I have been working in this Enginehouse for about three years! It even traveled to South Korea with me.

This week, the posse consisted of just Jim and myself; Julian being stuck down a hole somewhere, and Andrew being off chasing the ghost of the Northern Pacific. Between this and a previous session with Andrew, we have most of the ties laid. The trick to placing ties quickly and accurately is a tie jig, which my daughter helped me build a couple of months ago. It could hardly be simpler, but it saves a lot of faffing with glue and individual sticks of wood.

I'm thinking of adding DCC decoders to Atlas Roco loco's is that a good idea?  I know the motor stall amp draw is with in the limits of the decoder.  My thought is to use a NCE or TCS decoder.  I may go to a stay alive, but I haven't decided on that wrinkle yet. 

Kato did not put a DCC plug in Engine, they said it would add to much to price. Duu. They now say they are creating a set of instructions to hard weir in decoder. So what's wrong with this story. Another major manufacture did not do market research and put out incomplete engine not ready for prime time.

My solution is easy don't buy them, if enough of us do not buy them maybe they will get the message. 

For some benchwork is boring but I enjoy it - to a point.  There's nothing new or innovative in what I'm doing but I'll continue posting so you can follow along.

I was going to put Joe and the MRH booth up first but decided model trains are more important. This Modular Layout caught my eye. There were many at the show.  Lighting, Building Structures, Effective use of Mirrors, along with a great consistent appearance.

Seven people enjoyed last Monday's operating session on the Kanunda & Emu Flat Rwy

I've been trying to find a N scale defect detector or ways on how to model one. The problem is, I have no idea where to start and I don't want to buy an expensive defect simulator that is $$$. I also want something that isn't like the Dallas Model Works Defect Detector. Anyone have any suggestions or ideas?

I got this idea from djstrains on youtube.