Well, we've got the branchline track laid, and the central division yard is next.  Once the trackwork is operational, we'll be in a position to actually "operate".  To support that, I plan to build two moveable staging yards, HMS North and South, one for "north sub" and one for "south sub".  The north sub must contain four trains, while the south will need tracks for six.  With these modules installed, we'll be able to operate all the anticipated trains, and get a feel for operation of the division yard.  

I have an HO Bachmann 2-6-0 Sound Value DCC locomotive that is about 3 months old.  I use Digitrax Chief and JMRI to program and run my layout.  I successfully programmed this locomotive to address 377 adjusted the sounds and speed table to my liking, and ran the locomotive for about 2 months.  

At one club's last Ops Session I was really impressed by a long passenger train that actually had a lot of passengers, so now I am issuing a challenge to all serious modellers: Wouldn't it be great if every lead unit in a consist, every lone loco on the point, and every caboose on the tail had crew members? Let's get that idea rolling, starting with me! John Colley, Sonoma, CA

I'm in need of some help. I just updated my select direct alco 244 sound files to the new full throttle. The new sounds and the controls are amazing but I have one thing that's bugging me and I can't find an answer no matter how much I search. With my old setup, when I turned my dt402 throttle to step 1 the engine would throttle up to notch 1. Notch 2 would come in somewhere around step 11 and so on. Now with the full throttle settings the engine doesn't go to notch 1 until step 7 on the dt402. Notch 2 doesn't come in until step 14 or so.