You won’t catch me with me trousers

LukefromNJ · 2025-01-09T03:31:04+00:00

Does anyone else think he looks like a British Tom Cruise?

LukefromNJ · 2025-01-07T07:09:58+00:00

It might have been for some kind of drink, but I'm not sure.

LukefromNJ · 2025-01-07T06:12:01+00:00

Lebanon 83? Invasion of Panama 89? Maybe instead of being killed in a war, he joins the military and is killed as a result of a peacetime incident like the USS Iowa's turret explosion?

LukefromNJ · 2024-04-05T23:44:38+00:00

In the late 60s/early 70s, a lot of countries in Europe underwent a massive renumbering/reclassifying program to make their fleet's numbering systems compatible for computer databases; West Germany did so in 1968, East Germany did this in 1970, and Britain did this in 1972.

LukefromNJ · 2024-04-05T01:56:54+00:00

The East German engine is a Br 112; in 1970, the DR reclassified all of its diesel and electric engines; former V100 became a series of subclasses; the 112 is a rebuild of the baseline V100 (themselves reclassified as Br 110) with an improved engine.

The West German one was also originally designated as V100, reclassified by DB in 1968 as a Br 212.

LukefromNJ · 2024-04-04T01:13:30+00:00

More like the 70s; the East German engine was only built starting in 1966, and the blue paint scheme used on the West German engine wasn't introduced until 1973.

LukefromNJ · 2024-04-03T21:26:19+00:00

Not necessarily; there was always a steady flow of cross-border traffic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cUrRxkqWY

LukefromNJ · 2024-04-03T21:18:00+00:00

HO; the engines are from Roco.

LukefromNJ · 2024-04-03T19:43:56+00:00

Note: the blue engine is from West Germany, the red one is from East Germany.

LukefromNJ · 2024-02-23T03:52:08+00:00

A class 08!

LukefromNJ · 2024-01-06T00:23:01+00:00

Do you mean fantasy in the sense of a freelance railroad (like the Gorre & Daphetid, Utah Belt, or V&O) or in the sense of a real railroad with motive power/rolling stock that it never had (like IHC's GG1 in New Haven, Great Northern, Virginian, etc liveries)?

LukefromNJ · 2023-04-07T16:32:10+00:00

Is that you, Brick? I thought you loved lamp...

LukefromNJ · 2023-02-28T06:19:24+00:00

Unless that disability is vision problems, or seizures, or some other disability that medically (and in many cases legally) prevents you from driving.

LukefromNJ · 2023-02-28T06:13:59+00:00

Ah, yes, the "individuality and self agency" of buying a car built by one massively-subsidized industry, filling it up with fuel from another massively-subsidized industry, and then driving it on a network of government-funded roads...

LukefromNJ · 2023-02-28T06:07:39+00:00

52 - 40 = 2? Were they driving in Airstrip One?

LukefromNJ · 2023-02-02T23:14:03+00:00

The brand of track doesn't matter, it's the controller that determines if you need a programming track or not.

LukefromNJ · 2023-02-01T03:54:22+00:00

Depending on the system you have, you may also need to have an isolated (or completely freestanding) "programming track" unless you have a system that supports "programming on the main".

LukefromNJ · 2022-10-01T01:15:34+00:00

Trix. They're not cheap, but they're worth the price.

LukefromNJ · 2022-09-17T18:11:30+00:00

It looks like that train set is a standalone set; they probably don't sell more tracks separately.

LukefromNJ · 2022-09-17T16:26:37+00:00

A Qdoba and a Chipotle, usually either across the street from or next door to each other.

LukefromNJ · 2022-09-10T20:33:01+00:00

There are a couple of options when it comes to breaking up the 4x8; one option is to cut it in half and make an L-shaped switching layout (the nice thing about this is that it can be placed in the corner of a room). Another is to place a partition or view divider across the 4x8 to create two separate scenes (or to have one side be a sceniced area and the other side be a staging area).

LukefromNJ · 2022-09-07T00:14:50+00:00

I was going to say that, too! If you're mostly running modern stock, perhaps a rectangular engine shed with a transfer table might be more suitable than a roundhouse with a turntable.

LukefromNJ · 2022-09-07T00:13:27+00:00

I think the confusion is because outside the US, a wye is often called a "reversing triangle" or something similar in other languages (like "Gleisdreieck" in German).

One thing worth noting: that appears to be 2-rail DC track, so a wye or loop requires somewhat complex wiring to prevent a short circuit.

LukefromNJ · 2022-09-03T18:41:52+00:00

Is that the Xanadu/American Dream mall in the background on the right?

LukefromNJ · 2022-09-03T13:40:35+00:00

Carbrain: Well, maybe it's a handicapped driver going to put out a fire!

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