
Pictures of the LGB #2051 S Diesel Locomotive I picked up yesterday from the hobby shop. It run fine and the diesel sounds are great. Ken Finch
I have decided to split my cars up between the Santa Fe Steamer and the DB Diesel. The Santa Fe Steamer will be a passenger train and the DB Diesel will a freight train. So I will put all the freight cars and the lighted caboose on the DB Diesel. And the Santa Fe will get the lighted carriages. I have a 4 axle flatbed, 3 2 axle box cars and a 2 axle lighted caboose for the freight train. For the passenger train I have 3 lighted carriages with passengers. I will be getting another carriage tomorrow with more passengers for it. I already have the LGB Ball Bearing Wheel Set with Power Pickups and a white LED for it to light it up. That will give me four lighted coaches for my Santa Fe Steamer. Later on I will get a fifth coach and lighting parts and passengers to complete the passenger train. As far as the freight train goes later on I will pick up a crane car to complete the freight train. Then I will see about getting more track for when I setup outside. Ken Finch
Well I had my first fatality running my train set. I setup my starter kit steamer with it's tender and four lighted coaches going around the layout fine. I left it running at about half speed for a few hours. Then I fell asleep for the night. I woke up at 4:30am this morning and heard the engine puffing away. But then I noticed it was puffing away sound wise and the lights were running but the train was standing still. I turned off the throttle and checked everything. No derailment no track blockages nothing. When I picked up the engine I noticed the bottom was very hot and I smelled a hot electrical and hot grease smell coming from the bottom of the engine. So I disassembled the engine and extracted the drive motor. A bearing on one side of the armature had failed thus disabling the drive motor. So the steamer is out of commission until a replacement is available from LGB at my local hobby store. Ken Finch
Oops. Good thing there was not a more serious melt down, or possibly even a loss of your power supply.
Well my hobby shop has a drive motor in stock so I will pick it up tomorrow and have the locomotive running tomorrow night. Ken Finch
Well I purchased the replacement drive motor for my starter set locomotive and installed it. The locomotive is up and running like new again. Ken Finch
I have added to my set a Playmobil train station and a Playmobil motorized cargo crane. Also added a Playmobil cargo train with added coal tipper car, flatbed car and a LGB toy train caboose. Just bought a LGB toy train ICE train as well. Will be getting the 2nd motor unit with LED headlights for the ICE as well as the 2nd passenger car and the bistro restaurant car as well. Later on planning to add a Playmobil airport with cargo jet. Also a Playmobil clinic as well.
