Atlanta Brits

There was a demonstration layout operating in our area (Portland, Oregon) for a little while that used some locomotives made in Germany in the mid-1980s. Not sure if the manufacturer is still around or not. I remember the name starting with K and being about 20 syllables long.

The HO scale steam Pacific operated a lot like the real thing: no motor gears to interfere, so the train had "real" momentum to work with. There was no motor noise and so it was amazing how quiet the locomotive was.

EXCEPT....

There was an electric injection pump in the tender that was used to pump the water into the tender. When first starting out, this pump made quite a loud clacking sound, but then later would settle down to the point where it would only make the occasional clack as it was only making up water that had been lost during operation.

I was fairly impressed with the operation, but the locomotive was quite expensive, of course.

Sounds like a tool of the - tada! - Devil!!!

Sorry I asked! The one we use is Hornby, and it works very well using 18v from the track to heat the water and the valves etc are controled by pulses sent down the track similar to DCC If all you guys are like this, I take back my offer...........

Rob, don't let one ill mannered person drive you away. Stay a while and get to know how good this board is when there is a productive discussion.

Frank A. Rosenbaum spake thus:

Frank, don't make the same mistake that other idiot made. This isn't a "board"; it's a Usenet newsgroup. (You knew that.)

You are correct. I just equate this with the old bulletin boards that I accessed ages ago.

Boy, I miss those tag lines

Rob Kemp skriver:

Belive me, We're not.

It's jusy one sorry Curt who haven't got any sex for the last 5 yeas and now he has found someone to let his bitterness out over.

Klaus

Oh, every newsgroup has its idiots. Its one of the unfortunate items about a medium where there is little control....

Though, there is one person who has successfully gotten themselves banned from most news servers, but he was a particuarly extreme case.

No, we're not. Someone came in here after walking through the park, and unforatunately he had some "curt" stuck to the bottom of his shoes.

No, we're not. Someone came in here after walking through the park, and unfortunately he had some "curt" stuck to the bottom of his shoes.

Yeah, that sounds familiar. I think it may be same outfit that built the Austrian engine I mentioned, and I was mistaken about their country of origin.

Cheers,

Mark.

If you look at my signature line below you will see that I DO run one of those old boards still. As for Tag lines.. Hmm let me see if I can dredge one up for you.

... 1024x768x256... Sounds like one MEAN woman!

Like all Usenet groups in my experience (since 1998 or so) there's for sure a ratio of psycho:rational in rmr. I'm mostly a lurker here and it seems like most participants are very helpful.

Tejas Pedro

Steve this is a train board. Why are you so anal retentive about usenet name?

Get over it a board is a board is a board.

David who is us> Frank A. Rosenbaum spake thus:

That it makes no sense *to you* is exactly my point.

Get back to the group when you actually have some useful information or a question pertinent to model railroading. Until then...

Tejas Pedro

You're right. I mentioned several days ago that I'd killfiled "Curt" and all I was seeing was others responding to his posts. I wish all of us would killfile him and then I wouldn't have to even see the responses.

And he'd lose his reason for posting and go away.