Like two days ago I was making a few changes on my layout, very carefully taking apart my EZ track, without too much pulling and pushing, the Nickel Silver rails just came off the roadbed. Out of like 50-60 sections, it happened to 27 ! yes, twenty seven pieces ! The track is like new ! Is this normal ? I'm shocked ! I don't know what to do. Can I glue the rails again to the roadbed, will it have an impact on conductivity ? What kind of glue should I use, or what should I do in general ? Please help me out with this ? Now I fear to even touch the EZ track.

After 8 full hours of coping with the infamous Nicaraguan red tape, long lines, 17 !!! signatures required, multiple fees paid in different government institutions scattered all over the capital, at 4:31 p.m. I received my package for an extra $ 100, not too bad, compared to the $ 500 asked as import duties. Now I'm not sure if RIP is for me or Trainworldonline unauthorized missending stuff via overnight DHL, as I get whatever HO scale package for less than $ 1 by snail UPS International clearing through the same Customs Office. Imagine what I could get for those hundred bucks at Bachmann ?

Quote from: Ed Kunkel on July 28, 2011, 09:54:55 PM
wiz - Register for e-mail sales.  You may be in time for their Christmas in July sale.  After you signup all you need to do when calling in is give the password "Christmas"  (if my memory is correct) and the added discount will be in effect.
Good luck.
Ed

Bang, I made the purchase for a grand, including some cabooses, a crane, two derrick cars, a BN rotary snowplow with a tender and Napa Valley stuff. 10 new locos will have me going nuts, and imagine how I am in general, lol. Thanks for the 10 % early Christmas advice.

Quote from: Ed Kunkel on July 27, 2011, 10:29:50 PM
Check out "www.trainworldonline.com".  Their prices and services are hard to beat.

wow, they have everything, the prices are ok, hopefully they ship to where I am, this is what I've been looking for, gotta contact them, thanks a lot

I've bought a lot of stuff from The Favorite Spot before they closed their Ebay store, Ray is a great guy, but he didn't carry the locos I want this time. Once the shipping to Nicaragua was $ 175, two huge packages, last time, I'm still waiting for even bigger packages, I guess already at the Nicaraguan Customs Office, it takes a long time to inspect it, it was $ 244. Well, yeah, it's pretty expensive even for the dubbed Czech Hollywood Warrior Priest from Serious Entertainment going "trains" as hell. Any other ideas ? Thanks so far.

Here they are: BAC64204, BAC60902, BAC60901, BAC60905, BAC62803, BAC60348, BAC60441, BAC83504, BAC61108, BAC60116

I would love to buy them directly from Bachmann, but look at their official out of this world prices, the double of what you get anywhere else, like at www.wholesaletrains.com, etc. I wanted to buy them on ebay, but no seller has them all, maybe just one, two items at most. The problem is that Wholesaletrains, the lowest prices online, don't ship to Nicaragua, Central America, where I reside, I called them, no matter I use PayPal.

Is there any way I can buy these engines as a bulk directly from Bachmann for great prices, including the shipping to Nicaragua ? How much would the lowest possible total be ? 10 locos is 10 locos ! I just need these trains, Mr Bachmann. I pay by PayPal.

Wires ? Oh my, I cannot solder, or anything, I'm a philosopher, a writer, so I cannot buy it like that, DCC ready. Thanks for putting me off, the seller just lies, and I almost bought it. This forum's advice is very valuable.

So it's got an 8-pin plug, the shell easy to remove, to put in a Bachmann plug and play decoder, for example ? Can a non-expert like me handle installing it ? 

Hi, I'm about to buy this model.

http://www.ioffer.com/buy/ho-spectrum-ballast-regulator-w-dcc-maintenance-vehicle-206526212-czechwizard-10222970

It's advertized that it's DCC, decoder equipped right from the factory, but the official Bachmann website says only the following, not DCC !

" We're pleased to offer three self-propelled Maintenance of Way vehicles. A perfect addition to any post-steam railroad, the vehicles are available in standard safety yellow and are easily customizable.

Features include:

• self-propelled
• precision skew-wound motor
• finescale interior detail
• die-cast gravel load (per prototype)
• RP25 wheels
• E-Z Mate® Mark II couplers

Price: $85.00

Product Code: 16947 "

So is it DCC factory-equipped or not ? Anybody has it ? Self-propelled, what ? I would appreciate any feedback, thank you.

Quote from: Doneldon on July 15, 2011, 11:58:34 PM
cz wiz-

You can do the same thing. However, if you think I'm gonna
try to draw it you've got another think coming!
                                                                       -- D

Yeah, you see, it's a real pain in the neck, using 30, 45, 60 degree crossing, I've spent entire days trying to draw something "working", but it won't fit no matter I have a lot of connectors of all kinds, please play with me, hell, I don't want this to be a lose-lose situation.

Quote from: Doneldon on July 15, 2011, 09:34:50 PM
cz wiz-

It would look like a tic tac toe game.             |    |                   Each line represents both rails of a section of track. Basically, you'll
                                                           ____|__|___             have four 90^o crossings connected in a giant crossing.
                                                                  |    |
                                                           ____|__|___
                                                                  |    |
                                                                  |    |
                                                           
I wonder what this'll LL when I send it in!

                                  -- D

nice, very nice, lol, yet 90 degree crossings are a piece of cake, how about 30, 45, 60 other than some figure 8 ?

Quote from: jward on July 15, 2011, 09:20:34 PM
usually #6 switches are about 10 degrees give or take. to make a scissors type double crossover you'd need a 20 degree crossing.

you could add a level crossing of your two track mainline with another 2 track line, that would use 4 crossings.

Could you please draw it for me, sir, something simple, basic ?

Hi, I'm relatively new to HO scale railroading, I had a decent layout when I was 17 back in the Czech Republic, 20 years ago, where I bought all the good Piko stuff for literally peanuts, from fella communist Eastern Germany. Nowadays their capitalist stuff, the same thing plus DCC, costs a lot of Euros, and since I ended up in the tropics of impoverished Nicaragua, Central America, I can proudly afford the cheapest Bachmann stuff. I've bought just about everything from The Favorite Spot on Ebay, and other US outlets. I'm planning to do a huge HO scale layout in one third of my living room, already got 5 tables of plywood, only to set it up, lol, all the train equipment still unpacked, I'll have 4 mainlines, 26, 28, 33, and 35 degree radius curves, a helix to connect the 2 mainline upper level.

I've bought like 12 pieces of 30 degree crossing, first I thought I could fit it with my #6 turnouts, but it seems I was wrong, then like 4 pieces of 45 and 60 degree crossing. I don't have a problem with 90 degree crossings.

I've been trying to get some ideas on 30, 45, and 60 degree crossings with # 6 turnouts and crossovers, something complicated, sophisticated, but I hardly can. I think I have enough room, but I definitely lack ideas. I've tried Anyrail, but I'm not good at it, and patience is an issue, etc.

So, guys, please, do you have any ideas regarding 30, 45, 60 degree EZ track crossings ? Thank you for trying to bear with me !