Model animation—bringing models to life—adds enormously to the interest and enjoyment of any layout or individual model! This entry includes a video presenting ideas for animation sequencing, project updates, and a new DCC controlled, passenger coach animation. There's also a challenge for you to guess where my next project runs!

Ready!

My  Decker reefer have got a new life - rebuilt and backdated by a new wood frame and correct details.

Permission given by Jörg Hensel.

Description about rebuilding precess will follow in next posts.

Keith Hayes provides details and photographs of his Sn3 layout on the C&Sn3 blog:

http://coloradosouthern.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

Darel

I have the following two silent engines. I am planning to convert to DCC and would like to know if anyone has suggestions for sound in the following.

1) NYC T-3

2) LIRR BB-3 box cab electrics

I have heard the generic sounds for these via three rail examples. Not being too impressed might there be better more appropriate sounds?
I have two rail O scale versions.
Thank you for any help or leads,
Sincerely, Transfer.

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Welcome to the West View & Santa Fe N scale model railroad blog. The intent of this blog is to share my experiences building a small N scale layout from start to finish.

Hi guys,

It has been a long time since I was able to work on my layout!  The birth of my daughter and taking care of my 2 year old son took the best part of my time.  There was also an issue with some trackage that I didn't fix properly after the move last March that was haunting me and I thought it would be a huge thing fixing it all...  Well, guess what, it took the best part of 30 minutes, and most of that time was waiting on the soldering iron to heat up!

I have now completed the wiring of Staging Yard "A" (10 tracks) on the near side of the peninsula.  It took about 35 hours over two weeks to complete the wiring job.  All 10 tracks can be turned on or off via the SPDT switches located in the recessed openings in the fascia and each track has an LED power-on indicator. The switches were recycled from my previous DC layout.

Now has a PM42...This may not be exiting to the majority of layout owners out there, however, I was so excited when I fired it up and everything worked,  I felt I had to tell someone.

All wiring around the module is 18 G wire.  The layout bus is 14 G and can be seen leaving "Sec1" of the lower terminal block. 

TW.

This may be nothing new but may be of benefit to beginning  modelers.