Has anyone tried the new Arnold n scale locomotives?  I would be interested to hear your impressions.

Steve

I'm building a DCC Command Station that meets the NMRA standards. It's a compact system that includes a booster, 16x2 or 20x4 LCD, membrane keypad and a couple switches.

I making 2 models. One is based in the 16F88 microprocessor that allows control of 4 locomotives using a 16 button keypad.  Each row is speed up, speed down, direction and function 0 on/off. One of the locos can also be controlled by analog.

Update on the lighting from last month and a layout tour by rail. The mainline is built and trains will run.

I have a couple of the old Roundhouse Climax shells, and one (or perhaps two) are going to get mated to a Bachmann 44 tonner DCC Chassis.

The top pic is my starting materials…both got cheap at one point or other—total materials cost at this point, about $35 or so.  The lower one is progress so far.  (I know the pics aren't good--just a snapshot to show where I am.)

Thanks to my friend Doug H. I now have 15 sheets of 3mm cork to use as roadbed for my smelter yard and the future yard in The Pas.  I have been looking at options for the track layout and am thinking that we are getting close to having a final arrangement for the smelter.  A few shots below in a separate post.

 As if the $300 3D printer isn't enough, there's also this:

https://imgur.com/a/BvHFD

Discussion with builder:

http://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/38kv1e/in_my_high_school_engineering_class_we_were_given/

He builds model airplanes from balsa, which his 2W cutter can manage.

I see these purple flowers all along roadsides and the railroad right of way. I decided I need to have some to break up the colors of my Northern Minnesota railroad.

Thomas Gasior