The opportunity to participate in an operating session on John Hanke’s Burlington Southern RWY brought me back to one of my favorite train watching spots in Indiana – Kimmell. As good as the location is, as challenging it gets with light and weather. This time I got pretty lucky with some nice shots of westbound in the evening as well as trains going the other way Sunday morning. Location This lookout post for trains is located on the old B&O line…
After having a lot of fun building the digital oscilloscope from a kit I decided to tackle a signal generator kit next . This makes a perfect match for the scope and will be useful checking circuitry. The design is centered around a “classic” ATMEGA16 μC paired with a common OpAmp to boost the signal and a two line LCD with some push buttons as user interface. Somehow this reminds me of a typical project for student at a technical college and the…
This is the first car weathering project using Pan Pastells. I’m quite happy with the outcome and look forward to more projects of this kind. The project started out with an Athearn model of a BethGon coal hopper that I picked up at my favorite train store in the Bay Area – The Train Store in Santa Clara. Interestingly, even as those cars are made out of aluminium prototype pics show some dust and grime that comes close to rust,…
Hanging out in Kimmell, IN [mappress mapid=”1″]
I got myself and a good friend oscilloscope kits and in a little bit more than an afternoon we got the pieces up and running!