https://youtu.be/8sPsRB-urFw For this locomotive, the customer wished to run it with Airwire while retaining the original Phoenix sound-card, he also wanted chuffed smoke. the battery, along with the other electronics are mounted in the tender, I designed mounting brackets for the battery and electronics. to achieve the pulsed smoke I used a Massoth smoke generator …
one of my customers, who primarily models her railroad after the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina railroad, or simply ET&WNC nicknamed the Tweetsie. as per her request, she wanted her a LGB 0-4-0 locomotive with it's powered tender based upon a European locomotive that was modeled from a locomotive that runs in the Harz …
nearly complete - this is a museum quality build without a true visual comparison and listed details, it's sort of difficult to imagine that this shay started life as a 1st generation Bachmann Shay, basket case locomotive. for this up-date I made custom brass, railings around the wood load, and a new brass screen for …
This presently is something I'm adding, I do not have prices setup. 3D printing: often times within model trains, speakers are placed wherever is convenient, as a resault they do not always provide the best quality acoustics. installers that are conscious about this, will often try to use the best speakers possible while making speaker …
Thanks to 3D printing. and the efforts of Robert Andrews, who detest double-sided tape, which is commonly used for mounting batteries and boards in model trains. He designed and printed different mounts for switches and batteries for different applications. so, when it came to installing Airwire RCC into his F3's as well as building a …
Respectively these units are numbered 24L, 24A, 24B & 24C. These models are very high detailed 1:32 or gauge one scaled models made by USA Trains of EMD F3 locomotives painted with the Santa Fe warbonnet livery, the owner wanted, Airwire RCC with Pheonix sound card installed in the units. with custom 3d printed battery …
To Start, these are very attractive models, designed after one of the most common designs, of a rod type steam locomotive that people think of when they think of a steam-powered locomotive. These models are no exception, they were designed to be attractive with what is called the Russian iron colored boiler jacket, brass fixtures, …
During the turn of the last century, an artist by the name of Edward H Mitchell, of San Fransico, California, drew several postcards depicting oversized, primarily fruits on rail cars. Today, the owner of this car, Catherine Yronwode, has collected many of the postcards and also created a train based upon those postcards. my challenge was to …
This LGB Locomotive is based upon, the Narrow Guage, Alaskan railroad called the White Pass & Yukon Railroad. the railroad was formed in the late 1800's as part of the Klondike gold rush, its a narrow gauge railroad that enjoys some of the most amazing scenery, today the railroad is a tourist train, with ride often …
This is now the 4th sound car that I've made for a customer. This particular sound car is made from a USA Trains Billboard Reefer it uses a phoenix sound card with the East Broad Top Sound project installed. The sound card picks it's power up from the tracks, it also has a speed sensor …
