After watching Joe explain decoder pro I went and purchased the system.Most of my loco's worked fine, but a few of my loco' with QSI Quantum system analog & dcc Q1a sound decoders do not seem to take with decoder pro. This is starting to become very frustrating, I do not know if I am doing something wrong, or these decoders are not able to be used with decoder pro.   Thank You  George

I like to think that I am not a hoarder as things are not available where I live when needed so I stock up. Long range plans to have drawbacks and getting out a couple sheets of Homasote it seems that they have developed a distinctive sag 

Hopefully the above picture got your attention! Getting to the age where 'going under the layout' is no longer an option I came up with the solution shown below. After removing rolling stock it takes only a few minutes to flip to vertical, that includes roling out the racks stored under the layout. In updates to follow I will post additional photos of details and progress to my N Scale Mooers Junction Railroad.

This cropped up in the Overweighting topic under Locos and Rollingstock: The subject of train length and scaling down trains to represent trains longer than they are. a 25car train for example representing a 50 car protoype counterpart. The reason for doing, is to fit within the scenes of our layout, as well as the layout's physical capacity. Not many layouts, even clubs have the siding capacity for fifty-100 car trains, (watch, tweleve of you are gonna prove me wrong.