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Yard lights and night shots
I installed and wired (3) Lionel 16-bulb floodlights on the layout today. I wanted to place them so at they lighted the yard and industrial areas as best they could without flooding the town and Main Street with extra light. These shots were taken only by the lights on the layout. They look ok on…
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Dead end street gets life
Last year I created Main Street in my town. At one end, there was an awkward space near the entrance to the yard where another full size building would not fit. Also, Main Street came to a dead end and looked silly. I thought for a long time on what to do with it. In…
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Mobile Home dude can now park!
Last year I created a mobile home scene, but never finished it. Well now the dude who lives there has a road to get to his home and a lot to park in. Finally He’s been parking along Main Street and walking across the grass in his yard for over a year. I put up…
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MTH P&LE SW1500 Switcher
I was at a train sale over the weekend and as I was standing in line to checkout, this MTH PS2 Pittsburgh & Lake Erie SW1500 switcher was sitting on the table with a sticker on it that said “PS2!! $99”. It was all dusty and the handrails were bent, but I’ve been looking for…
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Lionel Legacy SD-60
I picked up a new Lionel Legacy SD-60 in Burlington Northern livery. As reported in my previous blog post, I had an initial problem with the one motor’s flywheel scraping the inside of the shell. I showed how I resolved this problem in a video in that blog post and since then this has been…
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Honky Tonk – Lenny Kay Revue – 1999
Lenny Kay Revue playing Honky Tonk in 1999. Personnel was Lenny Kay on drums, Lenny Younger on Sax, Bob Mentzer on keyboard and bass. Honky Tonk
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Lionel Legacy SD-60 Scraping Sound
Here’s a problem I had with a new in the box Lionel Legacy Burlington Northern SD-60 Engine (6-28312). After carefully unpacking and doing an initial oil, lube, and smoke fluid, the first run allowed me to enjoy a scraping sound coming from the rear motor/truck area. Given my recent history with poor build quality on…
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Cannot add MTH PS2 engine to DCS – Engine Error
Just a quick note on a problem I had when attempting to add a new MTH PS2 engine to my DCS roster. I could hear the new engine’s insides “click” when I applied power to the track, and there were no lights or sounds so I was satisfied the engine heard the DCS watchdog signal…
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