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>>6536
what's the best EMD and why is it the SD70MAC
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R No.6604
>>6603
This isn't entirely true. There are objective and quantifiable reasons why Gensets suck. I've of the biggest reasons is that railroads will often cheap out on maintenance by letting a locomotive enter service with one engine inoperable for whatever reason, thus leaving the train with, effectively, 1/3rd less of a locomotive, or even half of a locomotive if you're unfortunate enough to be running one of the older ones with two engines in it.
Also, the lag in getting power is a bummer. It's easy enough to forget that, even though an EMD or a GE won't get you power *instantly*, they'll still get power to the rail a lot quicker than a Genset that has to start up one or two engines before it can produce the extra amperage.
Also one of the manufacturers went out of business and stopped supporting existing customers so if you have any unusual issues, especially with the programming of the computers, you're just shit out of luck. This is how we end up with things like a locomotive that shuts down for fuel conservation purposes after only being idle for about 40 seconds, and will not restart unless you drop all the breakers, pull the knife switch, wait a minute, and then start it all back up again. All you should have to do is just move the reverser out of neutral and then it's supposed to start back up automatically, but because the idle limiter is borked, we end up leaving it in forward all day and running the engines even when we're sitting at a red signal for a few hours.
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is there still manual post approval on this board
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>>4526
Thread restarted after a devastating flood of poorly drawn wojaks wiped out the entire catalog in one fell swoop.
(Also testing if the youtube embeds are still post stamp sized.)
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>>6516
Half of these boards are dead, with no backups in sight.
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2816 is leaving for Mexico from a few kilometers away from me on the 24th, and I desperately need to be somewhere in the other direction because the flood of foam is going to be unlike anything in recent history
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So, what's the latest on Alstom fucking over my tax dolalr?
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In case anyone is not up to date on the story you can google Hobo Shoestring Mark Nichols. JCPD and the TBI are set to hold a press conference either later today or tomorrow and the search has been called off. A fisherman has discovered a body in the lake by Hobo's house earlier today.
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R No.6583
RIP Shoestring
>>6578
Stobe, he got killed in the Baltimore area in Nov 2017
Last I heard the story was he got dragged or fell while crossing an overpass, not actually riding
Anyone know any details?
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Modellers, check in.
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R No.6562
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Still here, still doin the Lego Train thing. I've given up on the "purism" that many Lego enthusiasts value; now I buy parts from the higher-quality clone brands, and I've even painted a few pieces here and there.
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R No.6565
>>6562
An average of one train set a year from Lego is enough to just barely maintain "L-gauge" being a thing but not enough for the hobby to grow on its own
We should realistically never expect more wheels, buffers, track pieces -- especially now that third-party companies took it upon themselves to fulfill all Lego train modeller's needs to a high quality standard
Purism is dead if you want to get anywhere in Lego trains -- go wild
(that being said the Orient Express passenger cars is a high point and a highlight of the last several years, and it's an indication the niche seems profitable enough for Lego to keep occasionally putting these gems into production)
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