Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
My channel is not monetized--I don't currently meet the watch time requirement to qualify for the YT Partner Program. So any pre-roll ads you see on my videos, feel free to skip them.
Having said that:
Yeah, it's been a year or more since I last posted a video. I got a comment asking if I was ok being that I hadn't posted in over a year, and before responding, I realized that more subscribers are probably wondering the same thing. And by "more" I assume one or two, a half-dozen tops :D .
Well, welcome to my second Community post, and maybe the photo will post with it this time.
As you can see by the photo, the room housing my test track is in a bit of disarray. Most of that is due to swapping out a lot of new and not-so-new locomotives after I discovered my DCS system was not recognizing *any* locomotive other than the NS diesel seen in the last test-track video I posted. This bummed me out for a good long while, but as it so often happens after a long time of randomly thinking about the problem, it occurred to me this issue could be related to the switch box I set up between the TIU output and the track. I hope to test this by bypassing the switchbox. If I'm successful in adding/ accessing other locomotives, I'll be able to start running trains again. The clutter I can't do much about--the rest of the house is hardly better, and I still have pre-orders coming. (hint: I'll be able to re-create Amtrak's Crescent ... with *Viewliners* ). Beyond that, I've been trying to inventory my collection, as evidenced by the old netbook sitting in front of the TV. This time I'm putting in as much info as I can scrape together for each record (including photographing each piece), so for a collection of more than 800-ish pieces, its taking long enough to experience occasional lapses in productivity. The clutter and tight confines tend not to help matters, as I've found.
I can't promise weekly uploads like I did way back before HD was a thing, for one thing as of mid April-2021, I'm stuck working Tuesday-Saturday now, on an 11am-7pm shift I've also been stuck on for the past four years, that leaves me no ability to do any of the weekday after-hours things that used to leave me maximum unstructured time on the weekends. On top of that my occupation made me one of the "essential workers", so I experienced no lockdown time *whatsoever* during the worst of the pandemic.
Believe it or not, these model trains are not my only hobby. I also draw stuff (hence my art-tips playlist). Not anywhere near the level of many (most) art YouTubers, but I do have about 810 pictures under this username on a website that is not DeviantArt. Said art site's initials do however rhyme with "DA", so If you find said un-named art-site with my username next to an avatar consisting of an endless train of Canada hoppers, you've found it. To that end among other things, I've been working on a comic that I "need" to update to the present in order to introduce some new characters I designed 2-3 years ago. Said comic is being reactivated after an *11-year* hiatus, so I'm devoting time to artwork whenever it's not practical to play with choo-choos. I've managed to draw, ink/color and letter 10 pages so far, with an unspecified number to go before the new characters are introduced. And by the above paragraph, you should be able to guess that I don't get a whole lot of time to do that either.
Addendum: Found the DCS problem--leads to the track were backwards. I didn't notice this before because the NS diesel that was on-track was a Protosound 3 unit with 3-rail/2-rail capability that isn't polarity-sensitive in regular operation (you do need it correct to add a PS3 loco, however)
Questions? have at them below.
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Unboxing a Kusan caboose...the hard way
The fit was tight, the original 1950's vintage box was fragile, so I decided the only way was:
mount the box on a flatcar with Fun-Tak, build a ramp with a couple of used chopsticks and some roound toothpicks, push an idler freight car up the ramp, hitch onto the caboose and drag it out of the box onto the test track yard.
Easier said than done. I'd post a photo, but YouTube ignores every attempt I make to insert the photo in this post.
(it's a 800x450, 128kb jpg)
Ah well, it'll be in the next video...
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Mostly videos of trains, Mostly my own, sometimes somebody else's.
Sometimes at home, sometimes elsewhere.