Friday, December 10, 2004

I snagged an 0-4-2 Porter off Ebay for motive power, a boxcar, a gon/flat and a caboose for rolling stock, they just arrived yesterday. I had heard that the Porter had a tendancy to stall on turnouts with plastic frogs such as ATLAS, but this one crawls even on some ancient Tyco switches that I used .

Began working on a series of hoppers based on my 7/8 scale 20 series. I started with a set of HO logcars I had leftover so that there was enough weight and the coupler pockets and the truck mounts are already molded in place. After the first three I'll have to build my own frames and figure out coupler pockets and truck mounts.

Hooked up an ARISTO TE to the On30 layout and it works awsome. Small scale RC is really neat. Got some EZ Mate couplers for the hoppers I'm building plus some styrene to build a flat car or two.