BRIGHT MODELS; "CANDY DANCER" POWER

Tom Tricep wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I believe your mean GANDY DANCER as common slang for track workers. "Candy Dancer" brings memories of Candy Barr, an exotic dancer of some note. Or we could merge the two concepts and and have a speeder painted in red and white stripes, with a stripper performing on the platform. But I don't suppose there are too many adult-themed model railroad layouts.

Depending upon the voltage needed to run the model properly, you may want to either use battery power or track power. I'll note that with analog voltage, the speed of the model iwll vary. If it will run properly on 12VDC then that is the way that I'd probably hook it up. I'd put wipers on the backsides of the wheels to pickup power - .015" diameter phospher bronse wire will work well or you can use some piano wire to do the pickup and the rest of the wiring will be trivial. Battery power will mean that you need to find a place to put the batteries of sufficient size, a power switch and a recharging port to recharge the batteries, the bottom of the model is usually the best place to put tha stuff.

-- Why do penguins walk so far to get to their nesting grounds?

Well, now that you've implanted the thought in a thousand modellers brains, there will be a few :-).

In real life, the closest I can come is when I lived in Chicago and took the L to work. As we went past Northwestern U., some of the nude coeds sunbathing on their balconies took great delight in flashing the trains

- as did we in watching them :-).

------------------------------------------------ That sure brings back memories.

Bill

I could put in a brothel overlooking the tracks....

Kennedy

It would put new meaning to rolling hills and lush valleys of the midwest.

Certainly, the Pennsey would NEVER have such a thing.....

Fleishmann (German import HO) used to have a stripper posing in their advt's in MR, often on the back cover. Not too racy, really, but STRANGE! Anything for attention, I guess.

Dan Mitchell ============

What is the connector connected to?

I have an LGB layout. 1) Can I convert this to

If you want to convert to battery power, is it already track powered?

or 2) can I convert it to track power? Thanks in

If you want to convert it to track power, is it already battery powered?

What is it you want to do?

Tom Tricep spake thus:

What everyone who responded to this posting seems to have missed is that what you have is actually a "Gandy dancer" car, not a "candy dancer".

A Gandy dancer was a poor slob on one end of a shovel on a railroad work crew, with the other end stuck underneath a tie, levering it up so ballast could be pushed under it to level the roadbed.

According to U. Utah Phillips, the "Golden Voice of the Southwest" (U.S.), a singer, songwriter and hobo, this term derives from the fact that the shovels used in this work were made by the Gandy Shovel Co. of Chicago. (This claim, however, is in dispute: see the Wikipedia entry at

Actually, "Candy Dancer" is the name of the train set. It has nothing to do with Gandy dancers.

I have no idea on how easy/hard it would be to convert to run from track power.

Wolf Kirchmeir spake thus:

Hmm. In that case, it might be the train manufacturer who misunderstood the name. (Or not.)

The train set is a "seasonal" item. None of the rolling stock is protoypical - all nicely gussied up with bright paint and glitter. It actually has a car for candies. Really.

Wolf Kirchmeir spake thus:

Kewl. Now, if the candy actually did, say, the tango, the csardas, or even the hoochie-coo, I might consider buying one!

Wolf Kirchmeir wrote in news:gk2df.1547$ snipped-for-privacy@news20.bellglobal.com:

Which makes it a rather horrid pun! I just love horrid puns.