I know some folks don't want to see any grafitti covered railcars at all but I felt like this one was too good to pass up. You might remember a few weeks ago I posted a picture a friend of mine took of a rather fantastic piece of art done on a box car.

With all the newer technology out there and the speed that it advances, where is the future of DCC really heading, especially in the smaller scales? I understand that most of the technology in our DCC Systems has long been “out of date” compared to the growth and speed of its advancement.

Ring Engineering has proven there can be advancements to the DCC systems and the ease of its inner workings (programing and customizing settings of each loco) so why can’t Digitrax, NCE and others do the same?

My proposed layout will share a corner of my basement shop.  I have room about 13 by 20 and plan to use about 8 feet at one end for the layout.  The layout will be attached to two maybe three walls. 

The rest of the shop will be used for woodworking.  The router, table saw and lathe create a considerable amount of dust.  I have a dust collector and a fine dust suspended air filter.  Still a fine layer of dust is everywhere. 

I am looking for some options to keep the layout "cleaner."  Some ideas I have had are:

Here's a (realy) short video clip I made. This is stop motion animation. About 100 frames = a bit over 3 seconds of video...

Hoarce sez he likes it. Kinda fun although it's a lot of work.

Charlie