[Boston&Maine]

Here is a teaser picture of my latest purchase... I will get some better ones later... This is a 15 year old virgin so to speak... It is like 45" long!

 

[tjcruiser]

Wow ... looks pristine!

 

[imatt88]

WOW Way cool.....:thumbsup:

 

[T-Man]

Mighty fancy piece of iron you got there, partner. Looks Great!.

Now, can you zap the guy trying to sell tankist a prom dress! I think he's weakening!

 

[Boston&Maine]

I opened the A and B units up today to grease them... In the B unit, the smoke unit is mounted to the shell, so even after taking the shell off of the frame it was still connected via the wires... So, I took off the wire nuts that were on the two wires going to the smoke unit and replaced them with insulated quick disconnects :smokin:

Anyways, this is a PS1 locomotive... This system is so labor intensive compared to PS2... Other members around here in the past have reported problems with trying to get the locomotive to move for the first time... Well, I feel their pain! It took me like 15 minutes of fooling with the controller to finally figure out how to get it to start consistantly... By the way, the instruction booklet was wrong, or at least what they said to do did not work for me

But, overall they run nice... Now I just need to get a set of passenger cars for it - $$$ hwell:

 

[Reckers]

Mighty fancy piece of iron you got there, partner. Looks Great!.

Now, can you zap the guy trying to sell tankist a prom dress! I think he's weakening!

Tankist is trying to buy a prom dress???:laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

[T-Man]

We had some spam.

One ad tried to sell me a purse!

Thanks B&M! We appreciate the work!

 

[tjcruiser]

:smokin:

While I usually chirp in on these threads babbleing something about trains, I'm going to digress here for a moment ...

:smokin: <==== Just wanted to say that that's the COOLEST emotithingy I've ever seen!!!

TJ

 

[Stillakid]

That's a beautiful set. Incredible detail, and she looks like she could pull any and all of my cars What's her overall length?

 

[Boston&Maine]

45"

 

[Big Ed]

I opened the A and B units up today to grease them... In the B unit, the smoke unit is mounted to the shell, so even after taking the shell off of the frame it was still connected via the wires... So, I took off the wire nuts that were on the two wires going to the smoke unit and replaced them with insulated quick disconnects :smokin:

Anyways, this is a PS1 locomotive... This system is so labor intensive compared to PS2... Other members around here in the past have reported problems with trying to get the locomotive to move for the first time... Well, I feel their pain! It took me like 15 minutes of fooling with the controller to finally figure out how to get it to start consistantly... By the way, the instruction booklet was wrong, or at least what they said to do did not work for me

But, overall they run nice... Now I just need to get a set of passenger cars for it - $$$ hwell:

It helps to read the instruction manual.
Though they should be right?:laugh:

When I first went to start my Milwaukee road set I was wondering if it was broken. Then I read the instructions.
Are you set up with some kind of command control?
I am just running off my transformer.

Nice diesel!:thumbsup:

 

[Boston&Maine]

No, I am just running off my controller too... The instructions say not to turn the power up past 10 volts before trying to leave the "RESET" phase, but I could not get it to work unless I applied more that 10 volts

 

[Big Ed]

No, I am just running off my controller too... The instructions say not to turn the power up past 10 volts before trying to leave the "RESET" phase, but I could not get it to work unless I applied more that 10 volts

What kind of transformer?
I'm running the 275 watt ZW and they have the separate control to set the volts.
Maybe it's your transformer not putting out the correct volts on your setting?

Just a guess. I am still learning about these new fangled electronics on the newer trains.
I noticed one thing though.

When I took down the trestles and replaced all my curves with 54's the Milwaukee road set ran a whole lot stronger?
It seems like the 27's curves had something to do with it. Not just negotiating the curves but the power the engine received?
Unless one of the old 27's curves had a bad connection.
But other older trains ran fine on them just the new stuff didn't seem to have enough power getting to them.

All run well now that I set the track back down level and put in the 54's curves all run strong and now I can run the big stuff now too.:thumbsup:

 

[Boston&Maine]

I only have a MTH Z1000 (100 watt), which is just a simple controller... I have a dot on it where it is 10 volts because that is where you charge the MTH batteries at :laugh: