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Yeah, I should get the new one. I have the old one.
I spent so much time in Stevens Pass in the '70s. I have a large collection of slides and negatives from that era.
I need to sort, scan, and make available. Alan Sewell is suggesting I write a book.
Sure. And I can devote the second Tuesday of every week to that project. 
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That is the part I can't understand. The SD-7 waddles pretty significantly. Its wheels check out. All the freight cars' wheels meet the RP25 specs and are in gauge.
I still have a couple of my hand built turnouts in place. I should run some of this equipment through them and see what happens.
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My faith in the commercial turnouts is somewhat restored.
I have a box car that was occasionally picking points and frogs. Not quite to the point of derailment, but still annoying. Last night it derailed after picking the points on a turnout.
I checked the plastic wheels against the NMRA gauge, and they looked OK. But I was kind of disgusted with it so decided to change out the wheels. I have some Kadee 33" wheels lying around from an On30 "hunkering" project. So I did a complete tune-up on that car, including changing out the wheels.
Wow! What a difference. It really improved the performance of that car.
I was inspired, so pulled a car that was the prize rock and roller on the layout and tuned it up. Amazing. The prime contributor to the rockin' and rollin' was loose trucks. The previous owner seemed to think that really wobbly trucks had some kind of performance advantage. It appears that quite a few cars have wobbly trucks.
He was incorrect.
Changing out the wheels and adjusting the trucks properly really improved the behavior of that car.
A piece of advice. If you have cars with plastic wheels, get some metal wheels (the Kadees are great) and ditch the plastic wheels. It will really make a big difference.
Now, of course, I have to do all the rest of the cars. At the moment I am out of wheels, but I have more coming. It is obvious that changing out the wheels on all the freight cars I have is going to improve Kadee's bottom line.
All the cars are going to need some attention to their couplers. Some will need new couplers. That will not be of benefit to Kadee. For some reason lost in the depths of time, I have a very large collection of HO Kadee couplers squirreled away. I can't remember why. Until this most recent venture I haven't modeled in HO for over 30 years.
On this section of the layout I have one more performance problem I need to solve. The SD-7 stalls on one frog. The GP-35 (I have only two locos converted to DCC, out of the 23 I own) does not even hesitate on that frog. Nor does the SD-7 hesitate on any of the other frogs, let alone stall. As I am using the over-center springs as my "switch machines" all of the turnouts have dead frogs.
As a side note...the over center springs are working out great.
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Bass man for J5OM and Diamonds in the Rough!
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Maybe the cars were just keeping' time? 
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I have built a new building for this west end (photos to follow) and have started painting rail.
I still don't have a paint I really like. The Floquil turned out to be just a bit thin. The nickel silver shined through.
I bought some "flat" enamel. It isn't really all that flat.
I think for the rest of the layout I will spray paint the flex track and just hand paint the turnouts.
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Hi Reg 
If you want the 'flattest' paint there is IMO ...
... Look no further than Matt 'Humbrol' Enamel.
It also has the densest pigment I've ever seen as well.
Can't be beat.
An excellent colour for rust is their shade named 'Leather'.
They also do a shade called 'Rust' of course, as well as many many others.
It's worth trying to get hold of a FREE 'Humbrol' colour-chart.
They aren't of course that accurate needless to say.
But for really serious users, they sell a PRO colour-chart, mixing guide kinda thing.
Si.
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