I was admiring a photo of a nicely modeled boxcar in another thread when I noticed it was lettered for "Canadien National". I was pretty sure that should be "Canadian" so I looked it up on google. The official website seemed to be "Canadian" oriented.

Am I being my usual ignorant self or is either spelling of the railroad's name ok?

Charlie

Ok guys, looking to buy my first sound decoder and I don't want to sink a ton of money into this for a "trial" run.

There seems to be quite a few sound decoders available for the $40-$60 range.

MRC and Digitrax comes to mind.

Both offer what I want.  

My question is, have any of you installed one of these decoders and what are the pro's and con's of them.

(Decoder models Digitrax SDN164 and MRC 1716)

It seems I am missing a piece of the pie here. I have a small number of cars on my layout, about 25, all of my cars are weighted to exactly 25 grams and all have Micro-trains trucks and all run perfectly with the exception of my 40' tankers. These cars tend to derail at a higher rate and want to roll to one side or the other no matter how evenly I weight it or how well I try to center the weight, I use modeling clay for the weight since it is easily molded and I can put it exactly where I want it.

hello everyone here are some new scratch builds for my peavine sub layout. first up will be the check in-check out canopy for my IM yard  canopy for my IM yard. the vertical stanchions are evergreen "I" beams. i know they are out of scale but it's all i had at the time of the build. they are not permanently attached so i will replace them at a later date.