It is summer up here in the north. Too nice out to do any modeling but during a couple of days of rain I finished the 30 yard western. At least for now as I want to rust it up a bit.

I put the Walthers Diffco in the back for comparison.

I have finally been able to break away and start a new office layout.  Well... more of a display now.  But, maybe you all can help?  I want to do some rock wall work and things to make it look interesting, but have no idea if there are any prototype examples of track-work that is separated by multiple levels of retaining walls?

See my blog post here: http://www.digitaltrainlab.com/

Am new to DCC, and need some help. It has been a frustrating couple of nights.

I have a NCE ProCab and a three foot piece of flex track that I am using for my programming track. I am using DecoderPro3 with the NCE USB interface

I have three loco's, and all have problems that I can not figure out.

1) Bachmann 70T with Bachmann DCC installed.  Works fine, except that the headlights only come on when the headlight button is pushed on the ProCab. They do not come on based on direction. I have it set up as the Bachman 4 function decoder (36-550).

Today is the day!  The Great Gathering takes place in the UK National Railway Museum at York. http://www.nrm.org.uk/PlanaVisit/Events/mallard75.aspx

On 3rd July 1938 at a place called Stoke Bank on the East Coast Main Line, the A4 Pacific Mallard, broke the record for a steam engine achieving a speed of 125.88 mph, a record held by the locomotive today.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard