The last few days I have been asking a lot of questions and getting answers I don't always like but they are the hard truth from experience. I taught myself to stumble thru Xtrackcad so I can put my ideas in scale and it really changes the perspective of what will work and what won't. I am really enjoying the xtrackcad software but the learning curve is still steep. And looking for items in the para files is time consuming.

After one year absent from my local club due to real life issues I have returned and discovered (quite pleased) that my club have decided to go DCC. I have been using DCC for quite a while now, and nearly all of my locomotives have DCC and most have sound. But my club decided to use a digitrax radio system, while I use a NCE Power Cab. I have decided to bite the bullet and buy one throttle for club use and leave my power cab on my small shelf layout. Now for the big question: Which throttle do I choose? Since the club has a radio setup a radio throttle is nice, but not necessary.

I've been working on my fascia on my Richlawn Railroad and have reached a milestone of sorts in that my first section now has both the top and bottom bands and rivets.  You can see more about this process HERE. 

So, how many rivets are there?

I some what successfully made my first post with pictures, (My wife will not let me buy any more puzzles) thanks to those who read it. I have a question, does the picture insert platform automatically resize them, something popped up but was gone before I read it. The image I had loaded was in a little box which only showed part of the picture, so I kept making it smaller until I could see it all. Viewing it now the pictures are small. So I guess the programme resizes them to the right size, correct?