A new project from the days of steam headed right into the digital Era. 

This is the sixth version of the Georgetown & Allen Mountain Railroad. 

https://youtu.be/rQhDP2BAtlw

After a long time searching, I finally found two Walthers hot metal bottle kits at a hobby shop near my son's house. I would like to put an orange light into the cars to stimulate the molten steel. I was thinking of installing a battery and an on/off switch to operate the lights. Please let me know if any of you have any ideas or have successfully tried this on your own cars. Electronics is not my strong suit.

Also, I don't know the best way to simulate the accumulated crude that in found near the opening where the steel would be poured.

This update follows a long summer (and spring) of progress on the Cascade Sub. Given school closures and stay-at-home orders, the past months have been the most productive in the layout's brief history. Most notably, scenery is well underway on the lower level in Oakridge and Westfir, and the entire layout is operational with the recent completion of Klamath Falls Staging. 

I have contacted the Digitrak Help Desk and followed all their instructions. Attached is a photo drawing of the problem I am having. Installed correctly, and with a test light showing correct power to both the mainline coming from the right and correct power on the "loop" (read spur), the test engine stops crossing the double cut shown on the right.

In this episode we are building Berkshire Valley Models new kit, the Small Ore Bin - Truck Ramp. This video is to complement the well organized instructions, and would make a great craftsman kit for a novice.

I received a neat toy from NixTrainz. It is their Decoder Buddy Light Test Board. It goes on the Decoder Buddy V5 and it has built-in LED's. The LED's will duplicate your programming. This will allow you to check your lighting functions before putting the shell back on. 

After a lot of editing, I decided that part 3 was just too long.  I had over 3000 words written about a half-dozen different models, then I realized that a couple of the printers I was considering had almost identical specs and were basically clones.  A third was simply too small.  So I completely re-wrote the post and cut out everything that I felt was excessive.  Now at about 1600 words, I think the post is short enough that I can copy/paste to here without having a massive wall of text.  What follows is the main body of my post with some minor cutting of unneeded