American Models diesel consist moving through my American Flyer crossover

Slow & Smooth!

Rich

Ray, are they operating conventional or TMCC? I assume two of the three engines are powered, correct? That is the first time I have seen your customized Gilbert turnouts in action. They look good and make a less obvious "S" curve through the crossover.

Tom,

The FAs are TMCC, the Cruise Lite is in the B, and yes both As are powered. Yes, thanks for the comments, l am so happy that the Gilbert turnouts came out so well.

Ray

@richabr posted:

Slow & Smooth!

Rich

Rich,

Yeah, you know I like running the trains slow, when we had the layout tour after S Fest folks commented that they liked to see the trains run slow. We had two passenger trains running on the outside loop, basically an oval and two relatively long freights running on the inside loop, a dogbone which is layed over itself, so slow running was important.

Ray

Love it.

Verry nice.........But how did you remove the light box on thee switches?

Jackie

Jackie, and Ray, I bumped an old thread to answer Jackie's question.

Hello Ray:

The image links are broke when I try to view your last post.

Andre

I guess when I moved this post something got messed up. I'll try adding the image here.

Ray

I have deleted my previous post, hope that this will be better, jeepers I wish I knew more about computers.

I have eliminated a topic that should have been here in the first place and move that post here.

As has been mentioned on the forum previously I have a layout that uses original AF track. The IMRR North Prairie division has a good amount of motive power, including post war Flyer, Flyonel, both conventional and TMCC/Legacy plus some American Models and S Helper. I had found in trying to run the A.M. consists through the Flyer switches on my cross-overs was a problem. These locomotives whether coupled with the dummy couplers or the Kadee couplers couldn't negotiate the cross-overs, and this is unacceptable. I found the solution to be quite simple, just go back and look at what Mr. Gilbert did with the first PA/PB combinations, the simple drawbar. My solution uses a 2-56x3/16" round head screw in the A unit going through a piece plastic or fiber cut to size mimicking the spacing of f the Kadee couplers. On B I used a longer 2-56 screw and cut off the head, making it a pin on one end and doing on the other end as l did on the A-unit. The trailing A-unit received the longer screw with the head removed. By using the pin on one end of each unit made for easier assembly and disassembly of the consist. I found also by narrowing the arm of the dummy coupler on the trailing A-unit all the derailing of the following car was eliminated.

Ray

Excellent Job Ray!  Did you have a cornfield meeting?  Sounds like both engines stopped.

@Francine posted:

Excellent Job Ray!  Did you have a cornfield meeting?  Sounds like both engines stopped.

Francine,

No cornfield meet, the FA consist went into the reversing loop, then back to the outer loop.

Ray

Hi Ray,

Just wondering, as the train sound stopped before the end of the video.

@Francine posted:

Hi Ray,

Just wondering, as the train sound stopped before the end of the video.

I did stop the Challenger, kind of tough to watch trains and handle the phone camera all at one time. I had to back up the FAs as they went beyond the entry point of the reverse loop. You are on to top of things Francine, I need to pay more attention to my editing on this forum. Thank you for making me a little sharper.

Ray

Ray,

Details make it work, and you are a master of detail.  Keep up the good work.