Does anyone have any experience with Kato N scale passenger light kits? I've installed the kits on 3 passenger cars 3 different ways. 1 - filter with light bar installed; 2 - filter only; 3 - no filter and no light bar. They all look the same to me. They appear as white interior lights. The main issue is that the lights only illuminate half the car. Has anyone else had this issue? Just wondering if this is the way it's suppose to look.

Thanks-Tim

I purchased a Bachman Alco S4 Sound Value a few weeks ago. On the day it arrived, I gave it a thorough test, including  how many cars it could pull up the 1% grade near where it will work. It ran beautifully! I had no issues at all, even on all the switches that I ran it through. I thought to myself, "good thing I wasn't planning to add a CurrentKeeper in this because it doesn't need it!"

The current issue of MRH has an ad from Loksound stating that Full Throttle is available for steam now but the link from the magazine led me to a spot that only talked about diesel; am I missing something?

I am trying to put a decoder in an Athearn RTR S 3.   It is very tight and I am afraid that in trying to get the shell down over the engine I have caused a short somehow.  Here's what has happened.  I have installed 2 decoders -- one Digitrax and Tsunami.  After installing the decoder, when I put the engine on the track and apply power 2 things have happened.  With the digitrax there was a "ptz" sound that I associate with a short.  Digitrax confirmed I shorted their decoder.