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I am in the process of designing and building a modular layout loosely based on West Side Lumber that ran in Tuolumne County in California.

I will have a sawmill and I am interested in having sounds of lumber being cut. Other scenes like a hobo camp and banjos. Other areas will have woodsman cutting down trees and a spar tree loading skels.

I am interested in your experience on which sound modules/methods you have used to add a variety of background sound to a layout.

--Bill B.

Can somebody point me toward some accurate dimensions for freight car handbrakes?  I am trying to draw some (both wheel and gear box), and I'm not finding a lot of information beyond the fact that the wheel is 22" diameter.

I suppose I could go out and measure some, but if the information can be had from the comfort and safety of the house, I'd much rather do that!

Background

I have 16 Soundtraxx equipped locomotives to which I have added TCS KA-1 Keep Alive modules.  I also have one TCS WOW Sound locomotive with a KA2.  All have worked great for six months on my Digitrax controlled layout, with 1 DCS100 and 2 DB150s controlling three power districts.  The controllers are all set to “N Scale” power.