Anyone else tried this idea? I liked what was printed in the recent magazine but the electrical diagram left a lot to be desired. Especially when looking at the photo of the test track wiring. A good picture of the underside of this circuit would have been worth the price of that issue alone. I would like to build a few of these, but am a little confused by the wiring schematic as it concerns the Kadee electromagnet uncoupler.

Thanks,

Thomas G

I'm trying to program decoders using JMRI and Sprog II and have done successfully in the past 5 days.  Turned computer back on with nothing else changed and I keep getting an error 306 - timeout talking to the command station.  I put back locomotives successfully programmed last week and continue to get the same error on the programming track.  I've tried connecting directly to the wires coming out of Sprog II with not success.  Port assignment has not changed and the computer does identify Sprog II as using that port.  I tried restarting the computer and

For the longest time that I can remember, a 2" spacing between tracks, even on curves, was a typical "standard" spacing between two tracks that are side by side.  But as I just happen to look at the NMRA Track standards (both S-7 and S-8) as updated in 2008 for the "Classic" gauge (which is appropriate for modeling 1953 equipment)  the spacing should be 2 1/16"?  For several reasons I would like to keep the spacing 2" (especially for the curves since I like to make the templates using rounded numbers (i.e.

I've read the article about using the CVT turnout kits as a poor man's assembly jig.  I already have the FastTrack filing jigs so filing point rails, frogs etc wont be a problem.  I need to build a true curved turnout, i.e.