12-14-2009, 09:27 PM
At a recent train show (WGH on tour in Puyallup, WA) I found a basket-case Penn Line Atlantic in an old cigar box, all the parts there and half-assembled, for $15. The guy let me have it for $10. It's being wrapped for a place under the Xmas tree so I got a glance at it when I bought it and that's about it until after Xmas morning.
Anyway, some of my favorites are my firsts as well - an old AHM 0-4-0 A3 slope-back in GN green, silver & red, an Athearn NW Geep9 that growls when it runs, etc. Part of the fascination with the 'oldies' is the simplicity, even though I may take that simple thing and pour on a ton of detail parts & brass bits, then outfit it with DCC.
I've got an engine that I've been working on, off and on now, for a year or so. It's a Mantua Classics 0-6-0T that really needed some work even though it was new. It's the one in the video in my signature. I did some reworking (including purchasing a NWSL Quarterer to requarter the drivers) and have found that it may actually run better on DC than DCC. I was able to improve the slow speed characteristics with DC, but the DCC settings seem to remove some of the low speed, actually. I may be able to tweak the decoder a bit to account for that, but that remains to be seen.
All that to say, no, it ain't just you.
Galen
Anyway, some of my favorites are my firsts as well - an old AHM 0-4-0 A3 slope-back in GN green, silver & red, an Athearn NW Geep9 that growls when it runs, etc. Part of the fascination with the 'oldies' is the simplicity, even though I may take that simple thing and pour on a ton of detail parts & brass bits, then outfit it with DCC.
I've got an engine that I've been working on, off and on now, for a year or so. It's a Mantua Classics 0-6-0T that really needed some work even though it was new. It's the one in the video in my signature. I did some reworking (including purchasing a NWSL Quarterer to requarter the drivers) and have found that it may actually run better on DC than DCC. I was able to improve the slow speed characteristics with DC, but the DCC settings seem to remove some of the low speed, actually. I may be able to tweak the decoder a bit to account for that, but that remains to be seen.
All that to say, no, it ain't just you.
Galen
I may not be a rivet counter, but I sure do like rivets!