I have a Athearn genesis with a decoder, The power trucks have been nothing but trouble, I would like you install a older set of athearns power trucks, So my question is can I solder the feeder wire's to each side of the trucks and would I have to insulate the power truck from the frame? 

Thanks Chet

Hi there,

I am starting to wire up my control panel.  I have 9 Atlas Snap switches that I would like to wire to toggle switches on my control panel rather than use the Atlas switch controllers.  Is there a simple way to wire in a switch position indicator light?   Any wiring diagrams would be welcome.

Thanks

Denis

Here’s my idea:

Place IR-LEDs in the layout’s lighting valence – driven, perhaps,
by a picaxe at 38kHz (the freq. used by tv remotes). This will
flood the layout with IR – but should be easy to differentiate
from background light since it’s not only IR but at 38kHz pulses.

So I downloaded JMRI and I have the computer interface cable. I am able to operate my locomotive through JMRI(I don't need to do that though), but I am unable to program on the main. I do not have a programming track. I could build a program track pretty easy, but is there any way to get this thing to program on the main? I keep getting error 306 when I try to write CV's and I can not read CV's at all. When I dont get error 306 using the 'write' tab, JMRI says 'ok', but nothing happens. Again, using MRC prodigy express as my DCC system.