Since the last post, I’ve simply spent some time running and breaking in the re-powered CF-7 on my Downtown Spur layout. I don’t know how long the donor Kato mechanism was sitting in the box (over a decade maybe?), but it has really smoothed out to be a silky smooth runner after logging some run […]
Just uploaded a new blog on my business site with an idea for preparing for the day you eventually have a layout. You can read it HERE.
Adding A Kato Drive Train and Wow Decoder to an Athearn CF-7 Well, that was a process (or, in terms my less refined readers can understand…a major pain in the ass) but in the end entirely worth it. The CF-7 now houses an upgraded Kato drive and TCS Wow decoder. I’m happy. Essentially the […]
I have to laugh when you watch those crime shows and they have somebody in the hot seat asking them where they were/what they were doing at 1pm six years ago. I couldn’t tell you what I was doing at 1 pm last Wednesday! From time to time people ask me about previous layouts, […]
My venture into making the palms entirely on my own from scratch seems to have worked. I wasn’t sure going in if it would. The trunks were made by taking a 1/4″ styrene rod, chucking it in a drill, and spinning it slowly while holding the sharp edge of a jeweler’s file against it as […]