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The postings containing the malware were written in MicroSoft Word, copied, then pasted into the body of the blog.  I have followed the same procedure here.

Rick

Installing the new spray booth today, this area is external to the layout area, it’s right near the main roller door entrance so will have good ventilation.  The base board in the booth is just 8mm MDF board, the table is also height adjustable.

Please check out my new clinic on a super easy way to paint wheels on freight and passenger cars. 

This is the start of a “How-to” series on building super detailed turnouts from mainly CVT tie strips and Proto87 Stores parts. You can use some of these techniques or all of them, if you wish, to make some highly detailed and functional turnouts. In this series, we will build a turnout panel from start to finish. 

This article describes a small, simple interface to convert DCC signals allowing a wide variety of Arduinos, PICS, Raspberry Pi’s or other processors, to utilize a native DCC signal straight from your layout bus. With this you can build DCC decoders with the likes of an Arduino Mega2650 which has 67 input/output pins available for decoder use, or try using a Teensy 4.0 with 600MHz clock speeds.

This building front is illuminated with 2 LED's removed from a 3-LED strip.   It's  the "machine shop" from River Leaf Models .

The light from the "warm white" 12 volt 3-LED strips looks incandescent, and the strips can also be run on a 9 volt battery, looking quite bright. 

I did it, I'm taking the plunge and finally starting my first layout! (Well technically I bought the lumber this past week, but who's counting lol)

I will be chronicling my progress here, as much for my own ability to look back and see what I could improve on or to repeat something that I did as anything else.

It will be a simple 8'×18" switching layout built as two 4' modules. I chose this design because I live in an apartment and I know that I will be moving at least once. This way they will be easily movable when the time comes.