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Installing a layout Spray Booth...
Installing the new spray booth today, this area is external to the layout area, it’s right near the main roller door entrance so will have good ventilation. The base board in the booth is just 8mm MDF board, the table is also height adjustable.
Brushless DC motor tutorial
You might find this free tutorial from Mathworks (makers of Mathcad software) that covers the basics of brushless DC motors and how to control them.
https://www.mathworks.com/videos/brushless-dc-motors-introduction-156472...
It is short and very basic, but provides a good starting point for understanding these machines.
I haven't searched their website, but they well might have other free learning materials dealing with various types of motors and their control.
so many nooks and crannies are part of this hobby,
Super easy wheel painting for model railroad freight and passenger cars
Please check out my new clinic on a super easy way to paint wheels on freight and passenger cars.
Buildings
I started back into model railroading about a year ago. I have a layout (sorry to the realist out there but yes it is on a 4X8 table). I purchased a Union Pacific 906locomotive which I have researched that was used in the 1980s. My question: Where do I look to start as far as structures? Not ready to get too serious (yet?) but I am working to get some buildings that might fir with the 1989s. Where is the best place to look. I've been on modelrtrainstucc.com but it is hard to know "age appropriate" structures.
Super detailed, working, Central Valley Turnout build from start to finish
This is the start of a “How-to” series on building super detailed turnouts from mainly CVT tie strips and Proto87 Stores parts. You can use some of these techniques or all of them, if you wish, to make some highly detailed and functional turnouts. In this series, we will build a turnout panel from start to finish.
Floating Brake location on a siding
How would you accurately simulate or operate setting the hand brake on, say covered hopper railcar(s), at a loading/unloading siding without knowing the size of the railcars or how many are in the setout ? The railcars need to be held in place for coupling/uncoupling as well. In essence this will be a floating and non-fixed braking location on the siding.
Freight Yard Scene,....again
Sorry to bring this subject up AGAIN, but perhaps there are some lessons to be learned,...by myself as well as others.
Switching ops with remote crews: New remote-control panning for riding-on-car view
Now that we can operate my layout with a remote Conductor, Engineer and both at once, I get to railfan my short line at work several sessions a week. It's a whole lot of fun (and a bit spooky) to see the action happening with no one else in the room. 
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