A short video at the end of this update. I will not win any awards for cinematography.
The wayward Santa Fe war bonnet is from Dick Wegner's collection. I may need to change the name of the railroad and add Santa Fe at the end.
Spent most of the week checking and adjusting coupler heights, wheel gauge and weight and then repeatedly running the cars forward and reverse at varying speeds to find and resolve quite a number of issues. Got through 202 out of 252 freight cars I have which should be more than enough for a mini-operating session when we resume our get togethers.
Starting tomorrow I will work on the passenger cars. Then off to finalizing the design of the remainder of the upper level.
Testing out the 24 DCC equipped locos since most of them were laying boxes for many years.
Interesting results:
1 that totally lost its DCC mind but will run on DC. Needs a manual reset but I will have to get to the decoder by opening the tender
2 that cannot reset CV's 3 and 4 for momentum. They take up to 20 feet to stop. These are 20 year old Rivarrosi's with Arnold decoders which will be changed out
1 that needs the tender to be dis-assembled and re-assembled since the frame is not seated in the chassis. This is out of the box but also out of warranty.
1 has chuffing sounds fade out when it gets up to speed
1 that needs weight added over the drivers so it will pull more that 7 cars
1 that needs weight added to the tender
Here's the video. New York Central 4-6-4 Hudson pulling into Fuhgeddaboudit Yard with several heavyweights behind. Santa Fe passenger train on the mainline and a pair of Pennsy Centipedes hauling a long string of express and refrigerator cars.
