I recently read on one of the post that the old way to bond rail to wooden ties was with Pliobond. As I have just finished building 6 turnout using Fast Track jig, I was planning on using Pliobond.  Is there a better product?

thanks...Ken

What is the most simply manner to wire up Diamond Scale turntable for DCC train operations. The turntable itself will NOT be indexing, nor powered in its turning,...just simple manual rotation?

I suppose one power lead still needs to come in thru the tower on the bridge, while the other comes thru the circular track in the pit? And I assume this circular track does NOT have to be segmented as there are dual contact wheels at both ends of the bridge?

I am planning to put a NCE D13W decoder in an old PFM light mike that has a grain of wheat bulb as a headlight.The info with the decoder indicates that the max for the light outputs is 100ma and that the GOW bulb have an in-rush current of 8 times that value.  The bulb draws 80ma when lighted.  Would a 22 or 33 ohm 1/2 watt resistor in series with the bulb limit the in-rush current as thus save the decoder?  I prefer LEDs for lights,but it would not be an easy task to put in a LED in this engine for the headlight.

  Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good crossing gate system or source of  plans to build one that could be used on my S scale layout. It likely would be designed for HO scale and need to be modified for S scale but perhaps an O scale version could be reduced in size? I'd like flashers/bell and operating gates and some kind of detection circuit to operate them ( I have DCC control on the rails) .