I have moved and I haven’t built a new layout yet but I am still collecting Chessie gear when I can. My newest engine is a Bachmann GP7 Chessie 5606. This engine like my last 2 is also DCC and the detail is fairly exceptional giving that it is a low end brand. Over the […]
Today I purchased the second of 3 planned locomotives to run on my layout. The first being last April when I bought my DCC system was a Chessie GP40. As you may have noticed if you have for some bizarre reason been reading my blog I like the Chessie System. Chessie however is not my […]
I just wanted to take a moment to thank Laura from Bachmann trains for her courteous and prompt assistance on getting me a replacement DCC controller after mine had failed after only a month. I was a bit concerned that they weren’t going to accept my paypal receipt at first but they did without question […]
If you have been following my model railroad blogs then by now you should have noticed a recurring cast member in most of my photos and it isn’t your average house cat. I would say probably most people my age have no idea what the Chessie System was but seeing I spent every weekend as […]
The newest edition to my model railroad is this DCC equipped EMD GP40. This diesel came with my new Bachmann EZ command DCC system which allows me to independently operate up to 10 locomotives at one time. The way DCC is different than standard Analog power is that the maximum power output is always running […]