Chipping away at the details on LAJ CF-7 #2619….. Cut levers from an Athearn Genesis F unit, air hose, and MU stand. The prototype only had two stacks so I shaved two of the four stacks off.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It’s been a week of fine tuning on the LAJ. Micro Engineering currently has the market on the most prototypical looking turnouts. They are prone to electrical dead spots though. Tam Valley frog juicers, absolutely ingenious devices, quickly solved that problem. I also had some gremlins in the track around one of the […]