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Amazing evening run

General Discussion
#1

I’ve been running battery lately. But today I spent some time getting the outside line ready for analog running. Started off with the Rio Gracie #1925. She is a Costco Bachmann special that has been repainted and sporting a BBT chassis and Phoenix sound. This is Valerie, my mother-in-laws engine. Now she isn’t about to EVER pull freight. So I pulled some dusty Costco Bachmann special Christmas cars and a Bachmann Tweetsie car. These cars have always given me trouble so I rarely run them. Wouldn’t you know it ,they ran flawlessly besides some little wiggles due to no weight. So I sat there enjoying a few cold ones and a cigar watching my Sparky go Round and Round. 4 hours later I called it a success. Running trains is fun. Future project is to repaint and reletter those passenger cars and add some weight to them.

Rio Gracie

#2

Nice run Tommy.

#3

Tommy,

Looking good. Can’t beat sitting in the yard with a brew and just watching them run.

#4

Tom; before you add weight to those B’mann passenger cars, check your trackwork, and the back-to-back wheel gauge on the car’s trucks. The cars themselves are heavy enough as they come, out of the box.

I have quite a number of them, and have never added weight to them.

Adding weight just avoids finding the real fault that causes derailments, quite often.

Fred Mills

#5

Tom; before you add weight to those B’mann passenger cars, check your trackwork, and the back-to-back wheel gauge on the car’s trucks. The cars themselves are heavy enough as they come, out of the box.

I have quite a number of them, and have never added weight to them.

Adding weight just avoids finding the real fault that causes derailments, quite often.

Fred Mills

#6

Looks nice, but now I have a strange desire to see Rock City?