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signals at CVTR Model Railroad Club
Let's watch what happens when you don't follow the signals.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0HAJ1CA_Xq4
CTC centralized traffic control at the CVTR
The CTC unit is in ABS mode, let's watch a train going through the layout and with the CTC.
http://www.cuyahogavalleyterminal.org/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5DzodthOr6w
Transfer Terminal Kitbash: The Foundation is Laid
Getting back to work on the Main Project. The foundation is glued down and painted, and the tracks laid. Holes in the baseboard are for the occupancy sensors on the internal tracks.
Downsizing List
LIST CLOSED - The list of sales items has been sent. No new emails are being accepted. I will post other sales throughout the next several months. Thanks for your interest.
Pagosa Creek Timber Company ON3
A great ON3 layout, features complete automation, great scenery, and fantastic structures. This layout will be part of the National Narrow Gauge Convention in Houston, Tx Sept 2015.
The legality of taking pictures or videos from a moving train.
It was snowy, the train was late and once aboard, I started shooting scenery. The conductor stopped me from filming as he stated that it was illegal. I complied and asked him if it was a Federal, State or Local law that would prevent me from shooting scenery - to which he replied: its against the law.
N-Scale Body Mount Coupler Solution
N-scale Body Mount Coupler Solution
I like the concept of body mount couplers on N-scale rolling stock. But I have had issues with negotiating the tighter radius curves on a small layout. Back when I first decided to run N-scale, I designed a larger layout with an average of 22-inch radius curves. Now that my focus of design has switched to a smaller operations based layout, my curve radius has changed to smaller radius measurements. Some as tight as 9 inches.
Easy Model Railroad Inventory Information
I would like to encourage everyone who is using Easy Model Railroad Inventory to make sure they have, either on CD or flash drive, a copy of the installation program. Why you might ask.
History of US Model Railroad Periodicals before World War 2
I am putting together a list of magazines regularly featuring Model Railroad topics before the start of WW2. I would ask you to review this list for completeness and accuracy. Since I was born after WW2, all this information was required second hand from primary resources, such as actual issues of these magazines.
Running DC engine with a DCC system
I am building a layout that will be DCC, however I have a lot of old brass that will take some time to install decoders in.
What I had thought of doing is getting a large decoder, something like a 5 amp G scale decoder and wire that between my NCE system and the track. There by replacing a decoder in the tender with a decoder under the layout.
I would then have a separate DCC wire running from the NCE system to the wire bus. Then I would have a switch where I could toggle between running DCC engines and a DC engine on the layout.
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