Into the Abyss...

Thats how it starts...  its like operating a real MODEL of a train.  Congratulations!

Super O Bob posted:

Thats how it starts...  its like operating a real MODEL of a train.  Congratulations!

Yep. All that "made in USA" PW (and Pre-War) stuff was - and sometimes still is - pretty cool, but this new stuff, the accuracy, the dynamics, the potential "features" (if you're into that; I'm not) - that's why I'm here in this hobby. Had accurate (as possible) 3RO Hi-Rail never happened, all those thousands of dollars of mine would have gone somewhere else - and not into 1950's hardware.

Command. You need TMCC/Legacy Lite. All of a sudden you are talking to your locomotive, and not your track, a Somehow that makes a huge difference. And no more of that F-N-R business. Besides, some of the early modern stuff did not care for conventional control.

The new ones aren't anvils, like the old ones, but most of them work long and well and have no zinc problems. 

Mark,

That is a good-looking locomotive.

I understand fully how you feel. When I got back into O gauge model railroading 21 years ago, I went to a local train show and saw an MTH Premier New York Central Hudson. I thought it was so beautiful that I just had to have it. As I recall, the price was around $900. I brought it home, put it in a glass case on my desk and admired it for months every time I sat down. But I also thought that I must be crazy to spend that much on a model locomotive. And I thought I would not spend any more. I still have that Hudson - not for sale. The rest is history. Welcome to the club and good luck

MELGAR

It starts with one little Atlantic, but it quickly spirals out of control!

John,

If that's the entire collection, I would say that you have not quite fallen all the way into the abyss... But it is a nice collection...

MELGAR

That's maybe half the locomotives, none of the 80-90 passenger cars or hundreds of rolling stock are represented.  I suspect they're not going to fit all on shelves, even when I get the bigger shelves up!

D500 posted:

Yep. All that "made in USA" PW (and Pre-War) stuff was - and sometimes still is - pretty cool, but this new stuff, the accuracy, the dynamics, the potential "features" (if you're into that; I'm not) - that's why I'm here in this hobby. Had accurate (as possible) 3RO Hi-Rail never happened, all those thousands of dollars of mine would have gone somewhere else - and not into 1950's hardware.

I'm starting to see that now... 

Command. You need TMCC/Legacy Lite. All of a sudden you are talking to your locomotive, and not your track, a Somehow that makes a huge difference. And no more of that F-N-R business. Besides, some of the early modern stuff did not care for conventional control.

I'm starting to see that too! I've got it on the track, and when it wants to, it runs very well. But it can't seem to decide if it wants to run, or in which direction. Sometimes it takes several (2-3) applications of power to get it to change direction; other times the "F-N-R" sequence works as its suppose to.

The new ones aren't anvils, like the old ones, but most of them work long and well and have no zinc problems. 

I suspect you are correct on those points as well.

I will "play" with this for a while, just to see if I can figure it out; I'd hate to have to gut it like I did my 2-8-0, although that runs great now on straight DC. I  know I'd lose some very cool features, like the lit marker lamps on engine and tender...

This model, like the Consol, was made in Korea. Although some of the details are not as "fine" as on the 2-8-0 (which was made 2 years later), it is a beautiful piece of machinery and am thrilled to have both!