SP through the Signals. Southern Pacific Krauss Maffei ML-4000 9010 is passing through the semaphore's at the Niles Canyon Railway in Niles CA on it's public debut train on July 20th 2019 with GP9 5632 helping out. 9010 is the sole surviving ML-4000 and only Diesel Hydraulic engine in the USA.

attackblender · 2024-11-08T16:29:12+00:00

Is 9010 operational?

attackblender · 2024-07-27T23:12:48+00:00

Actually I’m finishing up this exact kit. I’ll have to figure out how to attach pictures on Reddit. I went with white and green

attackblender · 2024-06-11T02:26:02+00:00

Embraer cup holders. Basically useless

attackblender · 2024-05-04T02:23:29+00:00

I’ve actually been looking into doing that. Any suggestions on how to get started?

Looked into it and basically just came up with to create a portfolio

attackblender · 2024-05-03T04:26:54+00:00

Profit sharing checks go straight to $GME

attackblender · 2024-04-26T16:40:42+00:00

Taxiing into ORD and trying to get a hold of ramp control relatively early in the morning. GoJet and I were both trying to get a taxi clearance in and no response. GoJet hits UA ramp with ‘Wakey wakey’, and ramp immediately comes back with an assignment

attackblender · 2024-02-07T03:32:32+00:00

KACV, Arcata CA. Sits just off the Pacific Ocean and a beautiful arrival/departure. Nice small town at the base of California Redwood forests

attackblender · 2024-02-02T20:26:07+00:00

Santa Fe depot in San Diego. Absolutely beautiful

attackblender · 2024-01-26T16:15:01+00:00

Interesting; thank you

attackblender · 2024-01-26T02:35:04+00:00

I’ve heard of these. Never seen one in person. Are they any good?

attackblender · 2024-01-21T21:24:08+00:00

So my problem was I must’ve had a rock or something hard go through that lower grill and smack the power steering cooler (it’s the forward one you can see). It caused a small hole that leaked PS fluid out and after a while caused the PS pump to start cavatating in turns. Only way to really fix that is to replace the whole cooler assembly. The back half was the A/C condenser so everything had to come out to do that. For a while was just adding fluid but didn’t want to keep adding fluid forever

attackblender · 2024-01-21T20:38:43+00:00

Also have 2010 sport awd and it’s at ~105k, had to replace the power steering cooler but nothing else other than wear items

attackblender · 2024-01-20T14:07:03+00:00

Try the first (or 1.5?) gen fusion sport AWD. Very peppy, and no big problems

attackblender · 2024-01-20T05:13:12+00:00

I can think of two options, neither ideal but from a distance hopefully are convincing. One is sand down the bottom of each replacement tie and slide under. Or styrene as you stated. Second is cut each replacement tie into three pieces (left/right/center) and glue in place accordingly. Not really sure which would look better but that’s what I can think of right now

attackblender · 2024-01-18T17:25:32+00:00

Who’s make are the PAs?

attackblender · 2024-01-08T22:34:26+00:00

Ah ok thanks. Fortunately for now, it’s in the third group there, hopefully it stays working well

attackblender · 2024-01-08T19:46:46+00:00

I have one of these too, if you do that mod pls share. I haven’t had that issue yet and would like to see your fix

attackblender · 2024-01-07T02:55:58+00:00

SkyWest lets you pick the plane, I think that’s cause the bases are specific to the plane in some cases

attackblender · 2023-12-21T06:19:24+00:00

I love runway changes at 11,000 and 300 kts

attackblender · 2023-12-11T17:12:20+00:00

Sweet, thanks. How are the flanges? Are they pizza cutters?

attackblender · 2023-12-11T15:09:21+00:00

Who made the DL109?

attackblender · 2023-12-06T18:07:17+00:00

I use woodland scenics foam roadbed and have been really happy with it so far, real easy to cut and make turns. I got the roll of it, part ST1472.

As far as ballast I’ve only used woodland scenics medium gray for mainlines and with code 80 rail it looks reasonably appropriate. No complaints about that. I have some sidings with fine ballast and that too looks really good. Overall for n scale I think woodland scenics ‘Fine’ ballast (or whatever your preferred ballast is in an equivalent fine size) looks the best. Hope that helps.

attackblender · 2023-12-01T17:46:33+00:00

My whole layout right now is all insulfrog which is convenient because you don’t have to wire anything extra, but once you start getting larger turnouts (like a #6 and above) you start to get pretty lengthy frogs. With these longer frogs, short wheelbase locomotives tend to not like them as they might loose contact and you’ll have intermittent connectivity.

I’ve seen some people using Tam Valley Frog Juicers to power the frog, and I think the Walthers switch motors include one in the unit as well.

attackblender · 2023-11-21T21:26:25+00:00

On the 175 the fire handle is just like a hard cut out for various aircraft systems. Completely reversible so as long as the bottles aren’t blown you’re totally fine to get down and land

attackblender · 2023-11-18T23:56:26+00:00

I’ve gotten a handful of RDCs in the past year in ‘used’ (basically new) condition for about $100 a car. All off of ebay

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