After trashing my Raspberry Pi by attempting to upgrade to "Buster", I had to start over from scratch with a new system load. Since I lost my JMRI loco info, I had to re-read all my decoders to reestablish the roster. I have 13 engines with self added decoders and all but one was easily re-read and the roster recreated.

I discovered a British track template making program for curved turnouts named Templot.

templot.com

it is absolutely amazing but extremely hard to get started due to the lack of beginners instructions.

After a few days of trial and error and joining the forum and watching videos I learned enough to manually create a curved version of my Anyrail plan 

you can make a long curved track and then drop a turnout into it that maintains the same curve

Hi Guys and ladies

I need some help with the wiring of a booster cable for a Roco z21. I need to know if the two RJ connectors are wired as a cross over, or how the wiring goes from the left to the right RJ connector. I only need about a 12 inch cable and most of the ones for sale are 6 feet or longer. 

Thanks 

Henry van Wyk 

Gang, 

I got a bunch of loose JST connectors off of eBay. The pins are too close together to fit on a standard breadboard or whatever you call the circuit board I use to mount resistors for lighting. Where can I find stock boards that will allow mounting of JST connectors?

Basically, I want to make my own wire connection boards similar to those found inside a Bachmann steam loco. See the second picture.