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I mentioned earlier that converting to DCC the Tomix EF81 I recently acquired would be a massively painful undertaking. Stevenh has documented how he managed to install a decoder into his EF81, and the process just isn’t inviting. The problem is that his solution involves significant frame milling. The DE10 installation I recently completed [...] The Prototype When Japan began electrifying railways, they opted for DC, being basically the only option at the time. But as technology advanced, more recent electrification projects used AC. So, what this means is that railroads in and around Tokyo and Kyoto, being older, are DC; newly electrified lines in northern Honshu and [...] Happy birthday to me! This set was a gift from my wonderful wife. Actually, we kinda picked it out together, for reasons I won’t yet reveal. The box reads “J.R. Limited Express Sleeping Cars Series 24 Type 25 ‘Yumekukan’ with Electric Locomotive Type EF81″ (which is far more terse in the original Japanese: [...] |
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