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New Members From The Boy Scouts Of America -The Next Generation of Model Railroaders
Today I met with A scout Master that is taking 50 members of his BSA Troup on a weekend Rail Fan Trip with 9 other Fathers. They as a group are starting a Model Railroad Boy Scout Club and are building a model Railroad in the Church Basement or a Large Basement of some kind.
Tonight they are having a meeting and because they are all new to the hobby or most any way, I gave them all the information needed to join in with US here at the MRH Forums and incouraged them to Down load all the Issues of The MRH magazine.
Small Scale Live Steam
First of all, my primary scale is On30, these days it is usually for the Christmas tree layout (4' by 4').
For the last couple of years, I have been interested in small scale live steam, 1:19 scale, just a tad larger than G scale. The scale/gauge is SM32, pretty common over in the United Kingdom, and I use O gauge 3-rail track (less the center rail) as my railroad. Go over to www.mamodforums.co.uk, and check it out.
Hello from Germany!
Hi, I'm Stefan from nearby Cologne, Germany. I'm building a layout in U shape, N scale. Until now the ground layer is almost finished (only the tracks) and below it is an 11 tracks fiddle yard for 25 trains.
I'm running my trains with DCC using a Tams MC as central station. It's connected to my computer where I use Windigipet to control my trains. I plan to run the main line automatically and to run the branch line myself.
Question
I had posted a discusion about lighting with pictures. When I first posted them they were in a list of jpegs. I now noticed they are part of the post. How did that happen and how could I do that in the first place? Thanks
Peter
Getting access to sound files higher than F12 in DCC
I have an N scale Athearn Challenger with some nice sounds using the supplied remote control using standard DC power. The list of other sounds using DCC is amazing! I wanted to get started with a system that could handle sound files above F12. I'm not sure if I need to get a deluxe DCC system by Digitrax, for example, or I'd be OK with just a starter set.
Could someone recommend a DCC set for a newbie?
Easy Model Railroad Inventory - Potential Addition #3
There has been a request to add wish lists for: rolling stock, locomotives and structures. More than likely it would be three different files.
What do you think? Vote Yes or No to help plan the future development of Easy Model Railroad Inventory.
Easy Model Railroad Inventory - Potential Addition #2
There has been a request that two additional fields be added to Easy Model Railroad Inventory. Both are date fields:
Last service date – last date locomotive/car was inspected maintained – ie checked couplers, wheels, bolster, looked for broken/missing parts, oiled, lubed, etc. – details of service in existing note box
WE'RE BACK! MRH website is now on the new servers.
The MRH web site moved to new servers on Saturday, April 9th at noon, Pacific time.
Welcome to our new super-charged servers! Please let us know if you find any problems with the site.
You will be able to tell you are on the new servers when the site changes to our new look:
Disabled / Handicapped Model railroaders
For any disabled / Handicapped model railroaders we have started a forum for those of us afflicted at Trainboards.com, the community is "The Challengers" . If you have any questions please feel free to contact me @ stels5nc@gmail.com. All are invited no matter what restrictions you have or even if you have none and would like to possibly help with questions we may have as to how to overcome our challenges.
Scott Sptingstead
Can't find follow up to 4th QTR Parallel Lines?
Was reading - with interest - Tim's article on turnout wiring, etc. The 4th quarter 2009 was the last article I see. Has this been continued somewhere and I missed it?
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