Yes, lower voltage does slow it down some, and it travels reasonably well, except that it tends to overheat when kept at a lower voltage too long. In doing so I burned the antique motor of one bus, and had to replace it. 
I do try to slow it down when I can get my hands
free, typically there are three to four trains, including the bus running simultaneously, and two trains are in danger of imminent collision if
I am distracted.
I do believe that is an SD9. I don't have an overabundance of natural talent, so I slopped some red paint over an existing shell, by brush, and did my best to tease on some decals. Not awful from a distance, but would not stand scrutiny. Runs suitably well.
Eric was asking about an overview of Armodilloville, so I cobbled this bit together this afternoon. The thing is constantly getting upgraded or changed about, so by next week it will probably have even more stuff, and some in different places. The airplane actually, flies, but will need a separate transformer wired into it, as the nine volt battery I attached sends it into hyperspeed and the battery drains out in about five minutes.
Again, the inspiration of the thing largely comes from TTTE. There is a connection to what you fellows, and gals, are doing supremely well.
Another one, done a week or two ago, a Covid spoof, I try to laugh at my problems, when possible, paired to the Alan Parsons Project.
The orange, center cabbed shunter, was an AHM 4 wheel job
painted for the Hooker Chemical Company out of Niagra Falls, NY.
I had it around for some years, and never quite thrilled with its
poor performance characteristics I sold it on eBay for a pittance
and replaced it with something else, that will show up here
eventually, I think.
Two other double cabbed locomotives are the MDC Box Cab switcher, after a 1900 dockside switcher, no longer in production, and a mystery electric locomotive, also painted for the Hooker Company.
I have no doubt that the authors of the Hooker Chemical paint scheme had great fun tormenting mothers and wives, everywhere.
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I do try to slow it down when I can get my hands free, typically there are three to four trains, including the bus running simultaneously, and two trains are in danger of imminent collision if
I am distracted.
I do believe that is an SD9. I don't have an overabundance of natural talent, so I slopped some red paint over an existing shell, by brush, and did my best to tease on some decals. Not awful from a distance, but would not stand scrutiny. Runs suitably well.
Eric was asking about an overview of Armodilloville, so I cobbled this bit together this afternoon. The thing is constantly getting upgraded or changed about, so by next week it will probably have even more stuff, and some in different places. The airplane actually, flies, but will need a separate transformer wired into it, as the nine volt battery I attached sends it into hyperspeed and the battery drains out in about five minutes.
Again, the inspiration of the thing largely comes from TTTE. There is a connection to what you fellows, and gals, are doing supremely well.
Another one, done a week or two ago, a Covid spoof, I try to laugh at my problems, when possible, paired to the Alan Parsons Project.
The orange, center cabbed shunter, was an AHM 4 wheel job
painted for the Hooker Chemical Company out of Niagra Falls, NY.
I had it around for some years, and never quite thrilled with its
poor performance characteristics I sold it on eBay for a pittance
and replaced it with something else, that will show up here
eventually, I think.
Two other double cabbed locomotives are the MDC Box Cab switcher, after a 1900 dockside switcher, no longer in production, and a mystery electric locomotive, also painted for the Hooker Company.
I have no doubt that the authors of the Hooker Chemical paint scheme had great fun tormenting mothers and wives, everywhere.
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