I also bought one #831 set of couplers. These are large off-set couplers for truck mounting. I put them on my SRRL caboose. You can see that I aquired a few older Kadees from eBay purchases in the below photo. The original owner had painted the couplers to look rusty. They also cut the trip pins. I've done my best to refurbish the internal workings of these units, but not all of them have worked well. I may have to just replace them.
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Tonight I decided to try and run my Forney DC power on the first complete loop of track on the LHRR. It worked for the most part - though there are some sections of track I need to scrub to improve electrical connection. I will be running battery power, but it'd be nice to be able to incorporate DC power for a visiting hobbyist (or a young cousin who is gifted a very simple Bachmann engine...). There's not much to report other than that. I still have to finish the ballast, so that'll be happening next week.
Check out these photos I took of my trains on the first ever run! One of the first projects I started after I decided I was going to build a garden railroad was building a few styrene skids for my box car. They are quite simple and I think they look very nice. All my styrene came from Evergreen Scale Models. I have to paint them still; which should reveal the wood grain that I etched into each piece before gluing them together. You can't see it in these photos because this was the first one I built, but I ran each styrene 'board' over sand paper before gluing together.
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