Dear MRHers,

Questions:
- Anyone have had to ship a damaged/DOA Loksound decoder back to Germany for Warranty Repair?

- Anyone had Deutsche Post/Deutsche Customs/ESU collectively fail to deliver/receive/accept said warranty-repair decoder? (thankfully it has made it back home, so at least I know where the damaged unit is)

As far as I can tell, DE Customs held a correctly-addressed, insured, and Intl-Tracking-Enabled parcel labelled "Warranty Repair - No Commercial Value",
(IE no duties or tax to pay AFAIK),

Just recently bout a used Spectrum steam DCC loco, however the chuffing speed does not match the loco actual speed...throttle at 28 sound matches, but actual speed is slower...I use NCE and have never programed sounds speed etc..Any assist or advice always appreciated.  

I've read several posts about the problems with brass track, and I agree with all the comments. I am in the process of replacing all my brass turnouts, straight, curved and flex track.

Several posts suggested that it would be OK to use brass track in spurs/industrial dead ends where an engine would most likely not be touching the brass track. That sounds good, but my question is, would those brass track dead-end sections cause a degradation in the overall electrical current in the Nickle-Silver sections leading up to the brass track?

Thanks......

I have gotten myself an older Proto 2000 GP18 low nose locomotive. I say older as the inner frame is a lot taller with any real type of pc board and or 8 pin type plug. I am a super noob novice for any kind of DCC install but I wanted to go with DCC and Sound for this locomotive. I have searched and my google-fu is lacking because I cannot find many sources for a full dcc and sound install on what I call the "older" weight/frame. Can anyone direct me to a source or instruct me on what or how to approach this install project.