I just purchased a NCE 5240002 PH-Pro-R (Power Pro-R) Wireless DCC Starter System. I am most excited. I want to buy an Alco RS3 with DCC control and sound. What manufacture and supplier would you recommend.

Thanks so much for your help...

Lets pick up where I left off last spring.  While I mull changes to the Athearn frame, let's start cutting the shell and adding improvements. A mix of old and new photo etchings and details will vastly impove the old tooling.   

I'm thinking about a new piece of equipment, but I only have space (and money) for one.

I'd like a 3D printer and I'd like a laser cutter, but don't know which to get, soooo....

If you could only have either/or a 3D printer or a cutter, which would you buy, and with what rationalle for the decision?  And if you already have one, what would you recommend?

Norman

Okay, a couple of weekends ago, Bruce Barney and Rod Loder held the first Bridgetown RPM meet at Taborspace in Portland, OR. 

Joe Fugate and I went, to see the models, to show off MRH/TMTV, and to demonstrate the Proto-throttle. The Proto-throttle almost didn't get shown off, as Joe's original version NCE PowerPro system wouldn't run the Proto-throttle. Fortunately, Joe Brugger had an updated PowerPro that would, and lived somewhere nearby.  

I had a camera along of course. 

Sorry to soil the day of any strictly realistic modelers, who might feel this doesn’t belong here, but I just finished work on a fun project, and I thought this might be a fun place to share it.

I am starting my new TOMA style layout and need your help. I want this layout to be very operational. I know nothing about operational needs! I have never seen an operating session on another's layout. The first modual is 30" X 84". #6 turnouts will be used along with code 83 track. 

I have been watching TrainMasters, searching this forum and reading back issues of MRH. However, I still feel like I really do not know what I am doing as far as track planning. 

Please be very critical as to the plan's ability to be operational.

Hi! I made a short video tutorial to introduce Static Grass for beginners. Cost effective application and a few recipies with final result photos. I hope it can be of use.

This blog will document my ongoing efforts to update the electronics in my 2.5" scale locomotive.

Or should I say "Boxcab Oil-Electric" (as folks didn't want to say "diesel" after WWI, for silly reasons)

I finbally got one... just ordered it today. I've been keeping quiet about it, because it's been in my watch list for over a week on eBay... I handed a flatmate some money to put into my PayPal, and he sent an e-check, which took a freekning WEEK to clear, but it clared this afternoon, and I managed to get it just as someone else put it in their watch list.

So anyway... here's the beauty right here: