Sound and Power...........Train stuff

Marleysky wrote:Yur right! Love to see your handiwork!  For someone like me who has a difficult time hooking up a glowhead correctly, that looks like rocket science.   Besides saving your lips and throat from having to make all those sounds yourself. Good job.

wooo wooo, chug, chug, choo choo.  

Thanks guys but it's simple DC - positive/negative black wires to - white to + you can't go wrong.  Switches are just repetitive, do one the rest are the same.  Believe me, I'm working a 83 year old brain here, if it wasn't simple I couldn't do it.

It's this that drives me nut's hooking all this stuff up in test mode.  Old fumble fingers.



Remote speakers under the layout help distribute sound.

getback wrote:Man i wish you would do YouTube so we could hear Its not that hard But i do understand Toot Toot back at U

Your wish is my command.  

Just not my stuff:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+mrc+sound+and+power&docid=607986310857622454&mid=B05FECA4B3F7AC54E678B05FECA4B3F7AC54E678&view=detail&FORM=VIRE

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getback wrote:Nice !!  
Thank You

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+mrc+sound+and+power&&view=detail&mid=FB092EA9FD423CFDC235FB092EA9FD423CFDC235&rvsmid=7F8F35B846B3E64042717F8F35B846B3E6404271&FORM=VDQVAP

Maybe someday Ron.  But right now I enjoy buying junk engines and fixing them up just like I used to do with Enya, Cox and other engines.  

That yellow Consolidated above by Bowser with a Varney Vanderbilt tender just needed a little tweaking to become a great runner.  About two pounds it's quite heavy but is so smooth and near silent as it runs along.  

Did you ever complete that three dimensional layout you pictured awhile ago?

I contributed to a thread over on the model train forum and caught some grief (telltale) regarding the plainness of my layout.    Not hard to find me rsv1ho. Telltale caught some backlash from the peanut gallery but I had no problem with it. Everyone has their own opinion.

https://www.modeltrainforum.com/threads/transferring-from-plan-onto-plywood.192194/

Different bunch over there.

getback wrote:boy that is ONE difference buch there anyway

Actually that thread is rather mild. More back stabbing than back slapping goes on there. Lot's to know about model railroading and many books have been written on the subject. I just swim on the surface. But there are good guys as well, eager to help novices.

Ken Cook wrote:             Bob, in the beginning of the post on your first picture there's a small 0.4.0 with a reddish brown barrel roof. I believe I own that particular train which is made by AHM. It was my dad's and it was one of his favorites that is until I ran it in reverse and threw the forward switch and it wheelied. It went off the table nose first and it broke the front light and boiler door off the front. He never forgot it and I think I'm going to do some searching for a new one as he still lets me know I broke it.

Your right Ken, only it was made in Italy by Rivarossi for AHM and sold through AHM who did the marketing.  

It's a remarkable little engine and for being just a 0-4-0 it will pull all the ore cars that I can fit behind it.   Easy to set on the track too, no leading or trailing trucks to center.  

I have at least three, one had a missing boiler door that I replaced with a Roosevelt dime, the one hauling the cars.  It's hitched up to the Sound and Power transformer.  




It would cost ya just a dime to fix yours.    Those doors are impossible to find, I know, I tried.

Edit add.  So naturally I had to go looking for one.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/P-132-001-AKA-P-134-002-BOILER-FRONT-0-4-0-SHIFTER-AHM-RIVAROSSI-HO-SCALE-NEW/124160070113?hash=item1ce88451e1:g:sV4AAOSw5JFenRZf

$19.95 plus shipping.  About what I paid for a whole engine.  But, checking prices on them now......gone up since I bought - now run from a low of $55.00 to $165.59 UK.

Bob