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I CAN NOT DIAGNOSE equipment problems or ESTIMATE DOLLAR VALUES of your equipment, by email. I have been active in model railroading for forty years. I can answer, or find answers, to questions on most aspects of model trains, railroad equipment or buildings. I have a good knowledge of prototype railroads. I have been employed by five model railroad equipment manufacturers/suppliers and worked for a prototype railroad. I have served, twice, as the president of a local model railroad club. I have been employed as a Reference Librarian, at a university, for the last fifteen years and am used to tracking down resources for patrons.
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Recent Answers from Frank Edgcombe
2012-02-02 Overload light:
Hi! Richard. Thanks for your question. Tough to answer, could be a number of things. 1. Wiring to the track and from the transformer has become dislocated and is causing the overload. 2. There is something
2011-12-02 elena electronics pacific fast mail model railroad sound:
Hi! Sam Wow! Lucky you. I have never heard of the SL-1 sound device and know nothing about it. The Pacific Fast Mail was probably made about 25-30 years ago. I only have seen such a system on one layout
2011-11-27 Athearn HO series from 1957:
Hi! Donna. Thanks for your question. Your best bet to find their value (probably minimal) is to search on eBay to see if you can find a comparable locomotive and cars. If the locomotive has a set of
2011-11-21 model trains:
Hi! Gustav. Thanks for your question. I'm not an expert on DCC at all. I don't think you need to cut anything for DCC as long as you isolate the two loops with turnouts that do not have live frogs
2011-11-19 train powersuplies:
Hi! Jay. Thanks for your question. Sorry on the delay on the answer, away for a few days. Lionel, O scale does run on 18 volts AC. With permanent magnet motors as in HO and N Scale which runs on 12
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