Hi All, Yesterday we spent a wonderful day at the Stafford Convention Center here in Texas running, displaying, and selling train stuff. The Houston S Gaugers set up a 16' by 22' layout, right at the front of the show entrance. We had a fantastic turn-out. The show ran from 10am to 5pm, but by about 4p the crowds had gone.
This was also the public debut of my recently completed PRR RS-1 engine. The engine ran for about 6 hours without any problems. The rear truck derailed at this one spot the first three or four times around the layout. I think that was due to the stiffness of the wires picking up power from the rear truck. As they got worn in, the problem went away. For the last hour I ran the engine backwards to really work in the gearing. The North Yard chassis performed flawlessly. No parts broke off of the body, and transporting the engine back and forth left it unscathed. I didn't turn up the volume of the sound decoder loud enough, so people had to get up close to be able to hear it. That's a lesson learned for the next show. I took some photos and one video and posted them on the Houston S Gaugers web site. To view them, go to: http://www.houstonsgaugers.org/ then click on "Events", then click on the first entry under "Past Events". The video is at the bottom of the page. Enjoy, - Peter. -- Peter Vanvliet ([email protected], or [email protected]) Houston, Texas "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>) http://fourthray.com/ (my company) http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club) -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
