Modeling topic

Southern Pacific Covered Gondola

Sun, 2014-11-30 06:33 — ferroequinologist1

Locos - Rolling stock (general)

Southern Pacific Covered Gondola

To Al: Today I present a Quality Craft Kit of a Southern Pacific covered gondola for steel transport. Not many railroads opted for this monster. I painted, lettered and weathered this car a decade or so back. I use this car in service to Granite City Steel on the layout. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

SCARM track planning software v.0.9.26

Sun, 2014-11-30 05:04 — Mixy

I am happy to announce that the new SCARM v. 0.9.26 is ready, coming with the new online help system integrated and the long-awaited Layers feature for easy editing of complex layouts. Read more details here:

SCARM Track Planning Software 0.9.26 Released

Hope you will like the new release ;)

Mixy

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Functionnal Sunbeam Headlight.

Sat, 2014-11-29 17:51 — scribbelt

Hello, I recently purchased an HO Canadian National Athearn Rotary snowplow with tender.

The rotary blade works on DC only, I want to install a Digitrax DH 126 D decoder so I can control the speed of the blade and also being able to turn it off. I also want to install a working sunbeam headlight.

What would you recommend, for the sunbeam itself and also the bulb.

Thank you.

Serge

HO Northwestern Mexico Scene

Sat, 2014-11-29 17:16 — TRENET

Layout tour

Norfolk Southern Modern Operating Session Trackside LIVE! 11-29-1014 .

Sat, 2014-11-29 12:58 — Coal and steel rr

Operations

Norfolk Southern Modern Operating Session Track side LIVE! 11-29-1014

http://youtu.be/euympGFEKcY

Size of Power Districts

Sat, 2014-11-29 10:42 — NoNameRailroad

I'm building a new N-scale layout and I'm new to DCC. I'm ready to start wiring, and I'm trying to plan the number of power districts and breakers that I'll need. How "big" should a power district be? That is, can the size of a power district be defined by the number of turnouts in the district that may cause a short, or the length of track in a district, or any other parameter? Any advice would be helpful.

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The Port of Morehead City in HO scale

Sat, 2014-11-29 10:16 — Brandon F

Welcome to my blog detailing the construction of my HO scale switching layout modeling Morehead City Port, North Carolina, circa 1996-2002

Specific help with MTH HO loco - DCC Ready

Fri, 2014-11-28 19:38 — PAPat

I have a question regarding MTH DCC Ready locomotives. I have just tried 4 locos recently purchased. Two have one polarity and the other two are opposite. I've searched the web and found polarity switches for large-scale, but these locos are HO scale. Anyone have some suggestions? Has anyone seen this problem? I am running DC and would like to be able to run more than one loco at a time.

Thanks in advance,

-bill