Very clever with the nails and groove

Hey Terry! Thanks for the shout out! I have the same gripe with the hoods and the weight of the car. Which both issues can be alleviated with a little work (if you're wanting to run the car empty with no hoods). But, overall a beautiful and much needed freight car.

Great video Terry!

It has been a while, viewing your video

Another good review, Terry!

Nice review, Terry! The Waterloo RR (WLO reporting marks, an IC paper subsidiary) had several of these old CAGY boxcars. I need to pick up one.

How many trains per day run here?

Terry! Good to see you buddy. I always loved the freight cars that Exactrail offered. It was a shame they couldn't stay afloat, but I'm glad ScaleTrains was able to keep the line alive. Great video, I hope to see you again soon, take care, Dave B.

But surely it would be better if it was powered otherwise you are just dragging around another wagon or box car equivalent... run the wires to the edge of the loco and attach a plug and then a small pair of wires to the front loco and a plug and then plug the both together then you have extra track pick ups and 2 motors pulling instead of just one...

I like Walthers Proto 2000 metal wheel sets better than Intermountain. I've tried both and prefer the Walthers. Kadee's are a must for my rolling stock and have to be body mounted. I also save all those plastic wheel sets and plastic knuckle couplers for future gondola and flatcar loads. I also always check coupler height with the Kadee gauge and make sure the rolling stock is up to NMRA weight standards. Cheers from eastern TN

Damn that's a good idea! I'm definitely going to be building one of these. Three points of contact reminds me of fire academy 😅

I've never used the SMD LED's. I use either 3mm or 5mm LED's depending on what I'm doing with them. For illuminating coaches I always use 12 volt LED strip lighting with keep alive circuits. The first strip of LED lights I ordered the bright white which were actually too bright for my liking and the period that I model. So, I painted each LED with some yellow acrylic paint and now they are perfect. The next strip of LED's I ordered were warm white. One learns from ones mistakes. I even use the LED bulb itself for a lens most of the time. Cheers from eastern TN

Thank you for this lesson!

Thank you for sharing these ideas. Just starting my first ever model train layout (N-scale, 5'x14') and will be making and using these in multiple places on my layout. Thank you! Liked/subscribed.

Terry great to see you my brother! Keep up the great work! Let me know if you can do a video one day with the MTH engine I sent you -Michael Thornton

good review, It does have two problems. 1. It is not N scale 2. It is note jade/turquoise/teal green Green with PC PennCentral markings on it.

This 'solution' misses the major weak point in the Atlas and many other turnout designs. That weak point is where the point rails are connected to the closure rails. The small tabs on the backs of the point rails that are folded inside of the contact holes on the closure rails are a problem waiting to happen. Many people have said that they have never had a problem with power flowing through the point rails, but I wonder how many of those people are talking about turnouts that have been in place for long time periods. What should be added to the Atlas and other turnouts are jumpers between the closure rails and the point rails. This is easier said than done, but it will guarantee that you will never have an electrical contact failure in the turnouts.

post cards,, now that is a cool idea.

Wair did you by your diecast fire truck?

awesome video new sub thx for the post,😊😊👍👍

I like the Video.I'm trying to do all in Nscale

Still a great video. Nice idea using Excel.

Thank you very much I was having issues wiring 12v lights and just needed to make an adjustment. Your video def helps!!!!

nice

First - Thank you so much for your time and instructions Very inspiring! Second - I learned that you have sunglasses under your sunglasses Dude - so hilarious are you!! Thanks again We’ll done

Well here I am in 2023 finally getting around to doing this myself, I watched this years ago. Is this the dsm8 narrow speaker? Also wondering what lights I should get..I know there are lots of options today! My bachmann gp40 has a resistor on the negative side of the motor that I also have not decided if I should remove or not. wondering if it was on yours too. Very nice build! Glad I still have this as a reference.

Noce run-by of weathered rolling stock Terry!

Very nice catch. I like the racks and stacks saying

Terry, not many left but always good to have a shop nearby cheers Robert

I have an Athearn GP38-2 that I got from a train show way back in the 90s. It's a Conrail. Do you think it could be the same thing? Came in a good-ol' blue box. I was maybe 10 years old at that time. Maybe 13 at the oldest. It was daunting having to put it together.

Appreciate you sharing this video and information. You inspired me to make my own DIY Cleaning pot.

Thanks for sharing this information. Enjoyed learning something useful and simple enough to make ! Nice storage system. I visited your channel for 1st time ! I’m now a subscriber, too.

Great train catches Terry!

Nice railfanning video Terry!

Awesome railfanning video! Thanks for sharing! Greetings 🙋‍♂️👍

I haven't watched your videos for awhile, but I'm getting back into the hobby and watching model RR stuff. Thanks for your great hobby advice and stellar RR content. -- Billy from PA now in VA

Great coverage here! It was a great show this year. You got me at 43 minutes in. 🤣

Sugarfire in the opening scene!!

Was this part of the NMRA convention? We were at the convention and national train show, but we missed this part! great video!

Conrail is such a cool looking company, I picked the same one up at a place called northlandz was it? he told me it runs fine funny enough, brought it back home put it on my track and it wouldn't run lol..

Thanks for showing my models! Great video.

Nice Video! MoPac Jack Kirkwood,Missouri

Nice job the bottoms exposed makes it easy to grab the color you’re looking for

Bummer I had to miss. Would have been fun to see ya again! Next year for sure!!

Great video. Now I see what all I missed!

Great job looks super and am ready to try - thank you again!!

I recently got one of the first generation athearn rtr locomotives which still had the old bluebox tooling and wiring. Any chance you would know how to turn the old electrical pickup from the trucks with that L shape bar for the positive into a modern athearn rtr pickup with wires on both sides?

Welcome back Terry glad to see you’re still doing videos

Great ideal Terry