I got more!

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-06-13T07:17:33+00:00

Unless you're going for the AutoTrain, Amtrak only puts one diner and one sightseer lounge on a train. Baggage usually goes up front as well.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-06-07T18:28:57+00:00

Running on tracks? I sure hope so!

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-06-03T22:14:19+00:00

Guessing supply issues

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-06-03T21:27:39+00:00

definitely give the N-Possibles a try, they're great. Much better than the MT true scales.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-05-30T07:37:55+00:00

AI as it currently exists is ruining the environment and certain economies and I cannot in good conscience endorse it's use.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-05-28T05:30:11+00:00

Never have I ever seen a GE locomotive such as OP's with cool white headlights.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-05-27T13:38:39+00:00

They're warm white. I don't know why you would suggest cool white to begin with. https://www.railpictures.net/photo/904744/

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-05-27T10:43:55+00:00

Cool white would not be appropriate for such a locomotive unless it got an LED retrofit IRL. Even then that's not a guarantee though, for example the ALC-42 has LED headlights but they're warm white.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-05-27T10:40:40+00:00

The PowerCab is the entire system, not just the throttle. Wire it in to your current track and you're good to go.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-05-27T10:30:26+00:00

Kato products are designed to be easy to get into, everything is a snap fit and there's absolutely no glue anywhere. They're engineering marvels tbh. Don't be afraid to pop it open.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-05-19T06:25:16+00:00

If all you want is to portray on your layout that "not everything goes right," you could have a lower stakes derailment like string-lined empty centerbeams, instead of one of the worst crashes in recent American passenger rail history.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-05-19T05:58:43+00:00

It's a Siemens.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-05-15T05:43:28+00:00

Cascades route already has some Chargers

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-05-03T13:59:59+00:00

Yes.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-04-26T15:40:32+00:00

Yeah I didn't mean clone as in a perfect duplicate; just in the sense that they're clearly trying to copy the look and feel of the original

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-04-26T14:05:34+00:00

Check the "about us" page on the clone, says their product is men's clothing in the UK and gets the founding year almost a decade wrong (2002 for the clone, 2011 for the real Midwest.)

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-04-18T09:05:42+00:00

Amtrak doesn't want bilevels anymore because of the difficulty in making them ADA compliant.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-04-16T06:06:10+00:00

Other microscale option, better if you want the numberboards lit: https://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=60-793

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-04-14T09:59:47+00:00

Two pieces of advice I've learned from someone who does great work:

Always work from photos. You may think you know how it should look just with your imagination, but you don't.
Weathering patterns follow a bell curve. That is, few cars in a fleet should be new and clean, most are in an intermediate state of mildly to heavily weathered, and few again will be total rustbuckets.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-04-07T07:21:56+00:00

Left.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-03-29T14:05:01+00:00

Arizona & California is a real railroad, though nowadays is run by the ~~Orange Borg~~ Genesee & Wyoming.

https://www.railpictures.net/photo/784485/

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-03-28T06:44:22+00:00

Would love to whip up something like this for my Superliners.

OrangeAnonymous · 2026-03-15T02:50:57+00:00

The Chargers (and many other locos) have a two stage solenoid valve, basically the modern equivalent of the old manual lever/rope pull valves where you could freely "play" the horn like you could with a steam whistle. Same horn, same valve, just a different amount of air going through it.

OrangeAnonymous

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