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+4indyratpack ImGoodIfYouSuck Sr Slampiece o RED ARROW o 8 posters |
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o RED ARROW o
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|  Subject: My first controller  Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:38 pm | |
| Howdy guys/gals. Thought some of you might enjoy a couple pics of my first controller. It is over 50 years old and still works! I put it under the Christmas tree every year for the grand kids. Think about it, this thing was made 20 years before some of you were born!  [img]  [/img] | |
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Sr Slampiece
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:43 pm | |
| Awesome! I bet back then there's 120VAC running through those tracks LOL! | |
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ImGoodIfYouSuck
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:54 am | |
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indyratpack
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:06 am | |
| Did it come with a lag switch? | |
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Severed Digits
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Wed Jan 16, 2013 1:10 pm | |
| - indyratpack wrote:
- Did it come with a lag switch?
It IS a lag switch! | |
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Sr Slampiece
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:35 pm | |
| - Severed Digits wrote:
- indyratpack wrote:
- Did it come with a lag switch?
It IS a lag switch! You beat me to it! +1 | |
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BlackDeath
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:38 pm | |
| thats really cool red - i use to have a bunch of old train stuff like that - wish i woulda kept it now they just dont make em like that any more
i remember i had an engine and the entire body was steel that f'r probably weighed over 5lbs you could haul some cars with that! | |
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o RED ARROW o
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:31 pm | |
| @ BD:
This engine and coal car are plastic but obviously very rugged. All the other cars are steel. | |
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SwollenCamel
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:48 am | |
| Where do ya plug the mic into? | |
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gk daddio 65
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BlackDeath
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:52 am | |
| I had one of those! hahaha I'll never forget I was maybe 10 and I hooked that bad boy up for the first time not realizing the small gauge wire I used to attach it to the track. Full throttle and POOF insta-melted the wires I was like "Daaaaaaaaaaaaaad!!!" hahahahaha | |
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gk daddio 65
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:07 am | |
| Too funny. Hope his response wasn't "Jackass what did you do?"
I actually only set that train set up a couple times but I know it had some output to it. I almost think they took those things from the war department after they were done using them for torturing the enemy in WWII.
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o RED ARROW o
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:05 pm | |
| @gkd65
That is a beast and a lot more sophisticated than mine! Make sure you hang on to it, must be a collectors item by now. | |
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gk daddio 65
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| | Subject: Re: My first controller Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:14 pm | |
| Yeah, no plans to get rid of it. The trains an transfomrer have been sittin so long I will have to have them gone over before they r ever used again. | |
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