The Home Machinist!

My heart and prayers goes out to the family. I am overwhelmed by Dave's passing. I knew him for many years and he was a mentor and a good friend. Yes he could be contentious and I enjoyed our 'back and forth' but we were always on the same page. Because of him, I am proud to carry on some of his pro...

Hi All! As a single individual trying my hardest to bring the A5a back to life plus working on other supporting items to resurrect, I have elected not to put my phone number on the website. I prefer to stay concentrated on tasks at hand without interruptions from phone calls. True, phone calls are g...

Reply sent Steve.

Email sent concerning the caboose lamps.

Best Steaming, Ed

Exciting News! Iron Horse Supply Corp has launched its website! It's a little new for the search engines to find, so here is the link https://www.ironhorsesupplycorp.com/ Please check it out! You will find parts for the Reading A5a Camelback 040 along with other offerings such as the Bettendorf Frei...

Here is my #462 at the Ridge Live Steamers track. E6 at Ridge 2022s.JPG The late Norman Gracy and I combined efforts for this build. And yes she needs a true set of drivers. Walt, I'll be calling. The engine number came from Norman telling people "I have a 460 - too!" Check her out leading...

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Update - Called RMI and Bill pointed out they they have a retrofit kit for the early electric loco's. It can be found on their website by drilling down some. Sent a follow up email and waiting on a quote.

Thanks Greg. As the relays and power voltage are on the loco, thinking of replacing the two position switch on the control box with a three position version (off-dim-on) using a spare wire, will need to verify that there is a an unused pin first. Run this to a relay and the PWM you mentioned to the ...

Good evening! Question for folks that have an RMI loco, is there a headlight dimmer that can retrofit into a controller Model 2020? The headlight is very bright and would be very gentlemanly to dim for oncoming traffic. Thanks for any input/ideas!

FYI - do a search for 'Blind Driver' in this Live Steam group and you will find many threads devoted to this subject with good answers. Example thread "blind driver Post by hoppercar » Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:41 pm" May want to do same search in the Riding Scale Railroading as well. Have been g...

Laughing! - My mentor, the late Norman Gracy, would comment why we were such good friends: It was because we lived 3 hours apart!