For Christmas I built the World Greatest Hobby layout with Kato track for my Nephews. During later stages in construction I thought I'd break in some of my own locomotives that had never been out ot their boxes. In doing so I observed some peculiar symptoms. After cleaning and lubricating some NOS Proto P2K engines I noticed that there were two spots on the layout where engines would slow then resume their previous speed. Interestingly enough they acted-up close to the two power feeds located 180 apart.

 new Reality Show  :Railroad Alaska season 1 .

Pretty cool .

I see that on you tube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6clQqqYZecE

Enjoy the show

Good day - My wife and I have traveled across the country on Amtrak a number of times and I always take along a scanner to monitor the train's radio communications.  The defect detector reports were always of interest.  

This inspired me to try my hand at creating one for model railroads.  After a few weeks of work  I finally have it (mostly) working and thought it might be of interest to some of you.

Hi there,

This is my first post on this forum.  I am a newbie from South Africa.  Only started getting interested in the hobby at around this time last year.  That is also about how long I have been subscribed to MRH, but I am still so overwhelmed by the skill and expertise of people on here, that I felt too intimidated to post something.