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Are you mocking me!
Mocking up some foam core buildings to make sure everything fits.
This is the Green Bay & Westerns Norwood yard roundhouse and back shops, This yard is the main focus on my layout everything starts out from here.
Double Deck Spacing
For those of you who have double or triple deck layouts, what is the suggested spacing between decks. I am still considering adding a top deck to my HO scale layout, but I still need to do more research!
And for those of you who have built multi deck layouts, I would love to here your comments and tips that you discovered along the way. Any advice would be most helpful!
Joe or Charlie
For Joe or Charlie
Looking at Feb Mag issue and usually I go directly to the articles I started at the cover this time and what caught my eye was Don Spiro's layout and what I saw there was as it looks to me is a retaining wall just across the tracks looking like granite cut stone. I believe these are cut pieces of floor linoleum tile painted or stained to look like rock cuts. Can anyone confirm.
Zephyr jump ports as the only throttles?
Before I go off and make an expensive and hard to repair mistake, I thought I'd ask the advice of those who've been there.
The MFTR's New Motive Power
The MFTR is proud to announce the purchase of new motive power for our little railroad. Former Burlington Northern GP15-1 #1391 (soon to be patched to reflect new ownership) can now be seen making daily runs between the towns of Newp
Video, Operation session from 2/18/2012 on Tom Wilsons P&WV & Union RR
A small segment of various trains that where run during a 4 hour op session. Steel mill action along with locals and through freights were run during the session.Video was shot in HD
Hope you enjoy.
Tom Wilson
Easy Model Railroad Inventory Tip #1 Favorite Pictures
There is a section of Easy Model Railroad Inventory named Favorites where you can save the Internet path to your favorite sites and categorize the pictures on your hard drive. I am working on a new building for my layout and wanted it to look really good. There were details that needed to be added that I knew nothing about. The back walls of buildings, scuppers, gas and electric meters, dumpsters. I went to my friend the Internet and Google Images in particular. I found a lot of pictures.
DCC and Flyback diodes on turnout magnets
Hello, I would appreciate some advise about Flyback diodes on turnout magnets. Because recently I fried my DCC system. The damage assessment concluded it was a major electrostatic discharge or some other kind of spike that killed my system. I came to think there may have been 2 reasons: Myself rolling on wheels underneath the layout getting loaded electrostatic (most likely?), and/or magnets in relays and switch machines causing flyback voltage spikes. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback_diode
What is the best way to deal with short circuit in older turnouts with out replacing them?
Having switched to DCC in the last 2 years. I find that most of my 6 axle diesels short out on the turnouts. Usually at the frog. I suspect that the center wheel is making contact with the opposite rail and causing the short. I use automotive bulbs as a short management so most of the time its no problem as the locomotive will get through ok.
Bachmann Spectrum
I have a couple of the older Bachmann Spectrum D8-40C's. They only get used occasionally but when the engines are ran over the layout, the performance is less than satisfactory! At first, I thought it was a dirty wheel issue. After inspecting the wheels and track, I found that everything was spotless and nothing was binding in the drivetrain. The motors and drivetrain sound smooth but the engines still run poorly, with al lot of jerking and stalling.
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