Went by Arnie's in Westminster, CA for the first time looking for Athearn Challenger parts, came back with some extras.
Not pictured: the Challenger rear drive assembly I was looking for and three uncoupler track segments.
Since for obvious reasons everyone is doing Big Boys, tossing in my BLI 4014 pulling lots of well cars
Take two, hopefully it works this time.
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Not a Paragon equipped locomotive, I'm using a Soundtraxx decoder in this one. Slight volume warning.
Signal progress slow, but steady...
Now Atlas needs to just hurry up and start making control boards again since they seem like they have been refusing to for the longest time :/
Does anyone else repurpose old unusable locomotives into little preservation units on display near their passenger station?
Been inactive on this platform so first post back in a long time
Not pictured: the Kato GWR Class 800/0 Paddington set I bought on the same day as everything in the second photo. I was on the search for high noses at the show from the first pic and had fairly great luck. Ended up with some pretty unique things and a few great deals!
Both tunnel motors already converted to DCC and the N&W SD35 (to my surprise, since the vendor didn't mention it) came with DCC already installed